It is so rare to meet with a man outdoors who cherishes a worthy thought in his mind, which is independent of the labor of his han...ds. Behind every man's busy-ness there should be a level of undisturbed serenity and industry, as within the reef encircling a coral isle there is always an expanse of still water, where the depositions are going on which will finally raise it above the surface.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... when you do get a job everybody says, "Well, they wanted a black woman," which necessarily puts you on a level where you have ...to prove yourself above being a woman and being black.... Now, I would say, in certain situations, it helped me simply because I was mildly attractive, not because I was black or a woman. That gets you more mileage than anything else.... God help you if you're not an attractive woman.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Helping children at a level of genuine intellectual inquiry takes imagination on the part of the adult. Even more, it takes the co...urage to become a resource in unfamiliar areas of knowledge and in ones for which one has no taste. But parents, no less than teachers, must respect a child's mind and not exploit it for their own vanity or ambition, or to soothe their own anxiety.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Preschoolers sound much brighter and more knowledgeable than they really are, which is why so many parents and grandparents are so... sure their progeny are gifted and super-bright. Because children's questions sound so mature and sophisticated, we are tempted to answer them at a level of abstraction far beyond the child's level of comprehension. That is a temptation we should resist.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You will find the most pronounced hatred of other nations on the lowest cultural levels. There is, though, a level where the hatre...d disappears completely and where one so to speak stands above the nations and where one experiences fortune or misfortune of a neighboring country as if they had happened to one's own.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splend...id.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
At cheaper and nearer seats of Learning parents with slender incomes may place their sons in a course of education putting them on... a level with the sons of the Richest.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the alti...tude of its "great intellects."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Those who profess contempt for men, and put them on a level with beasts, yet wish to be admired and believed by men, and contradic...t themselves by their own feelings--their nature, which is stronger than all, convincing them of the greatness of man more forcibly than reason convinces them of his baseness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Every man feels that perception gives him an invincible belief of the existence of that which he perceives; and that this belief i...s not the effect of reasoning, but the immediate consequence of perception. When philosophers have wearied themselves and their readers with their speculations upon this subject, they can neither strengthen this belief, nor weaken it; nor can they shew how it is produced. It puts the philosopher and the peasant upon a level; and neither of them can give any other reason for believing his senses, than that he finds it impossible for him to do otherwise.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »