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Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity.
Karen Armstrong
Religion
People
Ego
Religious
Religious People
Give
Rather
Identity
Up
Than
Egotism
Endorse
Often
Want
Prefer
Compassionate
Right
Why would I retire? Sit at home and watch TV? No thanks. I'd rather be out playing.
Paul McCartney
Home
Sit
Thanks
Out
TV
Would
Rather
Retire
Why
Watch
Playing
Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.
Plato
Wisdom
Knowledge
Justice
Ought
Rather
Without
Cunning
Than
Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.
Pythagoras
Soul
Strong
Be Strong
Rather
Than
Body
Choose
Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the imperfections of others.
Saint Ignatius
Yourself
Own
Others
Rather
Imperfections
Contemplating
Occupy
Than
Your
I think every single imperfection adds to your beauty. I'd rather be imperfect than perfect.
Sonam Kapoor
Beauty
Single
Every
Think
Adds
Rather
Imperfect
Perfect
Imperfection
Than
Your
There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over. We urgently need to develop direct connections to the brain so that computers can add to human intelligence rather than be in opposition.
Stephen Hawking
Intelligence
Will
Add
Danger
Direct
Rather
Take
Computers
Develop
Over
Real
Opposition
Brain
Than
Human
Urgently
Human Intelligence
Connections
Need
Cognitive psychology tells us that the unaided human mind is vulnerable to many fallacies and illusions because of its reliance on its memory for vivid anecdotes rather than systematic statistics.
Steven Pinker
Memory
Mind
Systematic
Statistics
Reliance
Tells
Anecdotes
Vivid
Rather
Because
Vulnerable
Than
Human
Psychology
Us
Human Mind
Many
Illusions
Cognitive
When your maturity is derived from circumstantial factors other than faith, your level of maturity would continue to fluctuate rather than being stable. This is why I am enabled to maintain a balance and stable approach to the challenges that come my way every day. I am not moved by what people say or do concerning my relationship with God.
T. B. Joshua
God
Faith
Day
Relationship
Challenges
Balance
Every Day
People
Maturity
Every
Fluctuate
Other
Approach
Way
Say
Would
People Say
Rather
Factors
Maintain
Come
Concerning
Am
Continue
Than
Stable
Moved
Being
Your
Derived
Why
Level
Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.
T. D. Jakes
Forgiveness
Yourself
Past
About
Rather
Empowering
Than
Your
Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
Viktor E. Frankl
Life
Man
Recognize
Must
Rather
He
His
Ultimately
Meaning
Meaning Of
Ask
Asked
Should
Who
People who have a sense of self-efficacy bounce back from failure; they approach things in terms of how to handle them rather than worrying about what can go wrong.
Albert Bandura
Failure
People
Sense
Approach
Back
Worrying
About
Rather
Wrong
Bounce
Terms
How
Go
Handle
Than
Them
Who
Things
Practice rather than preach. Make of your life an affirmation, defined by your ideals, not the negation of others. Dare to the level of your capability then go beyond to a higher level.
Alexander Haig
Life
Practice
Preach
Negation
Others
Defined
Dare
Rather
Higher
Higher Level
Ideals
Beyond
Make
Go
Affirmation
Than
Capability
Then
Your
Level
I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.
Alexander Smith
Song
Victory
Would
Memorial Day
Rather
Remembered
Than
Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.
Alice Koller
Alone
Achievement
Solitude
Own
Others
Solitary
Immersed
Rather
Absence
Well
Well-Being
Because
Won
Than
Being
Being Alone
Choice
Your
Fullness
Aware
Presence
I'd rather not have anything than be a liar.
Alicia Keys
Liar
Rather
Than
Anything
How does one know if she has forgiven? You tend to feel sorrow over the circumstance instead of rage, you tend to feel sorry for the person rather than angry with him. You tend to have nothing left to say about it all.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Forgiveness
Angry
You
Sorry
Nothing
Rage
Say
Circumstance
About
Rather
Tend
Instead
Feel
Over
Know
She
Sorrow
Him
Does
How
Left
Than
Person
Forgiven
We must not be wise and prudent according to the flesh. Rather, we must be simple, humble and pure.
Francis of Assisi
Wise
Humble
Simple
Pure
Must
Rather
According
Prudent
Flesh
We only live once, but once is enough if we do it right. Live your life with class, dignity, and style so that an exclamation, rather than a question mark signifies it!
Gary Ryan Blair
Life
Class
Dignity
Style
Live
Enough
Mark
Once
Rather
Only
Exclamation
Question
Question Mark
Than
Your
Right
The strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them.
Gene Roddenberry
Strength
Fight
Ability
Rather
Prevent
Civilization
Them
Measured
Wars
What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Fear
Understanding
Controlling
Other
Running
Running Away
About
Rather
Directly
Contact
Come
Suppressing
Learn
How
Escape
Than
Any
Means
Away
Watch
Resistance
Needed
We are domesticated animals, revolving in a cage which we have built for ourselves - with its contentions, wranglings, its impossible political leaders, its gurus who exploit our self-conceit and their own with great refinement or rather crudely.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Great
Political
Impossible
Animals
Own
Our
Ourselves
Rather
Cage
Leaders
Built
Refinement
Political Leaders
Domesticated
Revolving
Which
Exploit
Who
I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God's will.
Joan of Arc
God
Will
Would
Something
Rather
Sin
Know
Than
Die
Which
Against
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
John Stuart Mill
Happiness
Seek
Rather
Attempting
Learned
Limiting
Than
Them
Satisfy
Desires
Rather be dead than cool.
Kurt Cobain
Rather
Dead
Than
Cool
God is the name people give to the reason we are here. But I think that reason is the laws of physics rather than someone with whom one can have a personal relationship. An impersonal God.
Stephen Hawking
God
Relationship
People
Physics
Think
Someone
Give
Laws
Rather
Impersonal
Name
Than
Personal
Personal Relationship
Reason
Whom
Here
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