I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
To wake in the night: be wide awake in an instant, with all your faculties on edge: to wake, and be under… — Henry Handel Richardson 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
There is in the world no rock or tower of such a height that it cannot be scaled by any man (provided… — John Amos Comenius Copy Share Image
The man who accepts Western values absolutely, finds his creative faculties becoming so warped and stunted that he is almost completely dependent… — Paul Robeson 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
All goes to show that the soul in man is not an organ, but animates and exercises all the organs; is not… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
But should we continue to linger amid a scene so featureless and wild, or venture adown some yawning opening into the abyss… — Hugh Miller Copy Share Image
... let us recall the well-known statement of a university professor in the Republic of the Massagetes: 'Not the faculty but His… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Reason cannot remain a bare intellectual faculty; it must become a faculty of judgment dealing with the question of values. — Margaret Benson Copy Share Image
If that marvellous microcosm, man, with all the costly cargo of his faculties and powers, were indeed a rich argosy, fitted out… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I suspect most likely that more Nazis came to America. I was a student at Harvard during the early 1950s. There was… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It appears to general observation, that revolutions create genius and talents; but those events do no more than bring them forward. There… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“Most of us are pseudo-scholars...for we are a very large and quite a powerful class, eminent in Church and State, we control… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
I would love to see a debate on economics between Trump and Obama. Mr. 'Scholar,' Mr. Faculty Lounge Extraordinaire versus Mr. Real… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
You should not say anything that you cannot put your totality behind. The total value of you is that whatever you say,… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi Copy Share Image
The writer, unlike his non-writing adult friend, has no predisposed outlook; he seldom observes deliberately. He sees what he didnot intend to… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
I will suggest that the great aim of our education is to bring out of the child who comes into our hands… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Humor is not a postscript or an incidental afterthought; it is a serious and weighty part of the world's economy. One feels… — Oscar W. Firkins Copy Share Image
Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
Princeton has made an enormous difference in my life, and I am delighted to be able to express my gratitude in such… — Gordon Wu Copy Share Image
Fear is a great robber of power. It paralyzes the thinking faculties, ruins spontaneity, enthusiasm, and self confidence. It has a blighting… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Not our Logical, Mensurative faculty, but our Imaginative one is King over us; I might say, Priest and Prophet to lead us… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
All that we make and do is shaped by the communities and traditions that contain us, not to mention by money, power,… — Lewis Hyde Copy Share Image
