Powerful Mind Quotes to Unlock Your Inner Potential - page 131

My imagination doesn\'t require anything more of the book than to provide a framework within which it can wander.
My imagination doesn't require anything more of the book than to provide a framework within which it can wander.
 Alphonse Daudet
Intellect is the ability to avoid belaboring the obvious.
 Alfred Bester
Being a mother adds another emotional dimension, a feel for children that I didn't have before I had one. They were a pain before.
 Julie Walters
Women are the victims of this patriarchal culture, but they are also its carriers. Let us keep in mind that every oppressive man was raised in the confines of his mother's home.
 Shirin Ebadi
Human intellect is incurably abstract.
The child, offered the mother's breast, Will not in the beginning grab it; But soon it clings to it with zest. And thus at wisdom's copious breasts You'll drink each day with greater zest.
I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
If thou art able, O stranger, to find out all these things and gather them together in your mind, giving all the relations, thou shalt depart crowned with glory and knowing that thou hast been adjudged perfect in this species of wisdom.
 Ivor Bulmer-Thomas
Give up is something that I never learned.
 Anonymous
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
 David Starr Jordan
The growth of property and the desire for its transmission to children was, in reality, the moving power which brought in monogamy to insure legitimate heirs, and to limit their number to the actual progeny of the married pair.
 Lewis Henry Morgan
We are alive and need to take risks. And if we fail, so what? Who cares? It doesn't matter. Learn and move on without judgement.
Movies are the art form most like man's imagination.
 Francis Ford Coppola
One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.
 Alan Bradley
The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
 John Burroughs
When human power becomes so great and original that we can account for it only as a kind of divine imagination, we call it genius
 William Crashaw
Men of gravity are intellectual stammerers, whose thoughts move slowly.
In recent times, modern science has developed to give mankind, for the first time in the history of the human race, a way of securing a more abundant life which does not simply consist in taking away from someone else.
 Karl Taylor Compton
The ugliest thing in the world is a beautiful woman without the brains or courage to know that [beauty] is nothing more than an accident.
The ugliest thing in the world is a beautiful woman without the brains or courage to know that [beauty] is nothing more than an accident.
 Charlie Fletcher
Then it crosses my mind, "But I’m a very busy woman! I don’t have time for a stroke!
 Jill Bolte Taylor