I take higher ground. I hold that in the present state of civilization, where two races of different origin, and distinguished by… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
There is a fundamental law that the tissue of the human body will waste away through idleness and disuse. Conversely, muscles and… — Clarence Robison Copy Share Image
It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Everything we know has its origin in questions. Questions, we might say, are the principal intellectual instruments available to human beings. Then… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Now that science has helped us to overcome the awe of the unknown in nature, we are the slaves of social pressures… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
Anecdote: Greatness Means Leading the Way. No stream is large and copious of itself, but becomes great by receiving and leading on… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Women stand related to beautiful nature around us, and the enamoured youth mixes their form with moon and stars, with woods and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Emotional self-control is NOT the same as overcontrol, the stifling of all feeling and spontaneity…when such emotional suppression is chronic, it can… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
I was taught that the world had a lot of problems; that I could struggle and change them; that intellectual and material… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
Self-worth is an understanding on the intellectual level, trusting at the heart level, and accepting at the soul level that you are… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
“God is not an alternative to science as an explanation, he is not to be understood merely as a God of the… — John Lennox Copy Share Image
Nothing is more dangerous than to stop working. It is a habit that can soon be lost, one that is easily neglected… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The truth, I am convinced, is that there is no longer a poetical audience among the higher class of minds, that moral,… — Thomas Love Peacock Copy Share Image
Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action. Their acquisition… — Midge Decter Copy Share Image
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What is charm, it is not a moral quality, it is not intellectual for no man by much thinking is able to… — Flora Thompson Copy Share Image
The books I made, most of those books were made in the '80s or early '90s. I was reacting emotionally at that… — Crispin Glover Copy Share Image
In Buddhism, both learning and practice are extremely important, and they must go hand in hand. Without knowledge, just to rely on… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
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I found that I faced a highly complex situation, and that I couldnt hope to change it until I had armed myself… — Anwar Sadat Copy Share Image
It's refreshing, honestly, to be able to have more intellectual conversations about sex and the meaning of sex, and intimacy and what… — Lizzy Caplan 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
Only the [Catholic] Church stood squarely across the path of Hitler’s campaign for suppressing truth. I never had any special interest in… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Progress is slow partly from mere intellectual inertia. In a subject where there is no agreed procedure for knocking out errors, doctrines… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
Helping children at a level of genuine intellectual inquiry takes imagination on the part of the adult. Even more, it takes the… — Dorothy H Cohen Copy Share Image
But the lack of faith could just as well be a crutch for non-believers, allowing them to live their lives without any… — Michael Coren Copy Share Image
So long as a man remains a gregarious and sociable being, he cannot cut himself off from the gratification of the instinct… — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
I have made a great discovery. I no longer believe in anything. Objects don't exist for me except in so far as… — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
Whoever is fortunate enough to be an American citizen came into the greatest inheritance man has ever enjoyed. He has had the… — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
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I need somebody who can at least stand up to me and slug it out, toe to toe. I don't mean a… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
But what of the voice and judgment of conscience? The difficulty is that we have a conscience behind our conscience, an intellectual… — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
With respect to the authority of great names, it should be remembered that he alone deserves to have any weight and influence… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
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We recognize that our progress as a species does not have to be defined in terms of wealth or material and physical… — Wes Jackson Copy Share Image
Abraham Lincoln did have intellectual instincts, a tremendous curiosity on a broad range of subjects, and a near-photographic memory for what he… — Allen C. Guelzo Copy Share Image
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Tunisia's responsibility, and especially that of its political and intellectual elites, is enormous. All the protagonists of the nation's social, cultural, economic… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
Philosophers get attention only when they appear to be doing something sinister--corrupting the youth, undermining the foundations of civilization, sneering at all… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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