Arise, awake! This path is arduous. So we learn from the wise, and we have to follow in the footsteps of the… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
All men need something to poetize and idealize their life a little-something which they value for more than its use, and which… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
... as usual I am suffering much from doubt as to the worth of what I am doing and fear lest I… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Nothing makes me feel better - calmer, clearer and happier - than being in one place, absorbed in a book, a conversation,… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Surely, surely the only one true knowledge of our fellow man is that which enables us to feel with him--which gives us… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Informal relationships are not mere minor interstitial supplements to the major institutions of society. These informal relationships not only include important decision-making… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Where the citizen uses a mere sliver or board, the pioneer uses the whole trunk of a tree. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The mere dates of my existence do not interest me, except in one connection. When the Great War started I was too… — Laurence Housman Copy Share Image
The first gold star a child gets in school for the mere performance of a needful task is its first lesson in… — Philip Wylie Copy Share Image
The art of watching has become mere skill at rapid apperception and understanding of continuously changing visual images. The younger generation has… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am convinced that the world is not a mere bog in which men and women trample themselves and die. Something magnificent… — Charles A. Beard Copy Share Image
In the Gospels, for instance, we sometimes find the kingdom of heaven illustrated by principles drawn from observation of this world rather… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
A person's mere propinquity to others independently suspected of criminal activity does not give rise to probable cause to search that person. — Potter Stewart Copy Share Image
I have tasted but little bread in my life. It has been mere grub and provender for the most part. Of bread… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I fully agree with you about the significance and educational value of as well as history and philosophy of science. So many… — 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
Achievers have a can-do attitude that sets them apart from mere dreamers. Achievers are sold out to success-no matter the obstacles-and they… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
[Science] must be amoral by its very nature: The minute it begins separating facts into the two categories of good ones and… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Orderliness by itself is not sufficient to account for the nature of organized systems in general or for those created by man… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
The mere fact of leaving ultimate social control in the hands of the people has not guaranteed that men will be able… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
In the Navy, I slept mere feet from a nuclear reactor, so I have no knee-jerk opposition to traditional reactors. — Joe Sestak Copy Share Image