#goodness

We also learn that this country and the Western world have no monopoly of goodness and truth and scholarship, we begin to appreciate the ingredients that are indispensable to making a better world. In a life of learning that is, perhaps, the greatest lesson of all. ↗

— John Hope Franklin

#appreciate #begin #better #better world #country

Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness. ↗

— Billy Graham

#goodness #great #man #needs #other

The Christian churches were offered two things: the spirit of Jesus and the idiotic morality of Paul, and they rejected the higher inspiration... Following Paul, we have turned the goodness of love into a fiend and degraded the crowning impulse of our being into a capital sin. ↗

— Frank Harris

#capital #christian #churches #crowning #degraded

Above all, it is not decency or goodness of gentleness that impresses the Middle East, but strength. ↗

— Meir Kahane

#decency #east #gentleness #goodness #impresses

My goodness, my hair's been talked about by a million people, you know? It sort of goes with the territory. ↗

— Carly Fiorina

#been #goes #goodness #hair #know

It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man. ↗

— Barbara Walters

#be nice #believe #better #better world #compassion

Intellectual freedom begins when one says with Socrates that he knows that he knows nothing, and then goes on to add: Do you know what you don’t know and therefore what you should know? If your answer is affirmative and humble, then you are your own teacher, you are making your own assignment, and you will be your own best critic. ↗

— Scott Buchanan

#education #goodness #intellectual #truth #beauty

There are very few misanthropes, thank goodness! ↗

— Ivor Novello

#goodness #thank #thank goodness #very

Central to America's rise to global leadership is our Judeo-Christian tradition with the vision of the goodness and possibilities of every human life. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#central #christian tradition #every #global #goodness

Life was small but good. (15) ↗

— Francesca Lia Block

#life #simplicity #small #life