Men S Understandings Quotes

#1. Religion, to have any force upon men's understandings,
indeed, to exist at all,
must be supposed paramount to law, and independent for its substance upon any human institution, else it would be the absurdest thing in the world,
an acknowledged cheat.

Edmund Burke

#2. The difference, so observable in men's understandings and parts, does not arise so much from their natural faculties, as acquired habits.

John Locke

#3. Defects and weakness in men's understandings, as well as other faculties, come from want of a right use of their own minds; I am apt to think, the fault is generally mislaid upon nature, and there is often a complaint of want of parts, when the fault lies in want of a due improvement of them.

John Locke

#4. No great goal was ever easily achieved.

Margaret Thatcher

#5. When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied.

John Woolman

#6. How much wit, good-nature, indulgences, how many good offices and civilities, are required among friends to accomplish in some years what a lovely face or a fine hand does in a minute!

Jean De La Bruyere

#7. Sleep, baby, sleep. Thy father's watching the sheep. Thy mother's shaking the dreamland tree, and down drops a little dream for thee.

Elizabeth Prentiss

#8. About seven years later I was given a book about the periodic table of the elements. For the first time I saw the elegance of scientific theory and its predictive power.

Sidney Altman

#9. Dwelling is not primarily inhabiting but taking care of and creating that space within which something comes into its own and flourishes.

Martin Heidegger

#10. I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.

Xavier Rudd

#11. In best understandings, sin began, Angels sinned first, then Devils, and then Man.

John Donne

#12. How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
[Lat., O miseras hominum menteis! oh, pectora caeca!]

Lucretius

#13. The job of a theoretical physicist is to make mistakes as fast as possible .

John Archibald Wheeler

#14. When your life is over, the world will ask you only one question: 'Did you do what you were supposed to do?'

Korczak Ziolkowski

#15. Men are sponges, which, to pour out, receive;
Who know false play, rather than lose, deceive.
For in best understandings sin began,
Angels sinn'd first, then devils, and then man.
Only perchance beasts sin not ; wretched we
Are beasts in all but white integrity.

John Donne

#16. There is to some men a great Lechery in Lying, and imposing on the understandings of beleeving people.

John Aubrey

#17. rapport-building is 'subtlety'. Rapport is the

Owen Fitzpatrick

#18. If you study the classic examples of endgame play you will see how the king was brought up as soon as possible even though there seemed no particular hurry at the time.

Alexander Kotov

#19. I hold that such a question can never arise except in a society of cannibals.

Ayn Rand

#20. There are some Men of one, some but of two Syllogisms, and no more; and others that can but advance one step farther.

John Locke

#21. We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world.

Jack Gilbert

#22. If you would train your children rightly, train them in the way they should go and not in the way they would.

J.C. Ryle

#23. Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.

Lord Chesterfield

#24. Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.

Aimee Mullins