Parable
noun
A simple story with a moral or spiritual lesson.
The story of the Good Samaritan is a famous parable from the Bible.
noun
A simple story with a moral or spiritual lesson.
The story of the Good Samaritan is a famous parable from the Bible.
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Pro Tip 1/3Moral Lesson
Parables always include a lesson about how to act or think morally.
In the parable, the protagonist's honesty despite poverty taught us integrity.
Pro Tip 2/3Simple Story
Though parables are short and simple, their meanings are profound and thoughtful.
The parable showed that true wisdom can come from the most humble people.
Pro Tip 3/3Religious Texts
Parables are often used in religious texts to teach spiritual truths through everyday events.
Jesus often spoke in parables to convey complex spiritual truths.
Pro Tip 1/3Moral Lesson
Parables always include a lesson about how to act or think morally.
In the parable, the protagonist's honesty despite poverty taught us integrity.
Pro Tip 2/3Simple Story
Though parables are short and simple, their meanings are profound and thoughtful.
The parable showed that true wisdom can come from the most humble people.
Pro Tip 3/3Religious Texts
Parables are often used in religious texts to teach spiritual truths through everyday events.
Jesus often spoke in parables to convey complex spiritual truths.
Pro Tip 1/3Moral Lesson
Parables always include a lesson about how to act or think morally.
In the parable, the protagonist's honesty despite poverty taught us integrity.
Pro Tip 2/3Simple Story
Though parables are short and simple, their meanings are profound and thoughtful.
The parable showed that true wisdom can come from the most humble people.
Pro Tip 3/3Religious Texts
Parables are often used in religious texts to teach spiritual truths through everyday events.
Jesus often spoke in parables to convey complex spiritual truths.
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Let's raise kids to be...
figure it out I think we have an obligation as parents in a society to start teaching our kids to fish instead of giving them the fish no parable if you give a man a fish you feed them for a day if you teach a man a fish you feed him for a lifetime if we can teach our kids to become entrepreneurial the ones
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What makes us get sick?...
but in other communities it could be transportation barriers, obesity, access to parks, gun violence. The important thing is, we put in place a system that worked, and it's an approach that I call an upstream approach. It's a term many of you are familiar with. It comes from a parable that's very common
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The political power of...
I did what I usually do when I feel overwhelmed, I realized the problems of Stockton were far bigger than me and that I might need a little divine intervention. So as I prepared for my first council meeting, I went back to some wisdom my grandmother taught me. A parable I think we all know,
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Matthew Carter: My life...
and unfussy spareness that sort of pleased me. You know, at times of technical innovation, designers want to be influenced by what's in the air. We want to respond. We want to be pushed into exploring something new. So Charter is a sort of parable for me, really.
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How to get your ideas to...
Part of the reason is -- they've got way more choices than they used to, and way less time. And in a world where we have too many choices and too little time, the obvious thing to do is just ignore stuff. And my parable here is you're driving down the road
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Safari Live - Day 269 PIPE...
elephants huge rains so we can't take a chance and we'll always have it there we only have to bring down the flops now having given up looking for the edges I thought and look for the parable is that we call the winners on my way home but
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Building a city for the...
perhaps more so today than any other time an African parable about why human beings have two ears but only one mouth is a testament that in Africa listening is the guiding principle this principle is lost to us in the constant chatter of
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Beeban Kidron: The...
human beings have always told their histories and truths through parable and fable. We are inveterate storytellers. But where, in our increasingly secular and fragmented world, do we offer communality of experience,
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Daniel Goleman: Why...
and they were each given a sermon topic. Half of those students were given, as a topic, the parable of the Good the man who stopped the stranger in -- to help the stranger in need by the side of the road.
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James Forbes: Compassion...
random acts of kindness. But for those who really study that text a little more thoroughly, you will discover that a question has been raised that leads to this parable.
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Let's raise kids to be...
figure it out I think we have an obligation as parents in a society to start teaching our kids to fish instead of giving them the fish no parable if you give a man a fish you feed them for a day if you teach a man a fish you feed him for a lifetime if we can teach our kids to become entrepreneurial the ones
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What makes us get sick?...
but in other communities it could be transportation barriers, obesity, access to parks, gun violence. The important thing is, we put in place a system that worked, and it's an approach that I call an upstream approach. It's a term many of you are familiar with. It comes from a parable that's very common
Video examples
The political power of...
