There are dons who care for the intellect and the imagination, and there are priests who care for the spirit; but broadly… — Hugh Kingsmill Copy Share Image
A dead language is not only one no longer spoken or written, it is unyielding language content to admire its own paralysis.… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I am delighted to have you play football. I believe in rough, manly sports. But I do not believe in them if… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The object of geometry in all its measuring and computing, is to ascertain with exactness the plan of the great Geometer, to… — Benjamin Peirce Copy Share Image
I have problems with a religion which says that faith in itself is enough for a ticket to heaven. In other words,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A state of things in which a large portion of the most active and inquiring intellects find it advisable to keep the… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“Intellect and love are made of different materials,” he said. “Intellect ties people in knots and risks nothing, but love dissolves all… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You carry that through and adapt it to a camera lens, but you're quite right, you cannot be sure of what an… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
No justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous. Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mathematical knowledge is not-as all Cambridge men are surely aware-the result of any special gift. It is merely the development of those… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
Man's quest for knowledge is an expanding series whose limit is infinity, but philosophy seeks to attain that limit at one blow,… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
Too, some of my teachers helped me to navigate those books, showed me the maps and paths and secret decoder rings -… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner, or before taking… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Dominion does not mean domination. We hold dominion over animals only because of our powerful and ubiquitous intellect. Not because we are… — Marc Bekoff Copy Share Image
It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
A man's life is of more value than a woman's. It has larger issues, wider scope, greater ambitions. Our lives revolve in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The power of a free people is often at the disposal of a single and seemingly an unimportant individual; a terrible and… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
In the isolation of his clear, cold intellect, the sceptic abides in a glacial and spectral universe. No glow from the affections… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
How infinitely happier and more grateful is the whole personality or spirit when it finds something nourishing in art or writing or… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
All good intellects have repeated, since Bacon's time, that there can be no real knowledge but that which is based on observed… — Auguste Comte Copy Share Image
“You are here,” Annan told the assembled freshmen, “for three reasons: Intellect! Intellect! Intellect!” One, two, three fingers stabbed the air as… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I had grown up among engineers, and I could remember the engineers of the twenties very well indeed: their open, shining intellects,… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
A theoretical physicist can spend his entire lifetime missing the intellectual challenge of experimental work, experiencing none of the thrills and dangers… — Leon M. Lederman Copy Share Image
Since the foundation of the world man has had nearly all the forces on his side, working with him and for him;… — Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford Copy Share Image
When an old and distinguished person speaks to you, listen to him carefully and with respect — but do not believe him.… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
The soul of the just man is but a paradise, in which, God tells us, He takes His delight. What do you… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
The intellect of most men is barren. They neither fertilize or are fertilized. It is the marriage of the soul with nature… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Is it true that man was once perfectly pure and innocent, and that he became degenerate by disobedience? No. The real truth… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“The Greeks made Space the subject-matter of a science of supreme simplicity and certainty. Out of it grew, in the mind of… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
We cannot control the way people interpret our ideas or thoughts, but we can control the words and tones we choose to… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
What the founders of modern science, among them Galileo, had to do, was not to criticize and to combat certain faulty theories,… — Alexandre Koyre Copy Share Image
Respect begins with this attitude: "I acknowledge that you are a creature of extreme worth. God has endowed you with certain abilities… — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
Post-wounded women know that postures of pain play into limited and outmoded conceptions of womanhood. Their hurt has a new native language… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
Then the soul, freed from vice, purged by studies of true philosophy, versed in spiritual life, and practised in matters of the… — Baldassare Castiglione Copy Share Image
“Scientific advancement carries risk,” Kohler argued. “It always has. Space programs, genetic research, medicine—they all make mistakes. Science needs to survive its… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
And I thought how sad it was that, for all our sophisticated intellect, for all our noble aspirations, our aggressive behavior was… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
“Know this, you can start over, every morning. Know that every day you have an opportunity to respond. Be educated, rather than… — Emma Mildon Copy Share Image
All goes to show that the soul in man is not an organ, but animates and exercises all the organs; is not… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Perception without the word, which is without thought, is one of the strangest phenomena. Then the perception is much more acute, not… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Nothing is more human than for man to desire naturally things impossible to his nature. It is, indeed, the property of a… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
