Caution and conservatism are expected of old age; but when the young men of a nation are possessed of such a spirit,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
...congenital killers and criminals are possessed of not one but two Y chromosomes, bearing a double dose, as it were, of genetically… — Elizabeth Gould Davis Copy Share Image
Socrates.- If all goes well, the time will come when one will take up the memorabilia of Socrates rather than the Bible… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
War both needs and generates certain virtues; not the highest, but what may be called the preliminary virtues, as valor, veracity, the… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
For centuries, epilepsy was the exact expectation of someone being possessed by the Devil. There was no better explanation, and it allows… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Everyone seems possessed with the desire of writing articles upon me and sends me long lists of all I am to say. — Kate Greenaway Copy Share Image
Phronimos, possessing practical wisdom . But the only virtue special to a ruler is practical wisdom; all the others must be possessed,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing. Could I have remembered, as some men… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
We cannot believe that the church of God is already possessed of all that light which God intends to give it; nor… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
An obstinate man does not hold opinions, but they hold him; for when he is once possessed with an error, it is,… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
As a matter of selective necessity, man is an agent. He is, in his own apprehension, a centre of unfolding impulsive activity-'teleological… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
I had spent some time in the outback, but to meet Aboriginals and work with them was wonderful. It gave me a… — Hugh Jackman Copy Share Image
The rainbow is such a remarkable phenomenon of nature, and its cause has been so meticulously sought after by inquiring minds throughout… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
Paradise had four rivers that watered the earth.... and howsoever neglected by many, they make glad the city of God. So Bernard… — Thomas Adams Copy Share Image
We have reached the point where we are now possessed of sufficient information for each individual human to dare to exercise the… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
I don't believe there is one woman within the confines of this state who does not believe in birth control. I never… — Crystal Eastman Copy Share Image
The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Mr. Darwin's hypothesis is not, so far as I am aware, inconsistent with any known biological fact; on the contrary, if admitted,… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
“One of the most painful realizations in life, is to all of a sudden discover that you had possessed things all along,… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
It was a ludicrous, insane situation in which modern fighting men, possessed all of the highly destructive engines of war, were ordered… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We cannot see anything until we are possessed with the idea of it, take it into our heads,--and then we can hardly… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The tenacious character I've possessed since I was a small child propelled me to successfully meet this challenge, and I was able… — Koichi Tanaka Copy Share Image
Both therapy and friendship possessed the common denominator of discovering a self. — Dorothy Gilman Copy Share Image
Promiscuity does not scare me as long as she is savvy and self possessed when puberty comes to call. My aim is… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
