Quotes about Basis
Thinking for a Change shares the way that I think on a daily basis. My wife, Margaret, says it has more of my DNA than any of my other books.
- John Maxwell
I am influenced more than ever before by the conviction that social equality is the only basis of human happiness.
- Nelson Mandela
Our individual testimonies of these truths are the basis of our faith. We must nurture them. We must cultivate them. We can never forsake them. We can never lay them aside. Without them we are nothing. With them we are everything.
- Gordon Hinckley
But just as was true in understanding flight, problems in our lives don't always map neatly to theories on a one-to-one basis.
- Clayton M. Christensen
Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles he can only discover them.
- Thomas Paine
The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.
- Oscar Wilde
The working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the most numerous.
- Abraham Lincoln
The Trinity is the model of life as it is intended to be in human existence, the basis for Christian community.
- Dallas Willard
Knowledge is the basis of belief, and, when it is, it gives the belief a very different bearing upon life.
- Dallas Willard
Love for the Lord, love for His servants the missionaries. Missionary work is a work of love and trust, and it has to be done on that basis.
- Gordon Hinckley
An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.
- CS Lewis
Prayer is the beginning and the end, the source and the fruit, the core and the content, the basis and the goal of all peacemaking.
- Henri Nouwen