A Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Commonplace minds usually condemn what is beyond the reach of their understanding.
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Israel will never get true security and safety through oppressing another people. A true peace can ultimately be built only on justice. We condemn the violence of suicide bombers, and we condemn the corruption of young minds taught hatred; but we also condemn the violence of military incursions in the occupied lands, and the inhumanity that won't let ambulances reach the injured.
It is the habit of mediocre minds to condemn all that is beyond their grasp.
Second-rate minds usually condemn everything beyond their grasp.
Minds of moderate caliber ordinarily condemn everthing which is beyond their range.
Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.
Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
The pure air and dazzling snow belong to things beyond the reach of all personal feeling, almost beyond the reach of life.
I think our minds respond to things beyond this world. Take beauty: it's a very mysterious thing, isn't it? I think it's a response in our minds to perfection. It's too bad, people not realizing that their minds expand beyond this world.
Go beyond yourself and reach out to other people with a sincere love, respect, caring, and understanding of their needs.
The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will.
To continue to condemn only brings condemnation, then, for self. This does not mean that self's activity should be passive, but rather being constant in prayer-knowing and taking, knowing and understanding that he that is faithful is not given a burden beyond that he is able to bear . . .
The pure air and dazzling snow belong to things beyond the reach of all personal feeling, almost beyond the reach of life. Yet such things are a part of our life, neither the least noble nor the most terrible.
Peace does not rest in the charters and covenants alone. It lies in the hearts and minds of all people. So let us not rest all our hopes on parchment and on paper, let us strive to build peace, a desire for peace, a willingness to work for peace in the hearts and minds of all of our people. I believe that we can. I believe the problems of human destiny are not beyond the reach of human beings.
The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.
No, the people standing before Christ and Pilate during the judgment scene do not condemn an entire race for the death of Christ anymore than the actions of Mussolini condemn all Italians, or the heinous crimes of Stalin condemn all Russians.
Ordinary men commonly condemn what is beyond them.
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