The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
Aldous Huxley

All that is true, by whomsoever it has been said has its origin in the Spirit.
Thomas Aquinas

The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.
John Burroughs

A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
Edmund Burke

Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise.
Joan Rivers

Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.
Eric Hoffer

What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.
John Updike

There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.
Lord Byron

I am a red man. If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place.
Sitting Bull

The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.
Bertrand Russell

If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man, he would have made me so in the first place.
Sitting Bull

I want to tell you that if the Great Spirit had chosen anyone to be the chief of this country, it is myself.
Sitting Bull

I am here by the will of the Great Spirit, and by his will I am chief.
Sitting Bull

Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit.
Sitting Bull

True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
William Penn

What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?
Michelangelo

Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed.
Albert Schweitzer

The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.
Albert Schweitzer

Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.
Honore de Balzac

If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.
John Kenneth Galbraith