"Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature."

Nature, Power, Ideas, Ability

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"Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature."

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"Life is a flowing river. We came from earth and water. We will go back there after the magic of life."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Clear skies do not promise rain."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"Spring dances with joy in every flower and in every bud letting us know that changes are beautiful and an inevitable law of life."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"Every flower returns to sleep with the earth."

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"Spring is the only season that flutters in on gentle wings and builds nests in our hearts."

Toni Sorenson, American Author

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"A puddle repeats infinity, and is full of light; nevertheless, if analyzed objectively, a puddle is a piece of dirty water spread very thin on mud."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"To country people Cows are mild,And flee from any stick they throw;But I'm a timid town bred child,And all the cattle seem to know."

T. S. Eliot, American Poet

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"The sun rose slowly, as if it wasn't sure it was worth all the effort."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

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"Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"The real difference between a man's scientific judgments about himself and the judgment of others about him is he has added sources of knowledge."

Knowledge

"Human folk are as a matter of fact eager to find intelligence in animals."

Intelligence

"Some statements concern the conscious states of the animal, what he is to himself as an inner life; others concern his original and acquired ways of response, his behavior, what he is an outside observer."

Life

"On the whole, the psychological work of the last quarter of the nineteenth century emphasized the study of consciousness to the neglect of the total life of intellect and character."

Life

"Amongst the minds of animals that of man leads, not as a demigod from another planet, but as a king from the same race."

Animals

"So the animal finally performs in that situation only the fitting act."

Act

"To the intelligent man with an interest in human nature it must often appear strange that so much of the energy of the scientific world has been spent on the study of the body and so little on the study of the mind."

Nature

"Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man."

Science

"Nowhere more truly than in his mental capacities is man a part of nature."

Nature

"This growth in the number, speed of formation, permanence, delicacy and complexity of associations possible for an animal reaches its acme in the case of man."

Growth