Repartee is altogether a natural endowment, and is the…

I consider the differences between man and animals in propensities, feelings, and intellectual faculties, to be the result of the same cause as that…

— Sir William Lawrence, 1st Baronet

Science and art may invent splendid modes of illuminating the apartments of the opulent; but these are all poor and worthless compared with the…

— William Ellery Channing

There cannot be a surer rule, nor a stronger exhortation to the observance of it, than when we are taught that all the endowments…

— John Calvin

Our reverence for the nobility of manhood will not be lessened by the knowledge that man is in substance and in structure, one with…

— Thomas Huxley

The world will not give you an endowment for your finger-painting. Your finger-painting may be marvelous, but our government and society do not value…

— Sara Benincasa

There is no perfecter endowment in man than political virtue.

— Plutarch

That's the reason support for the National Endowment of the Arts is so important. It enables those ventures that aren't viable commercially to be…

— David Selby

“Love can be a natural endowment, a present, or a gift. If it is not just a donation, it can be a divine talent.…

— Erik Pevernagie

As for solitude, I cannot understand how certain people seek to lay claim to intellectual stature, nobility of soul and strength of character, yet…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Some innate capacity - some part of the human genetic endowment - enters into language acquisition. That much is uncontroversial among those who believe…

— Noam Chomsky

Freedom is not just something with which we are born; it is something we achieve. America did not receive a perpetual endowment of freedom;…

— Fulton J. Sheen

“A good will is good not because of what it effects, or accomplishes, not because of its fitness to attain some intended end, but…

— Immanuel Kant

What is the explanation for the blind eye that has been turned on the flood of medical reports on the causative role of carbohydrates…

— Robert Atkins

Fashion is not a real element of beauty in external objects; and to persons who possess a good endowment of Form, Constructiveness and Ideality,…

— George Combe

We have Mr. Putin in Russia. And he appears to be a popular president of Russia. And I don't think it's the business of…

— Pat Buchanan