| The mind petrifies if a circle be drawn around it, and it can hardly be that dogma draws a circle round the mind. -- George Moore |
| Author:
Moore, GeorgeEra:
1852 |
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| To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual. -- Oscar Wilde |
| Author:
Wilde, OscarEra:
1854 |
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| Know thou the self (spirit) as riding in a chariot, The body as the chariot. Know thou the intellect as the chariot-driver, And the mind as the reins. The senses, they say, are the horses; The objects of sense, what they range over. The self combined with senses and mind Wise men call "the enjoyer." -- Upanishads |
| Author:
UpanishadsEra:
-800 |
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| An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. -- Albert Camus |
| Author:
Camus, AlbertEra:
1913 |
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| 'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures. -- Michel De Montaigne |
| Author:
Montaigne, Michel DeEra:
1533 |
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| All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "Facts". They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. |
| Author:
Holmes Sr., Oliver WendellEra:
1809 |
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| All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work. -- Calvin Coolidge |
| Author:
Coolidge, CalvinEra:
1872 |
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