I did what I usually do when I feel overwhelmed, I realized the problems of Stockton were far bigger than me and that I might need a little divine intervention. So as I prepared for my first council meeting, I went back to some wisdom my grandmother taught me. A parable I think we all know,
Video examples
Matthew Carter: My life...
and unfussy spareness that sort of pleased me. You know, at times of technical innovation, designers want to be influenced by what's in the air. We want to respond. We want to be pushed into exploring something new. So Charter is a sort of parable for me, really.
Video examples
How to get your ideas to...
Part of the reason is -- they've got way more choices than they used to, and way less time. And in a world where we have too many choices and too little time, the obvious thing to do is just ignore stuff. And my parable here is you're driving down the road
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Safari Live - Day 269 PIPE...
elephants huge rains so we can't take a chance and we'll always have it there we only have to bring down the flops now having given up looking for the edges I thought and look for the parable is that we call the winners on my way home but
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Building a city for the...
perhaps more so today than any other time an African parable about why human beings have two ears but only one mouth is a testament that in Africa listening is the guiding principle this principle is lost to us in the constant chatter of
Video examples
Beeban Kidron: The...
human beings have always told their histories and truths through parable and fable. We are inveterate storytellers. But where, in our increasingly secular and fragmented world, do we offer communality of experience,
Video examples
Daniel Goleman: Why...
and they were each given a sermon topic. Half of those students were given, as a topic, the parable of the Good the man who stopped the stranger in -- to help the stranger in need by the side of the road.
Video examples
James Forbes: Compassion...
random acts of kindness. But for those who really study that text a little more thoroughly, you will discover that a question has been raised that leads to this parable.
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Julian Fellowes
English Actor
What I dislike about movie culture is that it often presents a parable of our problems - but the issues are all straightforward and the people are either nice or they're not. In real life, everyone falls between those perimeters, but not many American films operate in that grey area.
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Paul Claudel
French Dramatist
All that passes is raised to the dignity of expression; all that happens is raised to the dignity of meaning. Everything is either symbol or parable.
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Lauren DeStefano
American Author
When I am writing anything in general, I just want to tell the story that exists in my head; I don't try to write a parable or make a point.
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Greg Daniels
American Writer
Whenever the boss has 'fun' activities, there's got to be a parable or a lesson. Employees feel like they're supposed to be taking notes.
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Tony Oller
American Actor
My favorite parable for living a positive and influential life is the Golden Rule: 'Do unto others what you would have them do unto you.
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Peter Morgan
British Writer
If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable rather than its literal narrative.
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Malcolm Muggeridge
British Journalist
Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.
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John Bytheway
American Author
Who doesn't love the parables? You know there's a solution, but you have to do some work to find it.
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Peter Hedges
American Novelist
The Orpheus myth is my favorite myth, and the prodigal son is my favorite parable.
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Simone Weil
French Philosopher
Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.
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Julian Fellowes
English Actor
What I dislike about movie culture is that it often presents a parable of our problems - but the issues are all straightforward and the people are either nice or they're not. In real life, everyone falls between those perimeters, but not many American films operate in that grey area.
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Paul Claudel
French Dramatist
All that passes is raised to the dignity of expression; all that happens is raised to the dignity of meaning. Everything is either symbol or parable.
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Lauren DeStefano
American Author
When I am writing anything in general, I just want to tell the story that exists in my head; I don't try to write a parable or make a point.
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Greg Daniels
American Writer
Whenever the boss has 'fun' activities, there's got to be a parable or a lesson. Employees feel like they're supposed to be taking notes.
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Tony Oller
American Actor
My favorite parable for living a positive and influential life is the Golden Rule: 'Do unto others what you would have them do unto you.
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Peter Morgan
British Writer
If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable rather than its literal narrative.
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Malcolm Muggeridge
British Journalist
Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.
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John Bytheway
American Author
Who doesn't love the parables? You know there's a solution, but you have to do some work to find it.
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Peter Hedges
American Novelist
The Orpheus myth is my favorite myth, and the prodigal son is my favorite parable.
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Simone Weil
French Philosopher
Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.
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