The power of real debate is in the language and intellectual honesty of the debaters, alongside the engagement of spectators. — Ruzwana Bashir Copy Share Image
The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
The mind serves best when it's anchored in the Word of God. There is no danger then of becoming an intellectual without… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
History is an indispensable even though not the highest form of intellectual endeavor. — Carl L. Becker Copy Share Image
There's nothing on it worthwhile, and we're not going to watch it in this household, and I don't want it in your… — Philo Farnsworth Copy Share Image
Literary criticism is generally bunk. Nonsense. Usually based on self-serving post-intellectual bullshit. — John Fante Copy Share Image
It does not just happen. It is disclosed by science that practically one-half of trained intellectual resources are being mobilized for murderous… — Alva Myrdal Copy Share Image
A true intellectual is a man who, after reading a book and being convinced by its arguments, will shoot someone or, more… — John McCarthy Copy Share Image
It was at the graduate school at Columbia University that I first met Wesley C. Mitchell, with whom I was associated for… — Simon Kuznets Copy Share Image
Collaboration operates through a process in which the successful intellectual achievements of one person arouse the intellectual passions and enthusiasms of others. — Alexander von Humboldt Copy Share Image
Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety,… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
What good is a theory of how the universe works if it’s a series of tensor equations that, even when understood, come… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
It's important to celebrate the monogram. It's the DNA of Vuitton. I think - I hope - there is an interest in… — Delphine Arnault Copy Share Image
So basically, I think music at its best can be everything. It can be totally stupid and very intellectual and emotional at… — Ville Valo Copy Share Image
The trouble is the kind of guy I want to go out with doesn't even exist... Like a rugged, chain-smoking, intellectual, adventurer… — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
Poetry exists partly to undermine the certainties of an accepted intellectual system, by opening a fissure of awareness at which the reality… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Talent has the four seasons: spring, that is to say, the sowing of the seeds; summer, growth; autumn, the harvest; winter, intellectual… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Dull witted brooding people love to stuff themselves with quantities of heavy food, just like animals for fattening. Bubbly intellectual people love… — Carl Friedrich von Rumohr Copy Share Image
Today I have lost one of my dearest friends, England one of her greatest men. Keith Joseph understood that it was necessary… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
The highest reach of science is, one may say, an inventive power, a faculty of divination, akin to the highest power exercised… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
The rate of growth of the relevant population is much greater than the rate of growth in funds, though funds have gone… — Kenneth Arrow Copy Share Image
I feel with some passion that what we truly are is private, and almost infinitely complex, and ambiguous, and both external and… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“My pawing over the ancients and semi-ancients has been one struggle to find out what has been done, once and for all,… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Every man who has reached even his intellectual teens begins to suspect that life is no farce; that it is not genteel… — Henry James Sr Copy Share Image
If you are not thinking universally and intellectually, you can only remain flawlessly stagnant — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
I can't think why fancy religions should have such a ghastly effect on one's grammar. It's a kind of intellectual rot that… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
I've grown in maturity because I understood from an intellectual standpoint how serious Covid-19 is and all the effects it was having… — Harrison Barnes Copy Share Image
Almost all rich veins of original and striking speculation have been opened by systematic half-thinkers. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“An intellectual is some one who isn't exactly distinguished by his intellect. He claims that label to compensates for his inadequacies.” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
My parents were reasoned and deep thinkers. My dad is an intellectual and a literary man. — Steve Zahn Copy Share Image
“Down South we've always believed that if a man had intellectual abilities, they would show through on their own without his having… — Herman E. Talmadge Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the more that a person is an intellectual the more they are prone to misconceptions.” — Taiichi Ohno Copy Share Image
The mediocrity of everything in the great world of today is simply appalling. We live in intellectual slums. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
There are some remarks that are so stupid that to be even vaguely aware of them is the intellectual equivalent of living… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
We are united in the hope that every individual will someday enjoy at least the intellectual privileges we have had, if not… — Sidney Altman Copy Share Image
Belief, in one of its accepted senses, may consist in a merely intellectual assent, while faith implies such confidence and conviction as… — James E. Talmage Copy Share Image
Cease from practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words, and following after speech. — Dogen Copy Share Image
At its heart, all intellectual and emotional life is a conversation, and the conversation begins at birth. — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
My work is never intellectual. I never make a negative unless emotionally moved by my subject. — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
The forces that are driving mankind toward unity and peace are deep-seated and powerful. They are material and natural, as well as… — Arthur Henderson Copy Share Image
![“The highest reach of science is, one may say, an inventive power, a faculty of divination, akin to the highest power exercised in poetry; therefore, a nation whose spirit is characterised by energy may well be eminent in science; and we have Newton. Shakspeare [sic] and Newton: in the intellectual…” quote by Matthew Arnold](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/4d9/matthew-arnold-1235_authority_the-highest-reach-of-science-is-one-may_435278.jpg)
