The word 'heart' can refer to an emotional bond between people, and also to the precious faculty of empathy, an 'open heart',… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The creative act does not create something out of nothing; it uncovers, selects, reshuffles, combines, synthesizes already existing facts, ideas, faculties, and… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Man... is an inextricable tangle of culture and biology. And not being simple, he is not simply good; he has... a kind… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and… — Albert Pike 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
That faculty of beholding at a hint the face of his desire and the shape of his dream, without which the earth… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
A man should always have these two rules in readiness. First, to do only what the reason of your ruling and legislating… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
It is in the faculty of noble, disinterested, unselfish love that lies the true gift and power of womanhood,--a power which makes… — Frances Power Cobbe Copy Share Image
Of all the faculties of the mind, memory is the first that flourishes, the first that dies — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
But the true evil of drink lies in the disillusion: that the initial pleasure very soon evaporates, leaving a demoralizing craving for… — Caitlin Thomas Copy Share Image
Harvard (across the river in Cambridge) and Boston are two ends of one mustache. ... Without the faculty, the visitors, the events… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
Freud ... showed us that poetry is indigenous to the very constitution of the mind ; he saw the mind as being,… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
The city is the image of the soul, the surrounding walls being the frontier between the outward and inward life. The gates… — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I will be led and taught of the Holy Spirit. God desires full development, use and activity of our faculties. The Holy… — Roger Youderian Copy Share Image
A dandy is a clothes-wearing man--a man whose trade, office, and existence consist in the wearing of clothes. Every faculty of his… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
To unfold the secret laws and relations of those high faculties of thought by which all beyond the merely perceptive knowledge of… — George Boole Copy Share Image
I love you because I love you, because it would be impossible not to love you. I love you without question, without… — Juliette Drouet Copy Share Image
The way of fortune is like the milky way in the sky; which is a meeting, or knot, of a number of… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
All people are endowed with the faculty of compassion, and for this reason can develop the humanitarian spirit. — Albert Schweitzer 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
Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Lately I feel being political is also about the company I keep and the ideas I put forward. When I do a… — Vijay Iyer Copy Share Image
All outward success, when it has value, is but the inevitable result of an inward success of full living, full play and… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose,… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image