“The object of mathematics is the honor of the human spirit.” — Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi Copy Share Image
Yet there is a dignity in the human spirit which can become most clearly visible in the moment of defeat and disaster. — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image
Humble, honest, ignorance is one of the finest flowers of the human spirit — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
Far from being demeaning to human spiritual values, scientific rationalism is the crowning glory of the human spirit. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“The Spirit in the believer's spirit penetrates and spreads throughout their whole inner being.” — Henry Hon Copy Share Image
It's natural to sit down but the human spirit within us can make us get up. — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
Deep down in the human spirit, there is a reservoir of courage. It is always available, always waiting to be discovered. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“The human spirit is frail. People believe whatever they need to believe. I feel sorry for all of them.” — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
“To my mind, voyaging through wildernesses, be they full of woods or waves, is essential to the growth and maturity of the… — Steven Callahan Copy Share Image
Whether we athletes liked it or not, the 4-minute mile had become rather like an Everest: a challenge to the human spirit,… — Roger Bannister Copy Share Image
Pope John Paul II brought hope to all corners of the world, to people of all faiths and backgrounds, with his powerful… — Jerry Costello Copy Share Image
“-when the human spirit departs, it takes with it the vital stuffing of life. Then, only the inanimate corpus remains, which is… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
My short answer would be that there is no greatest jazz musician of the century. Jazz, like any valid art form, finds… — Bennie Wallace Copy Share Image
“For if there are (at a venture) seventy-six different times all ticking in the mind at once, how many different people are… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
With writing, I think you have to be honest with yourself. I have a certain kind of writing; that is, I like… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
David Cristofanos debut novel captures the essence of the human spirit, and delivers a story that is simultaneously heartwarming and heartbreaking. — Brad Listi Copy Share Image
Ninety-nine percent of the time humans have lived on this planet we've lived in tribes, groups of 12 to 36 people. Only… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
A good piece of fiction, in my view, does not offer solutions. Good stories deal with our moral struggles, our uncertainties, our… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
“I would, if one-armned and jonesing, doubtless have found a way to cook up a hearty spoon of Mexican tar and slam… — Jerry Stahl Copy Share Image
I want people to see the beauty of that condition through the eyes of the characters. In doing that, they can allow… — Paul Dalio Copy Share Image
We are all born as animals and live the life that animals live: we sleep, eat, reproduce, and fight. There is, however,… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
We are fascinated, all of us, by the implacable otherness of others. And we wish to penetrate by hypothesis, by daydream, by… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
My hope is for a literature that raises the language above the ordinary, makes words both functional and emotional, and to resonate… — Theresa Breslin Copy Share Image
Perhaps the rediscovery of our humanity, and the potential of the human spirit which we have read about in legends of older… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
“Blocks of flats could change everything, thought Mma Ramotswe. They were designed for people, but people were not necessarily designed for them.… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“Like literature, music can overwhelm you with sudden emotion, can move you to absolute sorrow or ecstasy; like literature, painting has the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Hinduism ... gave itself no name, because it set itself no sectarian limits; it claimed no universal adhesion, asserted no sole infallible… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
“Never during its pilgrimage is the human spirit completely adrift and alone. From start to finish its nucleus is the Atman, the… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
“There are obvious psychological stresses on a person in a group, but there may be even greater stresses on a person in… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“It is easy, of course, to fear happiness. There is often complacency in the acceptance of misery. We fear parting from our… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
“I am convinced that imprisonment is a way of pretending to solve the problem of crime. It does nothing for the victims… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“The storm of revolution,’ as Andre Chenier said, ‘blows out the torch of poetry.’ It is not for some little time that… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
