The violinist must possess the poets gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate… — Yehudi Menuhin Copy Share Image
The most absolute authority is that which penetrates into a man's innermost being and concerns itself no less with his will than… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
There are interesting forms of difficulty, and there are unprofitable forms of difficulty. I mean, I enjoy some difficult poetry, but some… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
A sharp sense of the ironic can be the equivalent of the faith that moves mountains. Far more quicky than reason or… — Moss Hart Copy Share Image
If human love hath power to penetrate the veil--and hath it not?--then there are yet living here a few who have the… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
We tried to talk about [the Owls' zone], but it's hard to replicate it. It's nearly impossible to penetrate that zone. What… — Chris Mooney Copy Share Image
You gotta learn to love when you're failing… The embracing of that, the discomfort of failing in front of an audience, leads… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
Architecture is a small piece of this human equation, but for those of us who practice it, we believe in its potential… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
Mathematics is often erroneously referred to as the science of common sense. Actually, it may transcend common sense and go beyond either… — Edward Kasner 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
Our lives are full of supposes. Suppose this should happen, or suppose that should happen; what could we do; how could we… — Hannah Whitall Smith Copy Share Image
To make music means to express human intelligence by sonic means. This is intelligence in its broadest sense, which includes not only… — Iannis Xenakis Copy Share Image
Where war destroys, art inspires. And in order to inspire, you need to penetrate the brain. In order to penetrate the brain,… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
The religious man, the mystic, tries to explore the mystery of death. In exploring the mystery of death, he inevitably comes to… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Cultivate an ongoing stream of self-description, telling yourself what is happening. Get used to the idea that mind can penetrate the immediate… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
We often hear the teachers of all creeds lamenting the difficulty of keeping up in the minds of believers a lively apprehension… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
A major stimulant to creative thinking is focused questions. There is something about a well-worded question that often penetrates to the heart… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
It's not up to Google, it's not up to Apple to turn over our personal communications in order to save the country.… — John Kiriakou Copy Share Image
As Popa penetrates deeper into his life, with book after book, it begins to look like a Universe passing through a Universe.… — Ted Hughes Copy Share Image
Our dreams are a second life. I have never been able to penetrate without a shudder those ivory or horned gates which… — Gerard De Nerval Copy Share Image
Love is in the pleasure of possession, but in the Love of Allah there is no pleasure of possession, because the stations… — Mansur Al-Hallaj Copy Share Image
But mark, madam, we live amongst riddles and mysteries--the most obvious things, which come in our way, have dark sides, which thequickest… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
It is so easy to close down to risk, to protect ourselves against change and growth. But no baby bird emerges without… — Patricia Monaghan Copy Share Image
To the garden of the world anew descending, Potent mates, daughters, sons, preluding, The love, the life of their bodies, meaning and… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
It [the State] has taken on a vast mass of new duties and responsibilities; it has spread out its powers until they… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
It cannot but affect our philosophy favorably to be reminded of these shoals of migratory fishes, of salmon, shad, alewives, marsh-bankers, and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There do exist enquiring minds, which long for the truth of the heart, seek it, strive to solve the problems set by… — G. I. Gurdjieff Copy Share Image
Close reading of tough-minded writing is still the best, cheapest, and quickest method known for learning to think for yourself... Reading, and… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
A scientist sets out to conquer nature through knowledge - external nature, external knowledge. By these means he may split the atom… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
I believe in revelation, but not in revelation which each religion claims to possess, but in the living revelation which surrounds us… — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
Every person, every place and every action is qualified by this association with the unconditional; it penetrates every moment of daily life… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
The whole purpose of spiritual direction is to penetrate beneath the surface of a man's life, to get behind the façade of… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
In the secret of God's tabernacle no enemy can find us, and no troubles can reach us. The pride of man and… — Hannah Whitall Smith Copy Share Image
Because I am a Christian, therefore, every day in which I do not penetrate more deeply into the knowledge of God's Word… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
If you feel you can't forgive, ask God to penetrate your unforgiveness with His love. When we have to do the impossible,… — Stormie Omartian Copy Share Image
All Catholics must make themselves felt as active elements in daily political life in the countries where they live. They must penetrate,… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
It is unlikely that we will ever see a star being born. Stars are like animals in the wild. We may see… — Heinz Pagels Copy Share Image
Tempests, and bright lightnings, are to be sung; their nature is to be told, and from what cause they pursue their course;… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
The observer of the soul cannot penetrate into the soul, but there doubtless is a margin where he comes into contact with… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Heaven begun is the living proof that makes the heaven to come credible. Christ in you is "the hope of glory." It… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image