His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
If we are willing, the experience of grief can deepen and widen our ability to participate in life.
It takes suffering to widen the soul.
Once we are willing to accept that anything worth doing might even be worth doing badly, our options widen.
Education is the sum total of one's experience, and the purpose of higher education is to widen our experiences beyond the circumscribed existence or our own daily lives.
I seek to widen, narrow narratives of women of color.
I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing, to widen their horizons of action.
My view of university training is to unsettle the minds of young men, to widen their horizons, to inflame their intellects. It is not a hardening, or settling process. Education is not to teach men facts, theories, or laws; it is not to reform them, or amuse them, or to make them expert technicians in any field; it is to teach them to think, to think straight if possible; but to think always for themselves.
The greatest force of personal liberation is the decision to widen our circle of compassion, moving from focus on self to focus on service.
Whether interpreting the Constitution or filling in the blanks of a law or a regulation, every word of the court's opinion can widen or narrow our rights as Americans and either protect us or leave us more vulnerable to any winds that blow.
Great talkers are trying to fill the gap between themselves and others, but only widen it.
My attitude was always, if you are a huge metal fan, the more dedicated and more obsessive a metal fan you are, then why wouldn't you like more metal, widen your net, and include hair metal?
