Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty
Scottish Enlightenment philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist, who is best known today for his high...
Knowledge is the life of mind
A companion and through his daughter Aisha, a father-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (PBUM), as well...
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed
American journalist, novelist, short-story writer, and noted sportsman.
All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone
French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and Catholic theologian.
Wonder is the desire of knowledge
Italian Dominican friar, Philosopher, Catholic priest, and Doctor of the Church. An immensely influential ph...
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differs from the dead
An ancient Greek philosopher and scientist born in the city of Stagira, Chalkidiki, Greece. Along with Plato...
if you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. if they don’t, they never were
Lebanese-American writer, poet, visual artist and Lebanese nationalist.
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in
Italian polymath of the Renaissance whose areas of interest included invention, drawing, painting, sculpting...
The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something
Sir Muhammad Allama Iqbal, was a poet, philosopher and politician, as well as an academic, barrister and sch...
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing
American polymath and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Franklin was a leading author, print...
