The study of history and philosophy, accompanied by some acquaintance with art and literature, should be for lawyers and engineers as well… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
A skittish motorbike with a touch of blood in it is better than all the riding animals on earth, because of its… — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The union of men in large masses is indispensable to the development and rapid growth of the higher faculties of men. Cities… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my… — William Congreve Copy Share Image
Cuba's poverty is caused by the crackpot Marxist doctrines imposed by its sociopathic ruler and promoted by half the liberal arts professors… — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
What we're learning in our schools is not the wisdom of life. We're learning technologies, we're getting information. There's a curious reluctance… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
There is far too much talk of love and grief benumbing the faculties, turning the hair gray, and destroying a man's interest… — William McFee Copy Share Image
As to memory, it is known that this frail faculty naturally lets drop the facts which are less flattering to our self-love… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
In each of us two powers preside, one male, one female: and in the man's brain, the man predominates over the woman,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Not only in geometry, but to a still more astonishing degree in physics, has it become more and more evident that as… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
I have endeavoured to show that no absolute structural line of demarcation, wider than that between the animals which immediately succeed us… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
That afternoon he told me that the difference between human beings and animals was that human beings were able to dream while… — Steven Millhauser Copy Share Image
Part of what makes a language 'alive' is its constant evolution. I would hate to think Britain would ever emulate France, where… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
We are apt to consider that invention is the result of spontaneous action of some heavenborn genius, whose advent we must patiently… — John Ambrose Fleming Copy Share Image
If men were able to be convinced that art is a precise advance knowledge of how to cope with the psychic and… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true science.… — Hans Selye Copy Share Image
I experienced in myself a certain capacity for judging which I have doubtless received from God, like all the other things that… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
Sight is by much the noblest of the senses. We receive our notices from the other four, through the organs of sensation… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
The dramatic art would appear to be rather a feminine art; it contains in itself all the artifices which belong to the… — Sarah Bernhardt Copy Share Image
Can theology give to the mind the ineffable boon of conceiving that which no man is in a capacity to comprehend? Can… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
There was a time when I was wondering about this business of going public, so I visited about a half-dozen companies in… — Amar Bose Copy Share Image
Truth is his inspirer, and earnestness the polisher of his sentences. He could afford to lose his Sharp's rifles, while he retained… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Life, faculties, production-in other words, individuality, liberty, property-this is man. And in spite of the cunning of artful political leaders, these three… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
As a Member of Congress from one of the fastest growing States in the country, we hire close to 2,500 new teachers… — Jon Porter Copy Share Image
Taste is the intermediate faculty which connects the active with the passive powers of our nature, the intellect with the senses; and… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I became a bit of a teacher's pet, and it became known in the school by both faculty and students that I… — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
One of the chief things which my typical man has to learn is that the mental faculties are capable of a continuous… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
It is a curious fact that with 'Through the Looking-Glass' the faculty of making book illustrations departed from me... I have done… — John Tenniel Copy Share Image
The faculty of self-help is that which distinguished man from animals; that it is the Godlike element, or holds within itself the… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
There is one plain rule of life. Try thyself unweariedly till thou findest the highest thing thou art capable of doing, faculties… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
All this creative power of the mind amounts to no more than the faculty of compounding, transposing, augmenting, or diminishing the materials… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The greatest mystery a man ever learned, is to know how to control the human mind, and bring every faculty and power… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Man was born to be rich, or grow rich by use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature. Property… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Individuals in a university - students, faculty, staff - can choose to become politically engaged, and a free university should foster a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope, that in a mortal subject, and in a moment, makes nothing of usurping infinity, immensity,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
People complain that our generation has no philosophers. They are wrong. They now sit in another faculty. Their names are Max Planck… — Adolf von Harnack Copy Share Image
If you're going for things that are really terrible ideas you have to really have all your faculties about you to get… — Will Sheff Copy Share Image
