Ants Quote by Mortimer Adler Download Open image “Not to engage in this pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.” — Mortimer Adler ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ants Engaging Ideas Live life Living my life Men Motivational Moving forward Moving on Pursuit
Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men. — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
Men love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they are to die for it. And… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I do not see why we should not be as just to an ant as to a human being. — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It is not men that interest or disturb me primarily; it is ideas. Ideas live; men die. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
An idea built the wall of separation between the sexes, and an idea will crumble it to dust. — Sarah Moore Grimke Copy Share Image
We don't need men with new ideas as much as we need men who will put energy behind the old ideas. — William Feather Copy Share Image
An idea isn't worth much until a man is found who has the energy and ability to make it work. — William Feather Copy Share Image
Still we live meanly like ants, though the fable tells us we were long ago changed into men. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I am teaching you to live simply. To live with an idea is a very complicated living, it is cunning. To live simply, just… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives. — William James Copy Share Image
I wonder if most people ever ask themselves why love is connected with reproduction. And if they do ask themselves about this, I wonder… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
A good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read better; you also learn more… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
We are selfish when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good for ourselves. We are altruistic when we are exclusively or predominantly… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
Habits are formed by the repetition of particular acts. They are strengthened by an increase in the number of repeated acts. Habits are also… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
There is a strange fact about the human mind, a fact that differentiates the mind sharply from the body. The body is limited in… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
Think how different human societies would be if they were based on love rather than justice. But no such societies have ever existed on… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
I suspect that most of the individuals who have religious faith are content with blind faith — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
Teachers may think they are stuffing minds, but all they are ever affecting is the memory. Nothing can ever be forced into anyone's mind… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
The love which moves the world, according to common Christian belief, is God's love and the love of God. — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
Angels are able to know and understand better than the human intellect can, precisely because such knowledge and understanding comes to them by way… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
Some people are like ants. Give them a warm day and a piece of ground and they start digging. There the similarity ends. Ants… — Hal Borland Copy Share Image
Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel. — Karel Capek Copy Share Image
Pray look upon the plants and birds, the ants, spiders, and bees, and you will see them all exerting their nature, and busy in… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
People are like ants: Just a few of them give all the orders. And most of them spend their lives getting squashed. — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“Some people are ants by nature; they have to work, even when it’s useless. Few people have a talent for constructive laziness.” — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
There's a good case to be made that having fun is a key evolutionary advantage right next to opposable thumbs in terms of importance.… — Raph Koster Copy Share Image
“THE FIGHTERS ARE TINY. INSECTS, REALLY. BUT ANTS CAN SLAY AN ELEPHANT, IF THERE ARE ENOUGH OF THEM. ESPECIALLY ANTS ARMED WITH HIGH-YIELD EXPLOSIVES… — Amie Kaufman Copy Share Image
We know of no behavior in ants or any other social insects that can be construed as play. — Bert Holldobler Copy Share Image
Oh, ants, my sisters, good old honeydew-seekers! From close up you are sticky and shiny and gristly; and your nymphs have parasitic red mites… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
Albert and I would spend hours and hours looking at them. Cleo had this big magnifying glass on his desk, and we'd find centipedes… — Fannie Flagg Copy Share Image
When someone criticizes or disagrees with you, a small ant of hatred and antagonism is born in your heart. If you do not squash… — Rumi Copy Share Image
