Ability Quote by Henri Frederic Amiel

“The philosopher is like a man fasting in the midst of universal intoxication. He alone perceives the illusion of which all creatures are the…

— Henri-Frédéric Amiel

“He thought to himself how, in some future time, when these formidable scientific inventions would have changed the face of the earth, some wayward…

— John Cowper Powy's i Wolf Solent i

Has a philosopher like you failed to discover that our country is more to be valued and higher and holier far than mother or…

— Socrates

I should like to meet a philosopher like Nietzsche somewhere in a train or a steamer, and to spend the whole night talking to…

— Anton Chekhov

“Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human action, without…

— Mark Twain

You cannot believe what you are saying." "Well, no. Hardly ever. But the philosopher is like the poet. The latter composes ideal letters for…

— Umberto Eco

A true philosopher is like an elephant; he never puts the second foot down until the first one is solidly in place.

— Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

Fish sense, applied in the field, is what the old Zen masters would call enlightenment: simply the ability to see what's right there in…

— John Gierach

The highest type of intelligence, says Aristotle, manifests itself in an ability to see connections where no one has seen them before, that is,…

— J. M. Coetzee

Innovation is the ability to see change as an opportunity - not a threat

— Steve Jobs

The ability to see our lives as stories rather than unrelated, random events increases the possibility for significant and purposeful action.

— Daniel Taylor

People with vision master the ability to see through to the heart of issues and investments. They value transparency.

— Robert Kiyosaki

[Grew up in Hawaii] that gave [Barack Obama] a kind of optimism, an ability to see things, you know, and frankly, an ability to…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Many people meditate in order that a third eye may open. For that they feel they should close their two physical eyes. They thereby…

— Mata Amritanandamayi

Faith is the ability to see things that don't yet exist. Faith, though, can turn difficulty into reality, positive reality.

— Jim Rohn