And I remember in frequent discourses with my master concerning the nature of manhood, in other parts of the world, having occasion to talk of lying and false representationà For he argued thus; that the use of speech was to make us understand one another, and to receive information of facts; now if any one said the thing which was not, these ends were defeatedà àhe leaves me worse than in ignorance, for I am led to believe a thing black when it is white, and short when it is long.
Quotes about discourses (15 Quotes)
So woe on that day to those who reject (the truth), Those who sport entering into vain discourses.
The way we make sense of a realistic text is through the same broad ideological frame as the way we make sense of our social experience or rather, the way we are made sense of by the discourses of our culture.
I am more afraid that this people have so much confidence in their leaders that they will not inquire for themselves of God whether they are led by him. I am fearful they settle down in a state of blind self security. Let every man and woman know, by the whispering of the Spirit of God to themselves, whether their leaders are walking in the path the Lord dictates, or not.( Discourses of Brigham Young, sel. John A. Widtsoe 1954, 135.)
These stories and sayings contain patterns, like blueprints, for various inner exercises in attention, mental posture, and higher perception, summarized in extremely brief vignettes enabling the individual to hold entire universes of thought in mind all at once, without running through doctrinal discourses or disrupting ordinary consciousness of everyday affairs.
O' thinkest thou we shall ever meet again I doubt it not and all these woes shall serve For sweet discourses in our times to come.
There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.
Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.
Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses.
Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment that background which the painter may not daub, be he master or bungler, and which, however awkward a figure we may have made in the foreground, remains ever our inviolable asylum, where no indignity can assail, no personality can disturb us.
Like those before you they were stronger than you in power and more abundant in wealth and children, so they enjoyed their portion thus have you enjoyed your portion as those before you enjoyed their portion and you entered into vain discourses like the vain discourses in which entered those before you. These are they whose works are null in this world and the hereafter, and these are they who are the losers.
Contention is inseparable from creating knowledge. It is not contention we should try to avoid, but discourses that attempt to suppress contention.
Every soul is held in pledge for what it earns, Except the people of the right hand, In gardens, they shall ask each other About the guilty What has brought you into hell They shall say We were not of those who prayed And we used not to feed the poor And we used to enter into vain discourse with those who entered into vain discourses.
I heard many discourses which were good for the soul, but I could not discover in the case of any one of the teachers that his life was worthy of his words.
And they do not assign to Allah the attributes due to Him when they say Allah has not revealed anything to a mortal. Say Who revealed the Book which Musa brought, a light and a guidance to men, which you make into scattered writings which you show while you conceal much And you were taught what you did not know, (neither) you nor your fathers. Say Allah then leave them sporting in their vain discourses.