Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live--that productive work is the process by which man's consciousness controls his existence, a constant process of acquiring knowledge and shaping matter to fit one's purpose, of translating an idea...
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Ayn Rand
I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty.
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Mark Twain
In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagvat Geeta, since whose composition years of the gods have elapsed, and in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seem puny and trivial; and I doubt if...
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Henry David Thoreau
Because there are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others; the first is the most excellent, the second is good, the third is...
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Unknown
I only know that I know nothing
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Socrates
More Quotes By Marcus Tullius Cicero
While there's life, there's hope.
The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.
It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.
