wheresoever the earth may be placed, or whithersoever it may be carried by its animal faculty, heavy bodies will always be carried… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
Conflict, which rouses up the best and highest powers in some characters, in others not only jars the whole being, but paralyzes… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
I do not say the mind gets informed by action, — bodily action; but it does get earnestness and strength by it,… — William Mountford Copy Share Image
According to Jains the soul in pure form has infiniteness in terms of its knowledge and power. These faculties are obstructed for… — Virchand Gandhi Copy Share Image
That subtle knot which makes us man So must pure lovers souls descend T affections, and to faculties, Which sense may reach… — John Donne Copy Share Image
It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far… — Robert South Copy Share Image
The more one listens to ordinary conversations the more apparent it becomes that the reasoning faculties of the brain take little part… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
Be it known that Men of dull faculties and slight wisdom, They who cling proudly to signs, Cannot believe in this Dharma.… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
That one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, by and… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Thus the brave and aspiring life of one man lights a flame in the minds of others of like faculties and impulse;… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Dirt's a funny thing,' the Boss said. 'Come to think of it, there ain't a thing but dirt on this green God's… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
But love's true nature remains forever beyond the grasp of all our faculties. It is far greater than any feeling or emotion… — Gerald May Copy Share Image
Every scene, even the commonest, is wonderful, if only one can detach oneself, casting off all memory of use and custom, and… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
To the best of my recollection, I became a philosopher because my parents wanted me to become a lawyer. It seems to… — Jerry Fodor Copy Share Image
Rationalization is a cover-up, a process of providing one's emotions with a false identity, of giving them spurious explanations and justifications -… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Admitting that it is the profession of our sex to teach, we perceive the mother to be first in point of precedence,… — Lydia Sigourney Copy Share Image
The faculty for remembering is not diminished in proportion to what one has learnt, just as little as the number of moulds… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I think liberal art faculties at major universities have views that are not very sound, at least on public policy issues -… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
I went on to discover that in its deepest sense, the will is not primarily the faculty of desire for anything known,… — Bernadette Roberts Copy Share Image
In teaching, regard must be had to the faculties possessed by the pupil. In childhood, memory; in youth, the understanding; in mature… — Joseph P. Bradley Copy Share Image
Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other, and thus makes… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Equally important for the promotion of excellence in the university is an emphasis on shared governance. The faculty needs to be involved… — Henry Rosovsky Copy Share Image
Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
There are many faculties in man, each of which takes its turn of activity, and that faculty which is paramount in any… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I did not myself set a high estimation on wealth, and had the affectation of most young men of lively imagination, who… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
A cultivated mind is one to which the fountains of knowledge have been opened, and which has been taught, in any tolerable… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
If one defines the term 'dropout' to mean a person who has given up serious effort to meet his responsibilities, then every… — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
Though men of delicate taste be rare, they are easily to be distinguished in society by the soundness of their understanding, and… — David Hume Copy Share Image
To supply a thought is mental massage; but to evolve a thought of your own is an achievement. Thinking is a brain… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
There is nothing I fear so much as idleness, the want of occupation, inactivity, the lethargy of the faculties; when the body… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
One has only the choice between God and idolatry. There is no other possibility. For the faculty of worship is in us,… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Not only does neoliberalism undermine both civic education and public values and confuse education with training, it also treats knowledge as a… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Not many academics do labor education. Why not? The need is great. This is where the youth are so important. If faculty… — Michael Yates Copy Share Image
I am curious to know what would happen if art were suddenly seen for what it is, namely, exact information of how… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
All the time I was playing the flute, the lines, the solos, the riffs, the construction, were based on my guitar skills.… — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
We know that pumping oil out of the ground does not create many jobs. It does not foster an entrepreneurial spirit, nor… — Ali al-Naimi Copy Share Image
The idea that by eating the meat of an animal, the animal powers or faculties could be conveyed to oneself is nonsense… — Franz Bardon Copy Share Image
If the nature of the work is properly appreciated and applied, it will stand in the same relation to the higher faculties… — J. C. Kumarappa Copy Share Image
The future of research is interdisciplina ry, and will quickly take us into areas that today we cannot even foresee. This building… — Michael Tanner Copy Share Image
The soul of animals is characterized by two faculties, (a) the faculty of discrimination which is the work of thought and sense,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
