Natural Magick is taken to be nothing else, but the chief power of all the natural Sciences; which therefore they call the… — Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa Copy Share Image
The Greeks were the first intellectualists. In a world where the irrational had played the chief role, they came forward as the… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
Chief among our gains must be reckoned this possibility of choice, the recognition of many possible ways of life, where other civilizations… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
A surgeon will cut off a limb in order to protect the body from disease. And a commander-in-chief should pull out of… — Michael Huffington Copy Share Image
I think that the only time we will really know what then-President Trump is going to do about the set of challenges… — Samantha Power Copy Share Image
One of the chief uses of religion is that it makes us remember our coming from darkness, the simple fact that we… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The chief reason warfare is still with us is neither a secret death-wish of the human species, nor an irrepressible instinct of… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Able Danger was a top-secret military planning operation, established in '99 by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to identify… — Curt Weldon Copy Share Image
Although I still write, research and investigate, my role is primarily that of a publisher and editor-in-chief who organises and directs other… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
The first quality of the commander-in-chief is a cool head to receive a correct impression of things. He should not allow himself… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The chief art of learning, as Locke has observed, is to attempt but little at a time. The widest excursions of the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Pro football was taking off when I became commissioner, and when a sport's successful and you're its chief executive officer, much of… — Pete Rozelle Copy Share Image
Resistance, whether to one's appetites or to the ways of the world, is a chief factor in the shaping of character. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The chief philosophical value of physics is that it gives the mind something distinct to lay hold of, which, if you don't,… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
My chief reason for choosing Christianity was because the mysteries were incomprehensible. What's the point of revelation if we could figure it… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
One of the chief obstacles to intelligence is credulity, and credulity could be enormously diminished by instructions as to the prevalent forms… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
What this White House really needs is a chief of staff who can read Machiavelli in the original Italian. — Mack McLarty Copy Share Image
Proceed, great chief, with virtue on thy sideThy every action let the goddess guide. — Phillis Wheatley Copy Share Image
Our chiefs are killed. . . . The little children are freezing to death. . . . My people have no blankets,… — Chief Joseph Copy Share Image
The chief want, in every state that I have been into, was a high and earnest purpose in its inhabitants. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When your troops go to war, the prime minister or the president change overnight from an administrator, dealing with taxation and welfare… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
So, then, what is style? There are two chief aspects of any piece of writing: 1) what you say and 2) how… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Of these austerer virtues the love of truth is the chief, and in mathematics, more than elsewhere, the love of truth may… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“And the more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
