Steinbeck wrote about the Depression and how hard people's lives were, but he also makes so much comment about itinerant farm workers and race relations. He does a wonderful job illuminating character. He records the best and worst of human behavior. If you're looking for a window back to this time, this is it.
Quotes about illuminating (16 Quotes)
Our educational system is like an automobile which has strong rear lights, brightly illuminating the past. But looking forward things are barely discernible.
It's all about, I think, increasing awareness, breaking away from the usual sort of news reel approach to human disasters, if you like illuminating and exposing these conditions from a different angle.
Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.
Therefore, I reasoned that study of the cell cycle responsible for the reproduction of cells was important and might even be illuminating about the nature of life.
It's not a beauty contest. It is a contest about health. It was very illuminating to me. I thought I knew what I needed to know.
When I'm alone at home, I really prefer to listen to Wagner's orchestral music rather than any vocal music. I find it illuminating not to have to pay attention to voices in the recordings.
Science and art may invent splendid modes of illuminating the apartments of the opulent but these are all poor and worthless compared with the common light which the sun sends into all our windows, which pours freely, impartially over hill and valley, which kindles daily the eastern and western sky and so the common lights of reason, and conscience, and love, are of more worth and dignity than the rare endowments which give celebrity to a few.
YOKE, n. An implement, madam, to whose Latin name, jugum, we owe one of the most illuminating words in our language --a word that defines the matrimonial situation with precision, point and poignancy. A thousand apologies for withholding it.
(Those are they) who said Surely Allah has enjoined us that we should not believe in any apostle until he brings us an offering which the fire consumes. Say Indeed, there came to you apostles before me with clear arguments and with that which you demand why then did you kill them if you are truthful But if they reject you, so indeed were rejected before you apostles who came with clear arguments and scriptures and the illuminating book.
Well, it's because I gladly acknowledge some ideas that are part of process theology, but which I think are not tied to all the details of process thought, and are very illuminating and helpful.
You know when you walk into a dark room without a light you can't tell what is truly in it, riches or stones. This is much like life, you need to be an illuminating torch and reveal the hidden treasures of the world
Giving to others selflessly and anonymously, radiating light throughout the world and illuminating your own darkness, your virtue becomes a sanctuary for yourself and all beings. That is what is meant by embodying the Tao.
While we understand that what were dealing with is a long term condition that will have to be dealt with, monitored and treated for probably the rest of my life, we are terribly encouraged to have come so far, so fast, ... It has certainly been the most trying experience of our lives and yet has proven to be one of the most illuminating as well.
I see the situation as follows. There are various philosophical views, mutually incompatible, which cannot be dismissed or simply rejected. Philosophy's output is the basketful of these admissible views, all together. One delimiting strategy would be to modify and shave these views, capturing what is true in each, to make them compatible parts of one new view. This book puts forward its explanations in a very tentative spirit not only do I not ask you to believe that they are correct, I do not think it important for me to believe them correct, either. Still I do believe, and hope you will find it so, that these proposed explanations are illuminating and worth considering, that they are worth surpassing also that the process of seeking and elaborating explanations, being open to new possibilities, the new wonderings and wanderings, the free explanation, is itself a delight.
And among men there is he who disputes about Allah without knowledge and without guidance and without an illuminating book, Turning away haughtily that he may lead (others) astray from the way of Allah for him is disgrace in this world, and on the day of resurrection We will make him taste the punishment of burning This is due to what your two hands have sent before, and because Allah is not in the least unjust to the servants.