Quotes on Doe

If one knows only what one is told, one does not know enough to be able to arrive at a well-balanced decision.

The fact that your voice, amplified to the degree where it reaches from one end of the country to the other, does not confer upon you greater wisdom than when your voice reached only from one end of the bar to the other.

We Christians must look sharp that our Christianity does not simply refine our sins without removing them.

Man doesnt have the patience or the power to wait. But God does. He has all eternity to accomplish His purposes.

Language does not always have to wear a tie and lace-up shoes.

One does not play the piano with one's fingers, one plays the piano with one's mind.

The criterion and rule of the true is to have made it. Accordingly, our clear and distinct idea of the mind cannot be a criterion of the mind itself, still less of other truths. For while the mind perceives itself, it does not make itself.

Everyone in Life does Exactly what they Know How to Do Given the Conditions of their Lives

To one degree or another we all struggle with selfishness. Since it is so common, why worry about selfishness anyway? Because selfishness is really self-destruction in slow motion. No wonder the Prophet Joseph Smith urged, "Let every selfish feeling be not only buried, but annihilated" (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p. 178). Hence annihilation - not moderation - is the destination! . . . Meekness is the real cure, for it does not merely mask selfishness but dissolves it!

When you sell options, you get paid for assuming risk. That can be a profitable business, but it does not mix well with the risks inherent in a leveraged portfolio.

When does a building actually become a built?

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.

A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.

The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.

The greatest danger that besets us does not come from believers or atheists; it comes from those who, under the guise of religion, science or reason, imagine that we can free ourselves from the limitations of human nature and perfect the human species.

As the same fire assumes different shapes When it consumes objects differing in shape, So does the one Self take the shape Of every creature in whom he is present.

No matter what anyone says or does, my task is to be emerald, my color undiminished.

Being a lady does not require silence.

No theology is genuinely Christian which does not arise from and focus on the cross.

The mid-day sun is too much for most eyes; one is dazzled even with its reflection. Be careful that too broad and high an aim does not paralyze your effort and clog your springs of action.