When a man sought knowledge, it would not be long before it could be seen in his humbleness, his sight, upon his… — Hasan of Basra Copy Share Image
Great truths are portions of the soul of man; Great souls are portions of eternity. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
A critical knowledge of the evolution of the idea of property would embody, in some respects, the most remarkable portion of the… — Lewis Henry Morgan Copy Share Image
No spoon has yet destroyed a mouth, but the knife of war cuts portions that are hard to swallow. Perhaps the big… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
The portion we see of human beings is very small: their formats and faces, voices and words.... beyond these, like an immense… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
People have libraries at home, they have bookshelves, they have CDs. And they sort of try, people try to bring great artists… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I still believe that for good business analysts a concentrated portfolio is a good strategy combined with a long term horizon. Once… — Joel Greenblatt Copy Share Image
I am convinced with Plato , with St. Paul, with St. Augustine, with Calvin , and with Leibnitz, that this universe, and… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
Everyone alters and is altered by everyone else. We are all the time taking in portions of one another or else reacting… — Gerald Brenan Copy Share Image
There's certainly a portion of my brain that is always tuned to making wry observations about the world, but that portion of… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
The curse of mortality. You spend the first portion of your life learning, growing stronger, more capable. And then, through no fault… — Brandon Mull Copy Share Image
All so-called revealed religions consist mainly of three portions, a cosmogony more or less mythical, a history more or less falsified, and… — Richard Francis Burton Copy Share Image
Oh, how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The body oppressed by excesses bears down the mind, and depresses to the earth any portion of the divine spirit we had… — Horace Copy Share Image
It is superfluous to try by the standards of theory, a part of the constitution which is allowed on all hands to… — James Madison Copy Share Image
To be without health insurance in this country means to be without access to medical care. But health is not a luxury,… — Alexander Schindler Copy Share Image
In the industrial age and in analog clocks, a minute is some portion of an hour which is some portion of a… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
The incessant struggle of the mind to be true to itself, to absorb new truths, to grow, to overcome pressures--these are the… — Howard Mumford Jones Copy Share Image
For, as has been indicated from the innate experience as well as from the longings within, a home - home - with… — Edgar Cayce Copy Share Image
in a world where only a minor portion of the land is really well suited to agriculture, man is using much of… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
A man who has once perceived, however temporarily and however briefly, what makes greatness of soul, can no longer be happy if… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Though the parallel is not complete, it is safe to say that science will never touch them unaided by its practical applications.… — Arthur Balfour Copy Share Image
Even the lifelong traveler knows but an infinitesimal portion of the Earth's surface. Those who have written best about the land and… — Edwin Way Teale Copy Share Image
You can make an interesting character in a small portion of a movie, for a character that doesn't have that much on… — Joel Kinnaman Copy Share Image
