The tongue of man is powerful enough to render the ideas which the human intellect conceives; but in the realm of true… — Lajos Kossuth Copy Share Image
“It is beyond the power of the human intellect to encompass all the causes of any phenomenon. But the impulse to search… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement,… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
All that was required to measure the planet was a man with a stick and a brain. In other words, couple an… — Simon Singh Copy Share Image
“The maintenance and monitoring programs were created by a secret branch of the World Governing Authorities, the project code named Intellect was… — Jill Thrussell Copy Share Image
The fact is that the more we take flight upward [to God], the more our words are confined to the ideas we… — Pope Dionysius Copy Share Image
Sensual pleasures are like soap bubbles, sparkling, effervescent. The pleasures of intellect are calm, beautiful, sublime, ever enduring and climbing upward to… — John H Aughey Copy Share Image
If I say that Shakespeare is the greatest of intellects, I have said all concerning him. But there is more in Shakespeare's… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I understood, not with my intellect but with my whole being, that no theories of the rationality of existence or of progress… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Avoid all refined speculations; confine yourself to simple reflections, and recur to them frequently. Those who pass too rapidly from one truth… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
The devil is no fool. He can get people feeling about heaven the way they ought to feel about hell. He can… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Sex cannot be understood because nature cannot be understood. Science is a method of logical analysis of nature's operations. It has lessened… — Camille Copy Share Image
And fantasy it was, for we were not strong, only aggressive; we were not free, merely licensed; we were not compassionate, we… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
The various systems of doctrine that have held dominion over man have been demonstrated to be true beyond all question by rationalists… — Wilfred Trotter Copy Share Image
I am the way into the city of woe. I am the way to a forsaken people. I am the way into… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
Man is a rational animal—so at least I have been told. … Aristotle, so far as I know, was the first man… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Nature is our salvation, not technology or the intellect. Technology can neither save us nor destroy us. Technology can only aid the… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Intellect is void of affection and sees an object as it stands in the light of science, cool and disengaged. The intellect… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We now demand the light artillery of the intellect; we need the curt, the condensed, the pointed, the readily diffused -- in… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
What pleases the public is lively and vivid delineation which makes no demands on the intellect; but passionate and absolutist youth can… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
Culture is simply the hospitality of the intellect. Your mind is open to new ideas and larger views; when they enter, you… — Tom Kettle Copy Share Image
Excessive golfing dwarfs the intellect. Nor is this to be wondered at when you consider that the more fatuously vacant the mind… — Charles Walter Simpson Copy Share Image
Nowhere is wisdom more necessary than in the guidance of charitable impulses. Meaning well is only half our duty; Thinking right is… — Samuel Gridley Howe Copy Share Image
“Simply to render oneself able to understand what other Christian thinkers have themselves come to understand and to more or less felicitously… — Gregory B. Sadler Copy Share Image
In this modern world, the celibacy of the medieval learned class has been replaced by a celibacy of the intellect which is… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
We came to realise - first with astonishment, then bitterness, and finally with indifference - that intellect apparently wasn't the most important… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
The intellect,-that is miraculous! Who has it, has the talisman: his skin and bones, though they were of the color of night,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
So far has Athens left the rest of mankind behind in thought and expression that her pupils have become the teachers of… — Isocrates Copy Share Image
“I have a realistic grasp of my own strengths and weaknesses. My mind is my weapon. My brother has his sword, King… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it Intuition or what… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Instead of being regarded as intelligent or knowledgeable, many a woman would rather be regarded as beautiful or good in the kitchen;… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
This therefore is Mathematics: She reminds you of the invisible forms of the soul; She gives life to her own discoveries; She… — Proclus Copy Share Image
The only solid piece of scientific truth about which I feel totally confident is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature... It… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
It is well known, that the best productions of the best human intellects, are generally regarded by those intellects as mere immature… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“To be sure, it is not the fruits of scientific research that elevate a man and enrich his nature, but the urge… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Science contributes to our culture in many ways, as a creative intellectual activity in its own right, as the light which has… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
If it were given to a man to see virtue's reward in the next world, he would occupy his intellect, memory and… — John of the Cross Copy Share Image
“A fundamental approach to life transformation is using social media for therapy; it forces you to have an opinion, provides intellectual stimulation,… — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
Because her instinct has told her, or because she has been reliably informed, the faded virgin knows that the supreme joys are… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
Intellect begins with the observation of nature, proceeds to memorize and classify the facts thus observed, and by logical deduction builds up… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image