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Scholar Inspirational Quotes (246)

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If you had one word to describe the root of all this rage, it's humiliation.
Hamza Yusuf
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By writing I put order in the world, give it a handle so I can grasp it.
Gloria E. Anzaldúa
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[T]hou canst not think worse of me than I do of myself.
Robert Burton
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The question to be asked of all teaching is not, 'Is it new?' but 'Is it true?'
F. F. Bruce
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The idea of going on a spiritual journey is really part of the DNA of India itself.
Diana L. Eck
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But God, who is the beginning of all things, is not to be regarded as a composite being, lest perchance there should be found to exist elements prior to the beginning itself, out of which everything is composed, whatever that be which is called composite.
Origen
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The chain of events leading to man commenced suddenly and sharply, at a definite moment in time, in a flash of light and energy.
Robert Jastrow
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People write or speak sentences in order to produce an effect, and the success of a sentence is measured by the degree to which the desired effect has been achieved.
Stanley Fish
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To walk into the Jefferson memorial is to be in a temple of the pure idolatry of reason
Scot McKnight
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The Bible is true, and some of it actually happened.
Marcus Borg
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Just as you can practice three-word sentences or sentences that travel across time zones, so can you practice writing sentences that breathe unshakable conviction.
Stanley Fish
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There are two great things that we need to find in life: one is love, probably the most important, and the second is work, and they compete with one another from time to time.
Diana L. Eck
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The mistake...was attributed in part to the fact that employees called the 3-year note 'Losh' and the 5-year note 'Bosh'. The comic mixing of 'Loshes' and 'Boshes' sounded more like a Dr. Seuss children's book than a cutting-edge risk-management operation.
Frank Partnoy
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They [i.e. ambitious men] may not cease, but as a dog in a wheel, a bird in a cage, or a squirrel in a chain, so Budaeus compares them they climb and climb still, with much labour, but never make an end, never at the top.
Robert Burton
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The idea - the core idea of humanism - is that the act of reading about great deeds will lead you to imitate them.
Stanley Fish
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We are built on a structure of the freedom of religion and the non-establishment of religion. That really is a pretty sturdy rudder for the U.S.
Diana L. Eck
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It is important to show people ways that we can reclaim Christianity from some of the misunderstandings of our time.
Marcus Borg
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Melancholy can be overcome only by melancholy.
Robert Burton
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Indecency in anything spoils it. And modesty in anything adorns it.
Ibn Majah
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All the truly deep people have at the core of their being the genius to be simple or to know how to seek simplicity
Martin E. Marty
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That which is called God's wrath, and anger, is a means of discipline.
Origen
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Everyone’s a believer when things are going fine. The real faith is when one becomes patient with tribulations.
Hamza Yusuf
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Some things have changed, but there's a lot of what went on in the Washington administration that's just been done ever since because that's the way we do things.
Kevin Gutzman
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Living in a state of psychic unrest, in a Borderland, is what makes poets write and artists create.
Gloria E. Anzaldúa
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