#pow

These rare senses and powers of reasoning were given to be used freely, but not audaciously, to discover, not to pervert the truth. ↗

— William John Wills

#freely #given #pervert #powers #rare

The nations of antiquity rolled away in the current of ages, Israel alone remained one indestructible edifice of gray antiquity... preserved by an internal and marvelous power. ↗

— Isaac Mayer Wise

#alone #antiquity #away #current #edifice

Awaken its powers, and it will respect itself. ↗

— Francis Wright

#itself #powers #respect #will

Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought. ↗

— Lord Acton

#liberty #like #ought #power #right

Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#dissimilar #love is #power #see #similarity

I may be alone in this, but I do sense the power of film, in that movies have the ability to literally change people's minds. That's pretty powerful stuff when you consider that. ↗

— Nicolas Cage

#alone #change #consider #film #i

I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#around #aware #coincidences #dreams #emotions

Order is power. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#power

Metaphysical thinking will always no doubt be a strong element in her mentality, and it is to be hoped that she will never lose her great, her sovereign powers in that direction. ↗

— Sri Aurobindo

#direction #doubt #element #great #her

I would say invisibility would be sort of a fun power to have just to see what it was like to move through the world and not be looked at. ↗

— Kevin Bacon

#i #invisibility #just #like #looked