I like to hide behind my intellect. But the truth is, unless all of us start getting honest about what the reality… — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
Every one complains of a poor memory, no one of a weak judgment. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
He who devoutly strives to attain wisdom and is on his guard against the invisible powers, should pray that both natural discrimination… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
It is a law in the universe that a wave of spiritual awakening is always followed by a period of doubting materialism,… — Max Heindel Copy Share Image
“When we have learnt to call storms, storms, and death, death, and birth, birth, when we have mastered the sailor's horn-book and… — Henry de Vere Stacpoole Copy Share Image
He stood there for a moment looking around the silent room, shaking his head slowly. All these books, he thought, the residue… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
We are underbred and low-lived and illiterate; and in this respect I confess I do not make any very broad distinction between… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
To cultivate the intellect is therefore a religious duty; and when this truth is fairly recognized by men, the religion which teaches… — William Winwood Reade Copy Share Image
The grinding of the intellect is for most people as painful as a dentist's drill. — Leonard Woolf Copy Share Image
... anything so delightful as Washington I have never seen elsewhere. There were a mingled simplicity and grandeur, a mingled state and… — M. E. W. Sherwood Copy Share Image
We ourselves can die with comfort and even with joy if we know that death is but a passport to blessedness, that… — Matthew Simpson Copy Share Image
There should be no separation between spontaneous work with an emotional tone and work directed by the intellect. Both are supplementary to… — Armin Hofmann Copy Share Image
The key to success in any kind of start up is your level of persistence. It's not so much your intellect. The… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
I have three brothers and they're all into computers. They're all intellects. My mother would pay me a quarter a page to… — Josh Holloway Copy Share Image
We have each chosen the circumstances of our births in order to carry out our soul's purposes. And these purposes can't always… — Christiane Northrup Copy Share Image
No ability, no strength and force, no power of intellect or power of wealth, shall avail us, if we have not the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Neither drink [coffee or tea] was known in Frankish lands, but seated in the coffeehouses, I drank of each at various times,… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties. — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
Reason cannot account for those moments in life that "bewilder the intellect yet utterly quiet the heart," as G.K. Chesterton observed. — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
What the founders of modern science, among them Galileo, had to do, was not to criticize and to combat certain faulty theories,… — Alexandre Koyre Copy Share Image
Beginning with a critique of my own limbs, which she said, justly enough, were nothing to write home about, this girl went… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'd love for my ambition and will and intellect and sense of humour to define me as well. I'm definitely responsible for… — Eva Mendes Copy Share Image
I think there's too much mixing fashion and intellect. Fashion ultimately is designed to cover the human body, to give you joy,… — Suzy Menkes Copy Share Image
We are more sociable, and get on better with people by the heart than the intellect. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image