It is vain to think that we choose, that our own energy, our own intellect will create the possibility of us experiencing… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to be despised for a fool is covered… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
“Nietzsche, an infinitely harder and more courageous intellect, was incapable of any such confusion of ideas; he seldom allowed sentimentality to turn… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The question of whether there exists a Creator and Ruler of the Universe has been answered in the affirmative by some of… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
My eyes widened at the ball of orange fluff squeezing out from under the counter, blinking and stretching. I looked again, not… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
The intellectual quest is exquisite like pearls and coral, But it is not the same as the spiritual quest. The spiritual quest… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“Whether the individual fights this battle in ways such that men call him good or such that they call him evil is… — Nietzche Copy Share Image
When a superior intellect and a psychopathic temperament coalesce in the same individual, we have the best possible condition for the kind… — William James Copy Share Image
“An intellectual is usually someone who isn't exactly distinguished by his intellect," Corelli asserted. "he claims that label to compensate for his… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
The task of an author is, either to teach what is not known, or to recommend known truths by his manner of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I am delighted to have you play football. I believe in rough, manly sports. But I do not believe in them if… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A dead language is not only one no longer spoken or written, it is unyielding language content to admire its own paralysis.… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
There are dons who care for the intellect and the imagination, and there are priests who care for the spirit; but broadly… — Hugh Kingsmill Copy Share Image
God's Providence controls the universe. It is present everywhere. Providence is the sovereign Logos of God, imprinting form on the unformed materiality… — Anthony the Great Copy Share Image
I think we have a free will, and at the same moment we don't. We have to live with that. It doesn't… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
... we grapple with this 'law of sin' (Rom. 8:2) and expel it from our body, establishing in its place the surveillance… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
Kant ... was also quite aware that "the urgent need" of reason is both different from and "more than mere quest and… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“An intellectual is usually someone who isn't exactly distinguished by his intellect . . . He claims that label to compensate for… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
By instinct we-leaders-want to run hard all the time; by intellect we know this is not possible. Reconciling those two positions in… — Bill Walsh Copy Share Image
“Decision that is taken, it is intellect (buddhi) that does it, till then there is the influence of the mind (which gives… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The eyes of a poet discover in each person a unique and irreplaceable humanity. While arrogant intellect seeks to control and manipulate… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
The organization of supplies, the command of men, anything in any way constructive requires more than intellect; it requires energy and drive… — Erwin Rommel Copy Share Image
... God allows the wheat and the tares to grow up together, andthe tares frequently get the start of the wheat and… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
If you do not know your place in the world and the meaning of your life, you should know there is something… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
We’re looking for anything to do with the Rod of Time. (Sin) Rod of Time, Forsaken Moon, Tablet of Destiny…you Sumerians really… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
The Church no longer contends that knowledge is in itself sinful, though it did so in its palmy days; but the acquisition… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to… — Augustus Hare Copy Share Image
We do not want our world to perish. But in our quest for knowledge, century by century, we have placed all our… — Dora Russell Copy Share Image
You want to get rich in order that you may surround yourself with beautiful things, see distant lands, feed your mind, and… — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
What you want will pull like a magnet. Here's the other part. What for? Purpose is stronger than object. It's the 'What… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
In order to accommodate to change and to the contrast of phenomena, the intellect does not require any shocks and inner upheavals;… — Georg Simmel Copy Share Image
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. This is an error of… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
If the human intellect is allowed to impose a preconceived pattern on society, if our powers of reasoning are allowed to lay… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Whatever we believe about how we got to be the extraordinary creatures we are today is far less important than bringing our… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
My teachings are easy to understand and easy to put into practice. Yet your intellect will never grasp them, and if you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual -… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
“Initially, you grasp [knowledge] through the ‘light’ of the intellect and then the understanding arises, and thereafter a state in which there is absence of anger-pride-deceit-greed… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
I love the idea of playing something stupid or romantic. I'm not the smartest man in the room. I listen, and I… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
“When Albert Einstein told you to hide your source, he wasn't giving you a deliberate advice to conceal the root in which… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Perfect sincerity, holiness, gigantic intellect, and all-conquering will. Let only a handful of men work with these, and the whole world will… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image