It is easier taking the beaten path than making our way over bogs and precipices. The great difficulty in philosophy is to… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I realized a school doesn't need a School Committee or Trustees or Governors or lumber or approved textbooks. All a school needs… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I think all writers are always collecting characters as we go along. Not just characters of course, we're collecting EVERYTHING. Bits and… — Alexandra Sokoloff Copy Share Image
A … difference between most system-building in the social sciences and systems of thought and classification of the natural sciences is to… — Lawrence Joseph Henderson Copy Share Image
We are to regard the mind, not as a piece of iron to be laid upon the anvil and hammered into any… — Mark Hopkins Copy Share Image
A still photograph is something which you can always go back to. You can put it on your wall and look at… — Steve McCurry Copy Share Image
I pay attention to what's going on around me. I'm always looking for new energy, new talent, new voices. When you do… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
“He lay there realizing how thoroughly he'd removed himself from the world or obligations, how stupidly independent he'd become: he needed no… — A.M. Homes Copy Share Image
Going to religious places gives me clarity. When I am sitting there, I am in a state of gratitude with my defence… — Arjun Rampal Copy Share Image
“And it was then that Cohen began to feel the weight of the others in this house on this dot on the… — Michael Farris Smith Copy Share Image
I think people get excited about someone discovering something that blew their mind when they were younger. I think it makes people… — Tavi Gevinson Copy Share Image
When we become isolated, we are prone to being damaged; our minds lose their flexibility and natural kindness; we become vulnerable to… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
Come, my friend, forget your foes, and leave your fears behind, And wander forth to try your luck, with cheerful, quiet mind;… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
“The mind is the only level at which any lasting change can occur—it is the soil in which we plant our hopes… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
The average mind is slow in grasping a truth, but when the most thoroughly organized, centralized institution, maintained at an excessive national… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Christmas means 'giving,' and the gift without the giver is bare. Give of yourselves; give of your substance; give of your heart… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate,… — T. H. White Copy Share Image
So thirsty," Jack groaned. "So worried,"said the frog. I hope we don't starve to death." "Yes,"said Jill, "not starving to death would… — Adam Gidwitz Copy Share Image
Let us not envy a certain class of men for their enormous riches; they have paid such an equivalent for them that… — Jean de la Bruyere 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
To meet someone who really hurts you is to meet a rare and precious treasure. Hold that person in high esteem, and… — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Even in Europe a change has sensibly taken place in the mind of man. Science has liberated the ideas of those who… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We are bombarded on all sides by a vast number of messages we don't want or need. More information is generated in… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
Of all literary exercitations, whether designed for the use or entertainment of the world, there are none of so much importance, or… — William Warburton Copy Share Image
We don't stop talking about how the world might be better just because we have no chance of making it to Prime… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Intellect is not sexed;... strength of mind is not sexed; and ... our views about the duties of men and the duties… — Sarah Moore Grimke Copy Share Image
Our knowledge of circumstances has increased, but our uncertainty, instead of having diminished, has only increased. The reason of this is, that… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
“Clinton sighed, and gave up. All his life he had given up. He didn't know why it was like that; why a… — Jim Thompson Copy Share Image
When the human organism is discharging its negative experience efficiently, the mind is empty of past or future concerns; there is no… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
The mind turned inwards is the Self; turned outwards, it becomes the ego and all the world. Cotton made into various clothes… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
We are also told that this Spirit will enlighten our minds, fill our souls with joy, and help us know all things… — Julie B. Beck Copy Share Image
But what, after all, is faith? It is a state of mind that leads people to believe something - it doesn't matter… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
A powerful idea communicates some of its power to the man who contradicts it. Partaking of the universal community of minds, it… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“I realized that most thoughts are impersonal happenings, like self-assembling machines. Unless we train ourselves, the thoughts passing through our mind have… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
It crosses my mind that our generation may leave problems that are simply too hard for human society in the generations that… — Ross Garnaut Copy Share Image
The thing is, don't get me wrong, I still love scoring and I hate to lose but now I see myself more… — Thierry Henry Copy Share Image
Worry is the product of feverish imagination working under the stimulus of desires... It is a necessary resultant of attachment to the… — Meher Baba Copy Share Image
I didn't have a teen age at all. I didn't even look at boys, never mind... then suddenly it was like, 'Oh… — Anne-Marie Duff Copy Share Image
What I've done serves mostly to show that nearly all limits are self-imposed, a false construct of the mind. You can take… — Marshall Ulrich Copy Share Image
