And the pleasures and rewards of the intellect are inseparable from angst, uncertainty, conflict and even despair. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
In regard to intellect and true virtue, every nation is on a par with the rest, and God has not in these… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
What censorship accomplishes, creating an unreal and hypocritical mythology, fomenting an attraction for forbidden fruit, inhibiting the creative minds among us and… — Judith Crist Copy Share Image
My intellect is a little way upon the wrong side of that narrow boundary-line between sanity and insanity. — Mary Elizabeth Braddon Copy Share Image
The procedure we are pursuing is that of true democracy. Semi-democracy accepts the dictatorship of a majority in establishing its arbitrary, ergo,… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
It's awful undermining to the intellect, German is; you want to take it in small doses, or first you know your brains… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Creation is a book proclaiming the Creator. It is a book of beauty that our intellect reads, but through the passageways of… — Thomas Dubay Copy Share Image
What makes a subject difficult to understand if it is significant, important is not that some special instruction about abstruse… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
I have heard that whoever loves is in no condition old. I have heard that whenever the name of man is spoken,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The joy and smile of even one child is worth more than the prancing intellects of a thousand men. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The purpose of the painter is simply to reproduce in other minds the impression which a scene has made upon him. A… — George Inness Copy Share Image
Angels are able to know and understand better than the human intellect can, precisely because such knowledge and understanding comes to them… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
No matter how strong our resolve, we eventually find ourselves enslaved by the compulsive preference for one particular woman. You’ve been caught,… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
I am a firm believer in intelligent design as a matter of faith and intellect, and I believe it should be presented… — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
The eyes of a poet discover in each person a unique and irreplaceable humanity. While arrogant intellect seeks to control and manipulate… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
Avarice is to the intellect what sensuality is to the morals. — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
“Perfect understanding of the infinite requires limitless intellectual capacity; our undivided attention is better suited for humbler aspirations.” — Wayne Gerard Trotman Copy Share Image
The best historian is he who combines knowledge of the evidence with the largest intellect, the warmest human sympathy and the highest… — G. M. Trevelyan Copy Share Image
The intellect is a very nice whirligig toy, but how people take it seriously is more than I can understand. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
In the great battle of life, no brilliancy of intellect, no perfection of bodily development, will count when weighed in the balance… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Unlike later Neo-Platonists, Plotinus says that our souls are always connected to the universal intellect and that we never really fall away. — Peter Adamson Copy Share Image
In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial objects, especially tools to… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
One thing about being a painter is that if you have a dog you are naturally going to spend a lot of… — Ken Gillespie Copy Share Image
