I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist. — William Golding Copy Share Image
I was not naturally intellectual, but somebody whose interest had to be whetted, still the case sadly. — Jeremy Irons Copy Share Image
Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The United States may have retained more of the intellectual imprint of the British 18th century than Britain itself. — William Rees-Mogg Copy Share Image
In Shankaracharya we saw tremendous intellectual power, throwing the scorching light of reason upon everything. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
[Geology] opens up such wide intellectual vistas and supplies a more perfectly unified and more comprehensive conception of nature than any other… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
“There are very few intellectual elites and those who think they are, are merely not and those who are not shows us… — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
Social engaged intellectuals must accept reality as they found it and shape it toward positive social goals, not stand aside in self-righteous… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“Kupata maarifa kutokana na shida ni jambo la kawaida, lakini kupata maarifa bila shida ni hekima.” — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
It is quite clear that compelling content, which is made available on economic terms that respect the intellectual rights of owners, can… — John Doerr Copy Share Image
They sent me away to teach me how to be sensible, logical, responsible, practical. And they showed me a world where I… — Roger Hodgson Copy Share Image
American life is a powerful solvent. It seems to neutralize every intellectual element, however tough and alien it may be, and to… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Furthermore, the spirit of enterprise which had its first intellectual development in England has especially flourished here as well as throughout all… — Charles E. Wilson Copy Share Image
Believe me when I tell you that thrift of time will repay you in after life, with a usury of profit beyond… — Herbert Gladstone, 1st Viscount Gladstone Copy Share Image
“If culture did not filter, it would be inane — as inane as the formless, boundless Internet is on its own. And… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I look upon those who would deny others the right to urge and argue their position, however irksome and pernicious they may… — William Borah Copy Share Image
I'm an ambitious person, and Harvard makes me feel successful, just having gotten in here. That's the ugly side of why I'm… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
Random search for data on ... off-chance is hardly scientific. A questionnaire on 'Intellectual Immoralities' was circulated by a well-known institution. 'Intellectual… — Hans Selye Copy Share Image
Dark influences from the American past congregate among us still. If we are a democracy, what are we to make of the… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
The university is a vast public utility which turns out future workers in today's vineyard, the military-industrial complex. They've got to be… — Mario Savio Copy Share Image
When mental development is under discussion, there are many who say, 'How does movement come into it? We are talking about the… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Man doth seek a triple perfection: first a sensual, consisting in those things which very life itself requireth either as necessary supplements,… — Richard Hooker Copy Share Image
No thought, no idea, can possibly be conveyed as an idea from one person to another. When it is told it is… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Philosophers have very justly remarked that the only solid instruction is that which the pupil brings from his own depths; that the… — Joseph Marie, baron de Gerando Copy Share Image
“Imagine a young Isaac Newton time-travelling from 1670s England to teach Harvard undergrads in 2017. After the time-jump, Newton still has an… — Geoffrey Miller Copy Share Image