Activity Quote by Sidney Lanier

Every branch of knowledge which a good man possesses, he may apply to some good purpose.

— Claudius Buchanan

The precise form of an individual's activity is determined, of course, by the equipment with which he came into the world. In other words,…

— Henry Louis Gates

Man may become the master of himself, and of his environment, because he has the POWER TO INFLUENCE HIS OWN SUBCONSCIOUS MIND, and through…

— Napoleon Hill

“It is true that the genius of assembled men or of peoples is quite different from a man's character in private, and that one…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

We realise that natural aptitudes are not interchangeable, and each person must, of biological or spiritual necessity, practise the art for which he is…

— George William Russell

Man is to be trained chiefly by studying and by knowing man.

— William E. Gladstone

A person's genetic endowment, a product of the evolution of the species, is said to explain part of the workings of his mind and…

— B. F. Skinner

Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery.

— Arthur Machen

He who is only a traveler learns things at second-hand and by the halves, and is poor authority. We are most interested when science…

— Henry David Thoreau

Man is born as a freak of nature, being within nature and yet transcending it. He has to find principles of action and decision-making…

— Erich Fromm

The real difference between a man's scientific judgments about himself and the judgment of others about him is he has added sources of knowledge.

— Edward Thorndike

Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.

— Edmund Burke