For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Cats exercise... a magic influence upon highly developed men of intellect. This is why these long-tailed Graces of the animal kingdom, these… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
Anger is the lowest emotion. It clouds the intellect and can make you do foolish things. You become blind to reason and… — Anand Neelakantan Copy Share Image
F.D.R. achieved greatness not by means of imposing his temperament and intellect on the world but by reacting to what the world… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
We now demand the light artillery of the intellect; we need the curt, the condensed, the pointed, the readily diffused - in… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
She had wandered, without rule or guidance, into a moral wilderness... Her intellect and heart had their home, as it were, in… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources -… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
Intellect in its effort to explain Love got stuck in the mud like an ass. Love alone could explain love and loving. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Even those to whom Providence has allotted greater strength of understanding, can expect only to improve a single science. In every other… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The intellect of man is forced to choose Perfection of the life, or of the work And if it take the second… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
The grinding of the intellect is for most people as painful as a dentists drill. — Leonard Woolf Copy Share Image
"Intellect is the knowledge obtained by experience of names and forms; wisdom is the knowledge which manifests only from the inner being;… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
When we say 'science' we can either mean any manipulation of the inventive and organizing power of the human intellect: or we… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
“Your average man is not intelligent enough not to fake being intelligent enough.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The education of the intellect is a great business; but an unconsecd intellect is the saddest sight on which the sun looks… — Edwin Chadwick Copy Share Image
Even in a crowded field, it is a rare pleasure to come across a prose stylist like Kellie Wells, whose intellect and… — Jaimy Gordon Copy Share Image
Sex cannot be understood because nature cannot be understood. Science is a method of logical analysis of nature's operations. It has lessened… — Camille Copy Share Image
My dear boy, the people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Brains and character rule the world. The most distinguished Frenchman of the last century said: Men succeed less by their talents than… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function; living is the functionary. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Character is far more important than intellect in making a man a good citizen or successful at his calling- meaning by character… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Man is neither mere intellect not the gross animal body, nor the heart or soul alone. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“There is a quality of lightness, easiness, and in some sense blatant unseriousness that pervades Classical Christianity's dialogue with modernity. The Christian… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whether on the ground of materialism, or of intellect, or of spirituality, the compensation that is given by the Lord to every… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
