Conversation opens our views, and gives our faculties a more vigorous play; it puts us upon turning our notions on every side,… — William Melmoth Copy Share Image
The act of praying is the very highest energy of which the human mind is capable; praying, that is, with the total… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
A man needs no arguments to make him discern and approve what is beautiful: it strikes at first sight, and attracts without… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
In 1978, I entered Tohoku University, into the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Technology. — Koichi Tanaka Copy Share Image
We are in a maze which we built, and then we fell into, now can't get out. To make the game into… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
It was play rather than work which enabled man to evolve his higher faculties - everything we mean by the word 'culture'. — Herbert Read 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
Faith ... that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue. — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
I suspect that, though Craig indulges in a bit of wishful thinking, playing taps for various critical approaches still quite far from… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
Addressing the Columbia crew after winning the intercollegiate regatta: I congratulate you most heartily upon the splendid victory you have won, and… — Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard Copy Share Image
The Soviet Union tried for 70 years to plant Marxism with bayonets in Eastern Europe. Today there are more Marxists on the… — George Will Copy Share Image
A significant contribution to science pedagogy and to the scholarship of teaching and learning. ... [W]ill be of interest to researchers in… — David W. Oxtoby Copy Share Image
Clutching our crystals and religiously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in steep decline, unable to distinguish between what's true and what… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Kerr's Three Rules for a Successful College: Have plenty of football for the alumni, sex for the students, and parking for the… — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
We are on the earth, and they tell us of heaven; we are human beings, and they tell us of angels and… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
Liberty, understood by materialists as the right to do or not to do anything not directly injurious to others, we understand as… — Giuseppe Mazzini Copy Share Image
Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the state was to make men free to develop their faculties. — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
Many faculty retreated into academic specializations and an arcane language that made them irrelevant to the task of defending the university as… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Neither lemonade nor anything else can prevent the inroads of old age. At present, I am stoical under its advances, and hope… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the will to choose… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
[The monks'] credulity debased and vitiated the faculties of the mind: they corrupted the evidence of history; and superstition gradually extinguished the… — Edward Gibbon 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
Talent is some one faculty unusually developed; genius commands all the faculties. — Frederic Henry Hedge 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
In the faculty of speech man excels the brute; but if thou utterest what is improper, the brute is they superior. — Saadi Copy Share Image
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