Angel Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

Chess holds deep wisdoms of the people. It is truly an image of life, the reflection of human fate that has shown us the…

— Pope John Paul II

Our efforts in chess attain only a hundredth of one percent of their rightful result... Our education, in all domains of endeavour, is frightfully…

— Emanuel Lasker

A great chess-player is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it. No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness.…

— William Hazlitt

Chess is the gymnasium of the mind.

— Anonymous

Chess never has been and never can be aught but a recreation. It should not be indulged in to the detriment of other and…

— Paul Morphy

Chess is so inspiring that I do not believe a good player is capable of having an evil thought during the game.

— Wilhelm Steinitz

A form of intellectual productiveness, therein lies its peculiar charm. Intellectual productiveness is one of the greatest joys - if not the greatest one…

— Siegbert Tarrasch

In chess there is a world of intellectual values.

— Gerald Abrahams

The passion for playing Chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world

— H. G. Wells

Chess is a game of understanding and not of memory.

— Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

The days when it was possible to win a serious game only by merit of sporting character or depth of chess understanding have vanished…

— Anatoly Karpov

All of us wrestle with the angels of our inabilities all the time. We live in fear that our incapacities will be exposed. We…

— Joan D. Chittister