Quote by Robert Boyle Download Open image “The dimness of our intellectual eyes Aristotle fitly compares to those of an owl at noonday.” — Robert Boyle ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare
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 Copy Share Image
Owls are wise. They are careful and patient. Wisdom precludes boldness. That is why owls make poor heroes. — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Aristotle, in spite of his reputation, is full of absurdities. He says that children should be conceived in the Winter, when the wind is in the North, and that if people marry too young the children will be female. He tells us that the blood of females is blacker then that of males; that the pig is the only animal… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
The ignorant man doesn't praise the wise as the owl doesn't praise the light. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
I shall never be persuaded that God hath shut up all light of learning within the lantern of Aristotle's brain. — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The great virtue, I think, of studying Aristotle - and, more importantly, taking him seriously as a possible teacher - is that he presents… — David Roochnik Copy Share Image
“Aristotle, we are invariably told, was "antiquity's most brilliant intellect," and the explanation of this weird assertion, I believe, is best summarized in Anatole France's words: The books that everybody admires are the books that nobody reads. But on taking the trouble to delve in Aristotle's writings, a somewhat different picture emerges. His ignorance of mathematics and physics, compared to… — Petr Beckmann Copy Share
“We need both Socrates and Aristotle in the search for knowledge, but in education today there is too much Aristotle and too little Socrates.” — Gregory J.E. Rawlins Copy Share Image
“You could give Aristotle a tutorial. And you could thrill him to the core of his being. Aristotle was an encyclopedic polymath, an all… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
But Aristotle's philosophy was the intellect's Declaration of Independence. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The least unhappy persons do, in so fickle and so tempestuous a sea as this world, meet with many more either cross winds or… — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
... even when we find not what we seek, we find something as well worth seeking as what we missed. — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
And first, it seems not at all probable, That if the Omniscient Author of Nature knew that the study of his Works did really… — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
The gospel comprises indeed, and unfolds, the whole mystery of man's redemption, as far forth as it is necessary to be known for our… — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
Divers things we agree to be knowledge, which yet are so uneasy to be satisfactorily understood by our imperfect intellects, that let them be… — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
Since a few minutes can turn the healthiest bodies into breathless carcasses, and put those very things which we had principally relied on into… — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
I consider then, that generally speaking, to render a reason of an effect or Phaenomenon, is to deduce It from something else in Nature… — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
As to the freeness or unmeritedness of Gods love, we need but consider that we so little could at first deserve his love, that… — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
The veneration, wherewith Men are imbued for what they call Nature, has been a discouraging impediment to the Empire of Man over the inferior… — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
Let there be an admiration of those divine attributes and prerogatives for whose manifesting he was pleased to construct this vast fabric. — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image