Quotes:It is now several months since I promised to give you my reasons for preferring the Bible as a schoolbook to all other compositions. Before I state my arguments, I shall assume the five following propositions:
1 . That Christianity is the only true and perfect religion; and that in proportion as mankind adopts its principles and obeys its precepts they will be wise and happy.
2. That a better knowledge of this religion is to be acquired by reading the Bible than in any other way.
3. That the Bible
contains more knowledge necessary to man in his present state than any other book in the world.
4. That knowledge is most durable, and religious instruction most useful, when imparted in early life.
5. That the Bible, when not read in schools, is seldom read in any subsequent period of life.
- Benjamin Rush, Essays, pp. 93-113, 'A Defence of the Use of the Bible as a School Book'.
View quotes by Benjamin RushAn error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it
contains.
View quotes by Henri-Frederic AmielEvery legend, moreover,
contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.
View quotes by James BaldwinDublin university
contains the cream of Ireland: Rich and thick.
View quotes by Samuel BeckettReligion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself
contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life.
View quotes by Paul TillichA short saying often
contains much wisdom.
View quotes by SophoclesWhen the strong box
contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.
View quotes by PlutarchThe present
contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
View quotes by Henri BergsonThe good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book
contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.
View quotes by Umberto EcoThat gloomy outside, like a rusty chest,
contains the shoring treasure of a soul resolved and brave.
View quotes by John Dryden'Passing away' is written on the world and all the world
containsView quotes by Felicia HemansA house is no home unless it
contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
View quotes by Margaret FullerEvery problem
contains within itself the seeds of its own solution.
View quotes by Stanley ArnoldFor me, Schubert
contains the world.
View quotes by Janet BakerThe universe
contains vastly more order than life on Earth could ever demand. All those distant galaxies, irrelevant for our existence, seem as equally well ordered as our own. [Entropy in the universe]
View quotes by Paul DaviesA great library
contains the diary of the human race.
View quotes by George DawsonA wise man's question
contains half the answer. [Unfortunately the other 50% is harder to come by!]
View quotes by Solomon GabirolBe like the fountain that overflows,
not like the cistern that merely
contains.
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