Any strain upon a girl's intellect is to be dreaded, and any attempt to bring women into competition with men can scarcely… — Elizabeth Missing Sewell Copy Share Image
“We do not measure a culture based on its output of undisguised trivialities, but what it claims as significant.” — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which… — F. Murray Abraham Copy Share Image
“The Sufis,' runs the saying, 'understand with their hearts what the most learned scholars cannot understand with their minds” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
Theory is good for the intellect, but action is good for the soul. It's also good for your mental health, your physical… — Robert Ringer Copy Share Image
People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty… — Tadao Ando Copy Share Image
“Inspiration without intellect is useless and dangerous; and the poet will be able to perform few wonders, when he is astonished by… — Novalis Copy Share Image
It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence. — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
Ordinary people waited till life disclosed to them its secrets, but to the few, to the elect, the mysteries of life were… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The English mind is always in a rage. The intellect of the race is wasted in the sordid and stupid quarrels of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The Holy Spirit, out of compassion for our weakness, comes to us even when we are impure. And if He finds our… — Evagrius Ponticus Copy Share Image
Understanding created by the intellect cannot be acquired by means of the occult, only by the aid of the zodiac, bringing forth… — Nostradamus Copy Share Image
The Nobel Prizes are much more than awards to scholars; they are a celebration of civilization, of mankind, and of what makes… — Stanley B. Prusiner Copy Share Image
Worship power-you will feel weak and afraid, and you will need ever ore power over others to keep the fear at bay.… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
To become truly immortal a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once… — Giorgio de Chirico Copy Share Image
Novelty is indeed necessary to preserve eagerness and alacrity; but art and nature have stores inexhaustible by human intellects, and every moment… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
In Islamic belief, knowledge is two-fold. There is that revealed through the Holy Prophet (s.a.s.) and that which man discovers by virtue… — Aga Khan IV Copy Share Image
There was no point in seeking to convert the intellectuals. For intellectuals would never be converted and would anyway always yield to… — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
Do you believe that the God of Jesus loves you beyond worthiness and unworthiness, beyond fidelity and infidelity—that he loves you in… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“...and it is characteristic of the young to become bound to an older and wiser man not only by the spell of… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Our knowledge of the historical worth of certain religious doctrines increases our respect for them, but does not invalidate our proposal that… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
My career as a critic still lay in the future but unconsciously I may have been preparing for it. They were not… — Diana Trilling Copy Share Image
If I'm one that's afflicted with same-gender attraction, I should strive to see myself in a much broader context... seeing myself as… — Lance B. Wickman Copy Share Image
The essence of all jokes, of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well intended halfness; a non performance of that… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is no art form that has so much in common with film as music. Both affect our emotions directly, not via… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
There is not enough high intellect to be catered to and when most people think of Hiphop they think of low intellect. — Slick Rick Copy Share Image
Untilled ground, however rich, will bring forth thistles and thorns; so also the mind of man. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Intellectually curious men become generalists. Intellectually lazy men settle for being specialists.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“The mouse is a picture of the restless, nervous intellect, which cannot find the quiet depth of true insight.” — Wolf-Dieter Storl Copy Share Image
“Do not let your intellect steer you away from what your eyes have seen. Neither should you let it deny what your… — Ashavan Copy Share Image
You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns. — Mark Twain 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
Compassion is nothing one feels with the intellect alone. Compassion is particular; it is never general. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Atheists determine there is no God based on their own intellect. I've determined there is a God based on His intellect.” — William Branks Copy Share Image
“Wisdom is not an exclusive possession of the intellectual parts of the society.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Useful manual labour, intelligently performed, is the means par excellence for developing the intellect. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Intellect is not a gift, it's an application. However, if you don't have any common sense youre fucked in navigating through it! — Nicole Hill Copy Share Image
Let us watch against pride in every shape-pride of intellect, pride of wealth, pride of our own goodness. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
The gods offer no rewards for intellect. There was never one yet that showed any interest in it... — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Our intellect is not intended to be an end in itself, but only a means to the very mind of God. — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
