“If a man has a capacity for great thoughts, he is likely to overtake them before he is decrepit.” — George Eliot 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
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
The intellect always cuts and divides like a pair of scissors. The heart sews things together and unites like a needle. The… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Intellect without will is worthless, will without intellect is dangerous. — Sun Tzu,” — Steven Gary Blank Copy Share Image
“Nothing complements a fast mind better than a slow tongue. And nothing aggravates a slow mind better than a fast tongue.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
... it is seldom a medical man has true religious views--there is too much pride of intellect. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole… — Alec Guinness Copy Share Image
The delight we find in art amounts to recognition of a saving grace, to an acknowledgment that the problem of life has… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
In fact Plotinus does believe in divine providence, though when he talks about divine providence, he talks about that providence being exercised… — Peter Adamson Copy Share Image
In art, truth and reality begin when one no longer understands what one is doing or what one knows, and when there… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
“One of the biggest problems with people who think that they are smart is that they believe that the number of times… — Daniel Willey Copy Share Image
I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by,… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
'L.A. Law' has been a bit of a blessing and a curse. First of all, it was a very prestigious show that… — Corbin Bernsen Copy Share Image
In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavad-Gita, in comparison with which our modern… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Antonio Gramsci said that social reformers should have pessimism of the intellect and optimism of the will. This means that one must… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
No intellect is needed to see those figures who wait beyond the void of death - every child is aware of them,… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
“I always feel the greatest bliss when I recollect those I have caught in my snares, for they generally are insolent, and… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
Developing a character with genuine depth requires a focus on not just desire but how the character deals with frustration of her… — David Corbett Copy Share Image
The forefathers of the United States were children of religious bigotry and persecution, and, as a result, fled Britain to create a… — Mike Medavoy Copy Share Image
Why should we desire the destruction of human passions? Take passions from human beings and what is left? The great object should… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“an essential distinction must be drawn between intellect and what I’ll call “intellectualism.” For my purposes throughout the book, the former is… — Evan Sayet Copy Share Image
The intellect, divine as it is, and all worshipful, has a habit of lodging in the most seedy of carcasses, and often,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“The civilized man is technologically ahead of — intellectually behind — his time.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The unanswerable mysteries... the attitude that all is uncertain... to summarize it - the humility of the intellect. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Skepticism rather than credulity is the highest principle that the human intellect can use to ennoble our existence. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The direction and constancy of the will is what really matters, and intellect and feeling are only important insofar as they contribute… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
The only basis for living is believing in life, loving it, and applying the whole force of one's intellect to know it… — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
Burn worldly love, rub the ashes and make ink of it, make the heart the pen, the intellect the writer, write that… — Guru Nanak Copy Share Image
It's obvious, but perhaps worth saying, that happiness has virtually nothing to do with the state of your intellect. — Daniel Keys Moran Copy Share Image
These are facts the heart can feel; yet they call for careful study before they become clear to the intellect. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Intellect has nothing to do with equality except to respect it as a sublime convention. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
“If human beings were really progressive creatures, then all boys would be smarter, healthier, and, wealthier, than their grandfathers.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Your age doesn't define your maturity, your grades don't define your intellect, and rumors don't define who you are. — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
I don't have a great intellect, and I can't compete with people who do. I feel certain things. And all I know,… — John Malkovich Copy Share Image
The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise… — John Major Copy Share Image
But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If you put your faith in yourself and your abilities, intellect and dreams, then your foundation is only as strong as you… — Charles Stanley Copy Share Image
To have a developed intellect is always helpful if one can enlighten it from above and turn it to a divine use. — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
