Abstemiousness in diet and control of the passions, will preserve the intellect and give mental and moral vigor, enabling men to bring… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
Modern man's besetting temptation is to sacrifice his direct perceptions and spontaneous feelings to his reasoned reflections; to prefer in all circumstances… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
If God has made the world a perfect mechanism, He has at least conceded so much to our imperfect intellect that in… — Max Born Copy Share Image
Passion, intellect, moral activity - these three have never been satisfied in a woman. In this cold and oppressive conventional atmosphere, they… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
I see the world in ways that might be considered somewhat harsh and Darwinistic. At the same time mediated, as in Darwin,… — Joyce Carol Oates 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
If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
There's something advantageous about having people underestimate your intellect, insomuch as a lot of things are revealed to you. They assume you… — Ashton Kutcher Copy Share Image
“From the time when the exercise of the intellect became a source of strength and of wealth, we see that every addition… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
In ordinary life, we are not aware of the unity of all things, but divide the world into separate objects and events.… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
“I read a page of Plato's great work. I can no longer understand anything, because behind the words on the page, which… — Eugène Ionesco Copy Share Image
One thing about having mostly absent parents that I think was perhaps "good" for the development of my intellect/writing is that I… — Marie Calloway Copy Share Image
Science would not be what it is if there had not been a Galileo, a Newton or a Lavoisier, any more than… — Norman Robert Campbell Copy Share Image
My soul is an entangled knot, Upon a liquid vortex wrought By Intellect in the Unseen residing, And thine doth like a… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have… — Anonymous 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
The eye is the window of the soul, the mouth the door. The intellect, the will, are seen in the eye; the… — Hiram Powers Copy Share Image
Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated; it satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time rewarding… — Arnold Palmer Copy Share Image
What was lost in the European cataclysm was not only the Jewish past--the whole life of a civilization--but also a major share… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
Once one assumes an attitude of intolerance, there is no knowing where it will take one. Intolerance, someone has said, is violence… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Fancy, an animal faculty, is very different from imagination, which is intellectual. The former is passive; but the latter is active and… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
If Christianity is really true, then it involves the whole man, including his intellect and creativeness. Christianity is not just 'dogmatically' true… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
Service is God. Why has God endowed man with a body, a mind and an intellect ? Feel with the mind, plan… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think, you have to forget about intellect, to a degree. Intuition is very important when you're working with a lens, I… — John Hurt 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
Obstinacy is a fault of temperament. Stubbornness and intolerance of contradiction result from a special kind of egotism, which elevates above everything… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
Paul indeed wanted to reveal the unknown God to the philosophers and then affirms of Him, that no human intellect can conceive… — Nicholas of Cusa Copy Share Image
Where the vivacity of the intellect and the strength of the passions exceed the development of the moral faculties the character is… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
The orthodox believers in God are divided into two camps, one of which maintains that the existence of God is as demonstrable… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
The drama embraces and applies all the beauties and decorations of poetry. The sister arts attend and adorn it. Painting, architecture, and… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
It should be noted that the seeds of wisdom that are to bear fruit in the intellect are sown less by critical… — Carl von Clausewitz 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
Speak of the appetite for drink; or of a bon-vivant's relish for dinner! What are these mere animal throes and ragings compared… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
While so much is said of the inferior intellect of woman, it is by a strange absurdity conceded that very many eminent… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
The loss of these tastes [for poetry and music] is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I'd always been scared of people with tertiary education and high intellects in case they found me wanting. I thought they viewed… — Billy Connolly Copy Share Image
a towering intellect, grand in its achievements, and glorious in its possibilities, may, with the moral and spiritual faculties held in abeyance,… — Frances Harper Copy Share Image
A lamp does not flicker in a place where no wind blows; so it is with a yogi, who controls his mind,… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
“As the Latin poet Horace once noted, the intellect of the mind knows nothing. Instead, people use it to make common sense… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
“Needless to say, that meant that the Braekbills student body was quite the psychological menagerie. Carrying that much onboard cognitive processing power… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
![“What was lost in the European cataclysm was not only the Jewish past--the whole life of a civilization--but also a major share ofthe Jewish future… [ellipsis in source] It was not only the intellect of a people in its prime that was excised, but the treasure of a people in its potential.” quote by Cynthia Ozick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/fc9/cynthia-ozick-2945_civilization_what-was-lost-in-the-european-cataclysm_217972.jpg)
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