“If the mind is to emerge unscathed from this relentless struggle with the unforeseen, two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that,… — Carl Von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
I love the sticky leaves in spring, the blue sky — that’s all it is. It’s not a matter of intellect or… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
The disposition to give a cup of cold water to a disciple is a far nobler property than the finest intellect. Satan… — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
I envy no quality of the mind or intellect in others; not genius, power, wit, nor fancy; but, if I could choose… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
A man develops a subtle power as a result of the strict observance of celibacy for twelve years. Then he can understand… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
I couldn't stand being identified by my sexuality, I retaliated by insisting that people regard me for my intellectual worth. My intellect… — Leora Tanenbaum Copy Share Image
Holy Scripture is so exalted that there is no one in the world ... wise enough to understand it so fully that… — Angela of Foligno Copy Share Image
I am not insane," he said. "A woman of your highly advanced intellect ought to be able to perceive that I am… — Loretta Chase Copy Share Image
I have problems with a religion which says that faith in itself is enough for a ticket to heaven. In other words,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Intellect and love are made of different materials,” he said. “Intellect ties people in knots and risks nothing, but love dissolves all… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A state of things in which a large portion of the most active and inquiring intellects find it advisable to keep the… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men, a pledge of sanity, and a protection from those… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“You know these things as thoughts, but your thoughts are not your experiences, they are an echo and after-effect of your experiences:… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
But for me, dinner at a fine restaurant was the ultimate luxury. It was the very height of civilization. For what was… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“No, there's going to be no even tenor with me. The more uneven it is the happier I shall be. And when… — Richard Halliburton Copy Share Image
Pharisaism, obtuseness and tyranny reign not only in the homes of merchants and in jails; I see it in science, in literature,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
The most fatal blow to progress is slavery of the intellect. The most sacred right of humanity is the right to think,… — Helen H. Gardener Copy Share Image
Living creatures possess a moving soul and a certain spiritual superiority which in this respect make them similar to those who possess… — Nahmanides Copy Share Image
Human education is concerned with certain changes in the intellects, characters and behavior of men, its problems being roughly included under these… — Edward Thorndike Copy Share Image
But just as astronomy succeeded astrology, following Kepler's discovery of planetary regularities, the discoveries of these many principles in empirical explorations of… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
These people being of a sharp and acute intellect, and gifted with a rich and powerful understanding, excel in whatever studies they… — Giraldus Cambrensis Copy Share Image
What is a Person? is a clear and comprehensive reconsideration of the meaning of human personhood as the central core of social… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As long as we continue to be imprisoned within the corrupt and rancid norms of the intellect, it will be more than… — Samael Aun Weor Copy Share Image
There are few persons, even among the calmest thinkers, who have not occasionally been startled into a vague yet thrilling half credence… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
The growth of the intellect is spontaneous in every expansion. The mind that grows could not predict the times, the means, the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What then is the source of my errors? They are owing simply to the fact that, since the will extends further than… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
The epoch of doubt and transition during which the Greeks passed from the dim fancies of mythology to the fierce light of… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Free improvisation, in addition to being a highly skilled musical craft, is open to use by almost anyone-beginners, children, and non-musicians. The… — Derek Bailey Copy Share Image
A woman cannot live in the light of intellect. Society forbids it. Those conventional frivolities, which are called her 'duties', forbid it.… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
You are Life passing through your body, passing through your mind, passing through your soul. Once you find that out, not with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The process of inner self-examination brings about a knowledge that is as rigorous and supported by evidence as anything science has to… — Jacob Needleman Copy Share Image
You could give Aristotle a tutorial and you could thrill him to the core of his being. Aristotle was an encyclopedic polymath,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The real security of Christianity is to be found in its benevolent morality, in its exquisite adaptation to the human heart, in… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
There is not really any courage at all in attacking hoary or antiquated things, any more than in offering to fight one's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The full squat is a perfectly natural position for the leg to occupy. That's why there is a joint in the middle… — Mark Rippetoe Copy Share Image
If you will cling to Nature, to the simple in Nature, to the little things that hardly anyone sees, and that can… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Sex is mathematics. Individuality no longer an issue. What does intelligence signify? Define reason. Desire -- meaningless. Intellect is not a cure.… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
The press, important as is its office, is but the servant of the human intellect, and its ministry is for good or… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
The generous wish to share with all what is precious, to spread broadcast priceless truths, to shut out none from the illumination… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
the only way in which a human being can make some approach to knowing the whole of a subject, is by hearing… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
