Pastoral Resources

I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.

Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.

The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.

Know how to behave at a fine restaurant, which is a telltale measure of social maturity.

Whole areas of knowledge and information have been defined into nonexistence because the system cannot know, understand, control, or measure them.

You measure a government by how few people need help.

You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.

The ability to conduct is a gift of God with which few have been endowed in full measure.

It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.

It's pretty hard to measure influence of written or visual material.

There's no preventative measure between the Palestinians, between those terrorists to the state of Israel.

Think of submitting our measure to the advice of politicians! I would as soon submit the subject of the equality of a goose to a fox.

We think of violence as being conflict and fighting and wars and so forth, but the most ongoing horrific measure of violence is in the horrible poverty of the Third World... and the poverty in the United States as well.

I think the measure of your success to a certain extent will be the amount of things written about you that aren't true.

Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

No man can in any measure resemble the scripture saints.

City governments ought to be abolished, if only as a public health measure.

The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.

That said, ID does not qualify as science because it gives us nothing to test or measure. Science requires replicable tests involving measurable variables.

If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.