Quotes on World

The ordinary method of education is to imprint ideas and opinions, in the strict sense of the word, prejudices, on the mind of the child, before it has had any but a very few particular observations. It is thus that he afterwards comes to view the world and gather experience through the medium of those ready-made ideas, rather than to let his ideas be formed for him out of his own experience of life, as they ought to be.

Ah, children, pity level-crossing keepers, pity lock-keepers - pity lighthouse-keepers - pity all the keepers of this world (pity even school teachers), caught between their conscience and the bleak horizon.

There are few people who think what a solemn thing it is to be a Christian. I guess there is not a believer in the world who knows what a miracle it is to be kept a believer.

Prayer bends omnipotence of heaven to your desire. Prayer moves the hand that moves the world.

By improving yourself, the world is made better. Be not afraid of growing too slowly. Be afraid only of standing still.

May blessings and happiness attend every step of your progress in this world.

All progression is in the relative world.

If I don't show the world growth, how are we going to grow?

Truth for anyone is a very complex thing. For a writer, what you leave out says as much as those things you include. What lies beyond the margin of the text? The photographer frames the shot; writers frame their world.

Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.

If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.

Do not have Jesus Christ on your lips, and the world in your heart.

If you're not the best in the world at what you do, then you have to get better.

The fundamental factor of self-deception is this constant desire to be something in this world and in the world hereafter.

Enlightenment is the only real antidote to the world's despair.

Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being.

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

We all dream things into being; you imagine yourself having a child, and then you have a child. An inventor will think of something in his mind and then make it actual. So things are often passing from the imagined realm into the real world.

There is a widespread difficulty in the Muslim world, which has to do with how the people are taught about examining their own history. A whole range of stuff has been placed off limits.

I was very happy in Bombay. I was good at school. There was no reason to change anything. I suppose it must have been some spirit of adventure, of wanting to see the world.

But there's one thing we must all be clear about: terrorism is not the pursuit of legitimate goals by some sort of illegitimate means. Whatever the murderers may be trying to achieve, creating a better world certainly isn't one of their goals. Instead they are out to murder innocent people.