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To disarm a zealot, teach him truth by precept, and mildness by e... by Al-Kindi

To disarm a zealot, teach him truth by precept, and mildness by example.

Al-Kindi
mildness teach example

It would scarcely be acceptable, for example, to ask in the course of an ordinary conversation what our society holds to be the purpose of work.

Alain de Botton
purpose example ordinary

I don't ask employers, for example, to like blacks or Jews or native people; I ask employers to hire the qualified members of thesegroups whether they likethem or not.

Alan Borovoy
employers example people

It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants. It has also been said that the software industry is an example of midgets standing on the toes of other midgets.

Alan Cooper
discipline technology example

For example, Americans seem reluctant to take on Shakespeare because you don't think you're very good at it - which is rubbish. You're missing out here.

Alan Cumming
example missing thinking

Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.

Alan Kay
real example needs

My only problem with fans is when they turn pro. For example, when all the professional writers were fired by DC in the '60s, they brought in a generation of comic book fans who would have paid to have written these stories.

Alan Moore
fans example book

Of course, Marxism is an example of what Carl Popper would have called a 'World Three' structure, in that it's got immense power as an idea, but you couldn't actually hold up anything in the world and say: 'this is Marxism'.

Alan Moore
example world ideas

We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.

Alan Watts
example inspiring thinking

What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously. A convention is a social convenience, as, for example, money ... but it is absurd to take money too seriously, to confuse it with real wealth ... In somewhat the same way, thoughts, ideas and words are "coins" for real things.

Alan Watts
real example ideas

Philosophers, for example, often fail to recognize that their remarks about the universe apply also to themselves and their remarks. If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so.

Alan Watts
philosopher failing example

What are we saying when we say now, something is holy? That means you should take a different attitude to what you are doing than if you were, for example, doing it for kicks.

Alan Watts
example attitude mean

What will be left of the power of example if it is proved that capital punishment has another power, and a very real one, which degrades men to the point of shame, madness, and murder?

Albert Camus
real example men

What the individual can do is to give a fine example, and to have the courage to uphold ethical values .. in a society of cynics.

Albert Einstein
words-of-wisdom example giving

History is littered with examples of men who would become gods, but only one example of God becoming Man.

Albert Einstein
becoming example men
A good example has twice the value of good advice by Albert Schweitzer

A good example has twice the value of good advice

Albert Schweitzer
values example advice
Set a great example.  Someone may imitate it. by Albert Schweitzer

Set a great example. Someone may imitate it.

Albert Schweitzer
example may
Not only is example the best way to teach, it is the only way. by Albert Schweitzer

Not only is example the best way to teach, it is the only way.

Albert Schweitzer
earning-it example way

There are, for example, exemptions in FOIA in which the government can withhold certain kinds of information, and the courts have recognized that there is certain documentation that do deserve protection, that certain privileges do apply and do deserve protection.

Alberto Gonzales
documentation government example

Woody Allen is kind of the one example I don't have. Because the way he works and the amount of shooting time that I did on that film, I didn't really get to know him, so he kind of stays as "Woody Allen" to me.

Alden Ehrenreich
shooting example way
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