“I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness - a real thorough-going illness.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Say what men may, it is doctrine that moves the world. He who takes no position will not sway the human intellect. — William Greenough Thayer Shedd Copy Share Image
Time is, in fact, a cross to bear, it passes on inexorably and remorselessly, destroying everything in its wake, save art and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Feminism is a political mistake. Feminism is a mistake made by women's intellect, a mistake which her instinct will recognize. — Valentine de Saint-Point Copy Share Image
It is true that the unknown is the largest need of the intellect, though for it, no one thinks to thank God. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Descartes recommended that we distrust the senses and rely on the ... use of our intellect. — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous in everything. The person of synthetic or constructive intellect, in almost nothing. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Perfecting one's intellect causes one to speak less, and those words spoken will be adorned with wisdom. — Ali ibn Abi Talib Copy Share Image
... the physical and domestic education of daughters should occupy the principal attention of mothers, in childhood: and the stimulation of the… — Catharine Beecher Copy Share Image
The approach of intellect or noesis will forever be an effete and limited sort of thing by contrast with the vigor and… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Our intellect, our awareness, and our consciousness is the most powerful form of life on this planet. It's totally worthwhile. If our… — James McAvoy Copy Share Image
“Thinking he knows can be a trap. An ex-professor once told him he had a diamond-hard intellect and he’d been flattered at… — Margaret Atwood 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
Compassion is more important than intellect in calling forth the love that the work of peace needs, and intuition can often be… — Betty Williams Copy Share Image
There have been times when only a hair's-breadth has intervened betwixt myself and the seething devil-ridden world of madness; for the hideous… — Clark Ashton Smith Copy Share Image
Eighty percent of our life is emotion, and only 20 percent is intellect. I am much more interested in how you feel… — Frank Luntz Copy Share Image
There is no thing as a man who does not create mathematics and yet is a fine mathematics teacher. Textbooks, course material-these… — Alfred Adler Copy Share Image
She is a reflection of comfortable middle-class values that do not take seriously the continuing unemployment. What I particularly regret is that… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
As every writer knows... there is something mysterious about the writer's ability, on any given day, to write. When the juices are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It is a secret which every intellectual man quickly learns, that, beyond the energy of his possessed and conscious intellect, he is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I do believe that we all are, fundamentally, divided creatures. Emotions split from intellect, spirit from flesh and far too often sexuality… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
Meditative state is the highest state of existence. So long as there is desire, no real happiness can come. It is only… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Compare King William with the philosopher Haeckel. The king is one of the anointed by the most high, as they claim—one upon… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
If a man is rich and strong anywhere, it must be on his native soil. Here I have been these forty years… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism...the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That alone can be called true refinement which elevates the soul of man, purifying the manners by improving the intellect. — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
A language does not become fixed. The human intellect is always on the march, or, if you prefer, in movement, and languages… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Only ‘he’, who becomes free from his intellect, can become sarvagna (Omniscient).” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Zen culture invites us to experience reality without the intervening distractions of intellect, categories, analysis. — Tom Hoover Copy Share Image
The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“Upon the one thing every writer absolutely must have, and that is intellectual curiosity.” — Phillip Athans Copy Share Image
There is nothing more perplexing in life than to know at what point you should surrender your intellect to your faith. — Margot Asquith Copy Share Image
Of course we all know Biden is the intellect of the Democratic Party. Kind of a grin with a body behind it. — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
The bad guys I play don't want to be bad. It's the struggle between the part of them that's an animal and… — Henry Czerny Copy Share Image
Our intellect has created a new world that dominates nature, and has populated it with monstrous machines. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The tyranny of necessity grants its slaves three kinds of freedom: opinion free from intellect, entertainment free from art, and orgies free… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity these, three and a place in society where no one of the three can be… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
It is important to value intellect and discipline, of course, but it is also important to recognize the power of irrationality, enthusiasm… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
The joy and smile of even one child is worth more than the prancing intellects of a thousand men. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Philosophy is man’s expression of curiosity about everything and his attempt to make sense of the world primarily through his intellect. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
