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Tag Name "Confers" (41)

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Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds.
Rene Daumal
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It has always seemed to me that any man is a better man for being a hunter. This sport confers a certain constant alertness, and develops a certain ruggedness of character....Moreover, it allies us to the pioneer past. In a deep sense, this great land of ours was won for us by hunters.
Archibald Rutledge
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Most writers agree on the fact that Zen is not to be understood but to be lived and far from being incompatible with the requirements of everyday life, Zen confers on it its own full revealing value.
Robert Linssen
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Nothing is more hackneyed than the liberal dogma that shock value confers automatic importance on an artwork.
Camille Paglia
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He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
Tertullian
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Receiving the authority of the priesthood by the laying on of hands is an important beginning, but it is not enough. Ordination confers authority, but righteousness is required to act with power as we strive to lift souls, to teach and testify, to bless and counsel, and to advance the work of salvation.
David A. Bednar
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To have faith is to believe in truth, believe that truth confers special power on those lucky enough to get a little insight, and to know in our hearts that all these things come from God, which is why we should never get too cocky about our successes.
Tony Snow
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The Lord confers great honor on his servants when he brings them suffering.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging... This confers the tone and bearing of genuine reminiscences. He must not be afraid to return again and again to the same matter to scatter it as one scatters earth, to turn it over as one turns over soil.
Walter Benjamin
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Nothing has value in itself. The consumer confers value on it by seeking to acquire it. Hence, the value of a thing is never objective, but always subjective.
Faustino Ballve
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People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity, than the discovery of a new star.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem on others.
Juvenal
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When you learn to take responsibility for yourselves, then you will start taking responsibility for the planet. The planet is being destroyed by your abandonment of responsibility. You assume that you own the planet. And ownership confers upon you the right to do as you like. You do not own this beautiful planet. You are simply a guest here.
Leonard Jacobson
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Youth is always a little offended to find itself not preferred: it cannot help feeling that when it admits the old to its society, it confers a benefit.
Margery Sharp
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If women envy men, we can now see that it's because of the privileges their anatomy confers and not the anatomy itself.
Martha Roth
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The Theory of Relativity confers an absolute meaning on a magnitude which in classical theory has only a relative significance: the velocity of light. The velocity of light is to the Theory of Relativity as the elementary quantum of action is to the Quantum Theory: it is its absolute core.
Max Planck
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Now, of all the benefits that virtue confers upon us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.
Michel de Montaigne
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The term intellectual is used conventionally to refer to people who happen to have unusual opportunities in this regard, and as always, opportunity confers moral responsibility.
Noam Chomsky
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He is great who confers the most benefits.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Children, who have so much to learn in so short a time, had involved the tendency to trust adults to instruct them in the collective knowledge of our species, and this trust confers survival value. But it also makes children vulnerable to being tricked and adults who exploit this vulnerability should be deeply ashamed.
Rebecca Goldstein
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... there are many to whom money has no personal appeal, but who can be tempted by the power it confers.
Agatha Christie
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A favor well bestowed is almost as great an honor to him who confers it as to him who receives it.
Richard Steele
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The man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the same coin.
Aristotle
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