Man is like a tree, with the mighty trunk of intellect, the spreading branches of imagination, and the roots of the lower… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
But I cannot recite, even thus rudely, laws of the intellect, without remembering that lofty and sequestered class of men who have… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is impossible to pursue a successful literary career and follow the advice of all one's 'best friends'.I feel compelled to follow… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
...When a man first awakens, it sometimes takes several moments before he starts thinking clearly." "And here I thought it took several… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Education develops the intellect; and the intellect distinguishes man from other creatures. It is education that enables man to harness nature and… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
If men were but to read the New Testament with the same tone and emphasis, with which they do other books, and… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
“Perhaps I occasionally sought to give, or inadvertently gave, to the student a sense of battle on the intellectual battlefield. If all… — Carl-Gustaf Rossby Copy Share Image
The epoch of doubt and transition during which the Greeks passed from the dim fancies of mythology to the fierce light of… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
A woman cannot live in the light of intellect. Society forbids it. Those conventional frivolities, which are called her 'duties', forbid it.… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
You could give Aristotle a tutorial and you could thrill him to the core of his being. Aristotle was an encyclopedic polymath,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The process of inner self-examination brings about a knowledge that is as rigorous and supported by evidence as anything science has to… — Jacob Needleman Copy Share Image
You are Life passing through your body, passing through your mind, passing through your soul. Once you find that out, not with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“No, there's going to be no even tenor with me. The more uneven it is the happier I shall be. And when… — Richard Halliburton Copy Share Image
But for me, dinner at a fine restaurant was the ultimate luxury. It was the very height of civilization. For what was… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
Pharisaism, obtuseness and tyranny reign not only in the homes of merchants and in jails; I see it in science, in literature,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
The English mind is intelligent rather than intellectual. The French are intellectual in the sense that the intellect is emancipated and left… — Ralph Barton Perry Copy Share Image
Intellectual work is an act of creation. It is as if the mental image that is studied over a period of time… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal Copy Share Image
There is no difference between the worry of a human mother and an animal mother for their offspring. A mother's love does… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
In matters of the intellect, do not pretend that conclusions are certain which are not demonstrated or demonstrable. That I take to… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
“When you paint your lips, eye lids, nails or whatever, to look attractive, don't forget your up stairs(intellect) if you leave it… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
...I feel most deeply that the whole subject is too profound for the human intellect. A dog might as well speculate on… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect. Men do not quarrel about… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Leadership is the sum of those qualities of intellect, human understanding, and moral character that enables a person to inspire and control… — John A. Lejeune Copy Share Image
Imagination is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by study, but by the intellect being where and what… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as… — Edward Thorndike Copy Share Image
I like Colin Powell, I like his West Indian background, I like his intellect, I like a lot of things that he… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that human survival will continue to depend more and more on human intellect and technology. It is idle… — Theodosius Dobzhansky Copy Share Image
Think day and night, I am of the essence of that Supreme Existence, Knowledge, Bliss-what fear and anxiety have I? This body,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Here in India, it is religion that forms the very core of the national heart. It is the backbone, the bed-rock, the… — Swami Vivekananda 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
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
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
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
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
Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running… — Ralph Cudworth Copy Share Image
Acts of bravery don't always take place on battlefields. They can take place in your heart, when you have the courage to… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas… — Edward Hopper Copy Share Image
