A. E. Housman Quotes

All this is applicable to the intellectual faculties of man. There is a considerable difference between one person and another as regards these faculties, as is well known to philosophers.

The moral and intellectual character of the Africans is widely different in different nations.

I do not believe that Obama is smarter than anybody else. I do not believe he has cut a new path and is a politician unlike any we've ever seen regarding his intellect. I don't believe any of this hocus-pocus. I didn't believe it when they said it about Hillary, Smartest Woman in the World.

Man is neither mere intellect not the gross animal body, nor the heart or soul alone.

Man is messy, but any creature that can create space vehicles can probably cope.

Intellect is the soul of man, the only immortal part of him.

Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.

Either the conscious intellect is impotent, or is not sufficiently strong, or is not the factor positively connected with altruistic phenomenon generally or their sublime form particularly.

Shakespeare's personages live and move as if they had just come from the hand of God, with a life that, though manifold, is one, and, though complex, is harmonious.

The most reward experience is having another writer come up to you and say that they started writing because they read my books. That is how writing as a profession continues: readers becomes writers who inspire new readers.

Some people want tolerance to mean now that all ideas are equally valid. That's nonsense. There are some things that are right and there are some things that are wrong.

Brainpower is the scarcest commodity and the only one of real value.

The man was such an intellectual he was of almost no use.

My main influence is - it's music. It lifts the spirit. I am always listening to music. And sometimes what inspires me is a little sound or some small arrangement. I really do listen to music continuously all day long - very loud, so people can't stand to be around me anymore.

What is true for the emotions may also be true for the intellect. Some of our perplexities may come from a mismatch between the purposes for which our cognitive faculties evolved and the purposes to which we put them today.

Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss...." He turned to me. "But every once in a while, you find someone who's iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare.

Constraints inspire us in how we approach the press, how we approach business relationships, how we do everything.

The glory of man is that he is a thinking being. It is the nature of man to think and therein he differs from animals

Leaders create and inspire new leaders by instilling faith in their leadership abilities and helping them develop and hone leadership skills they don't know they possess.

If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it.

The delight we inspire in others has this enchanting peculiarity that, far from being diminished like every other reflection, it returns to us more radiant than ever.

The problem was , you never heard anyone say,"wow, check out the brain on that babe.

The object of universities is not to make skillful lawyers, physicians or engineers. It is to make capable and cultivated human beings

The physical body is assembled just like a chair or a building or a flower, but the revolutions we start, the people we affect and inspire, that is eternal. So, in that respect, we do achieve immortality, and that makes me less fearful.

There does not exist a man sufficiently intelligent never to be tiresome.