Do not view mountains from the scale of human thought.

“A wife is not a commodity to be weighed on the scale of human preferences.”

— Samuel Adjeipong

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.

— Edward Abbey

“My way of thinking is completely different,” he says. “I have no such mountains to scale; basically, I find that living itself is a…

— Eric Weiner

“Rise again. You have mountains to scale.”

— Gift Gugu Mona

Because mountains are high and broad, the way of riding the clouds is always reached in the mountains; the inconceivable power of soaring in…

— Dogen

An ancient buddha said, “Mountains are mountains; waters are waters.” These words do not mean mountains are mountains; they mean mountains are mountains.

— Dogen

The everlasting universe of things Flows through the mind, and rolls its rapid waves, Now dark--now glittering--now reflecting gloom-- Now lending splendour, where from…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

When it comes to explaining human thought and behavior, the possibility that heredity plays any role at all still has the power to shock.…

— Steven Pinker

The publication in 1859 of the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin made a marked epoch in my own mental development, as it did…

— Francis Galton

Spirit of BEAUTY, that dost consecrate With thine own hues all thou dost shine upon Of human thought or form, where art thou gone?…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Today, when you combine the web with the iPad, you have the most advanced medium for human thought and communication ever created.

— Mike McCue

The velocity of light occupies an extraordinary place in modern physics. It is lèse-majesté to make any criticism of the velocity of light. It…

— Anthony Standen

[One task of intellectuals is] to break down the stereotypes and reductive categories that are . . . limiting to human thought and communication.

— Edward Said

Never yet has a God been defined in terms which were not palpably self-contradictory and absurd; never yet has a God been described so…

— Annie Besant

Just as a pool of water cannot reflect the sky overhead when it is restless and disturbed, so we can never get a perfect…

— Alice Hegan Rice