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John Templeton

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It is nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.


— John Templeton


#important #more #nice

I focus on spiritual wealth now, and I'm busier, more enthusiastic, and more joyful than I have ever been.


— John Templeton


#busier #enthusiastic #ever #focus #i

If we become increasingly humble about how little we know, we may be more eager to search.


— John Templeton


#become #eager #how #humble #increasingly

The idea that an individual can find God is terribly self-centered. It is like a wave thinking it can find the sea.


— John Templeton


#god #idea #individual #like #sea

I'm really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that we have toward the people in the field of science two centuries ago.


— John Templeton


#back #centuries #century #convinced #descendants

If you are not egotistical, you will welcome the opportunity to learn more.


— John Templeton


#learn #more #opportunity #welcome #will

The correct description is that we try every day to become more humble when we talk about divinity, we try to realize how little we know and how open minded we should be.


— John Templeton


#become #correct #day #description #divinity

Work at being a humble person.


— John Templeton


#humble #person #work

A doctor today would never prescribe the treatments my grandfather used in the Confederate Army, but a minister says pretty much the same thing today that a minister would have said back then.


— John Templeton


#back #confederate #doctor #grandfather #minister

Anybody who had come up with a new concept would have been under suspicion for being out of step with the tradition or out of step with the teachings of the church.


— John Templeton


#been #being #church #come #concept






About John Templeton






Did you know about John Templeton?

S. His Templeton Growth Ltd. Philanthropy
As a philanthropist Templeton establiJohn Templetond
the John Templeton Foundation;
the Templeton Prize for Progress Toward Research or Discoveries about Spiritual Realities in 1972;
the Templeton Library in Sewanee Tennessee;
the Templeton College of the University of Oxford (by endowing the Oxford Centre for Management Studies to become a full college of the university having as a focus business and management studies).

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