Character is the direct result of mental attitude. I believe that character is higher than the intellect. I believe that leadership is… — Vince Lombardi Copy Share Image
If his presidency is to represent the full power of the idea that black Americans are just like everyone else - fully… — Juan Williams Copy Share Image
... woman does not see what people of intellect perceived fifty years ago: that suffrage is an evil, that it has only… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“When not used as an instrument, the intellect becomes autonomous and dynamic and one can be sure that a man with such… — Marie-Louise von Franz Copy Share Image
Jesus did not get stuck in intellectual arguments with people. He did not go for the intellect; He went for the conscience.… — Kirk Cameron Copy Share Image
“The best response comes from action, not from intellect. For example, we may hear this question: “If love rules the world, why… — David Richo Copy Share Image
One of the many sad results of the Industrial Revolution was that we came to depend more than ever on the intellect,… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
It appears to be among the laws of nature, that the mighty of intellect should be pursued and carped by the little,… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
The devil is no fool. He can get people feeling about heaven the way they ought to feel about hell. He can… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Avoid all refined speculations; confine yourself to simple reflections, and recur to them frequently. Those who pass too rapidly from one truth… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
Man is a rational animal—so at least I have been told. … Aristotle, so far as I know, was the first man… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I am the way into the city of woe. I am the way to a forsaken people. I am the way into… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
The various systems of doctrine that have held dominion over man have been demonstrated to be true beyond all question by rationalists… — Wilfred Trotter Copy Share Image
And fantasy it was, for we were not strong, only aggressive; we were not free, merely licensed; we were not compassionate, we… — Toni Morrison 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
Agnosticism, in fact, is not a creed, but a method, the essence of which lies in the rigorous application of a single… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Not in vain is Ireland pouring itself all over the earth. The Irish, with their glowing hearts and reverent credulity, are needed… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
“For a poet is an airy thing, winged and holy, and he is not able to make poetry until he becomes inspired… — Plato Copy Share Image
In this world, the greatest rewards of success, wealth and happiness are usually obtained not through the exercise of special powers such… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
It is the activity of the intellect that constitutes complete human happiness - provided it be granted a complete span of life,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I am left with no choice but to acknowledge the existence of a superior Intellect, responsible for the design and development of… — Robert J. White Copy Share Image
Education is the chief remedy for all those great evils which afflict the country. Education will not only cultivate and improve the… — Keshub Chandra Sen Copy Share Image
When women make their image about youth and sexuality, and not about intellect, that's kind of a dead-end road. So I think… — K. D. Lang Copy Share Image
Malcolm X found the language that communicated across the board, from college professor to floor sweeper, all at the same time, without… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business - everything. I think you could have an intellectual ability, but if… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
Beautiful it is, and a gleam from the same eternal pole-star visible amid the destinies of men, that all talent, all intellect,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
There are people who live inside their heads and their intellects. It's something one is born with and stuck with. It's not… — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
“no matter how intelligent, perceptive and gifted you were, no matter how entirely you lived for the ascetic rewards of the intellect… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
“As I observe the lives of great individuals, I sense that the capacity of the brain is seemingly infinite. Wise men can… — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
How wonderful is the human voice! It is indeed the organ of the soul. The intellect of man is enthroned visibly on… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
There were sins whose fascination was more in the memory than in the doing of them, strange triumphs that gratified the pride… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Intellect needs to be understood not as some kind of claim against the other human excellences for which a fatally high price… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
I remember that the priest finally said to me, 'You wouldn't like to have a religion that makes things easy for you.'… — Don Adams 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
The poem in Where Good Swimmers Drown are love poems. But love poems that defy the divisions between emotion and intellect, private… — Jesse Lee Kercheval Copy Share Image
Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen… — Robert M. Hutchins Copy Share Image
. . . I fail to find a trace [in Protestantism] of any desire to set reason free. The most that can… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
The golden rule for understanding spiritually is not intellect, but obedience. If a man wants scientific knowledge, intellectual curiosity is his guide;… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
“When a man has once brought himself to accept uncritically all the absurdities that religious doctrines put before him and even to… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Intellect begins with the observation of nature, proceeds to memorize and classify the facts thus observed, and by logical deduction builds up… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
![“. . . I fail to find a trace [in Protestantism] of any desire to set reason free. The most that can be discovered is a proposal to change masters. From being a slave of the papacy, the intellect was to become the serf of the Bible.” quote by Thomas Huxley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/973/thomas-huxley-1183_bible_i-fail-to-find-a-trace-in-protestantism_1736418.jpg)
