Veneration of Mark Twain is one of the roots of our current intellectual stalemate. — John Kennedy Toole Copy Share Image
To get people emotionally involved in something intellectual and political is important. — Maggie Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
Something about the cultural tradition of Jews is way, way more sympathetic to science and learning and intellectual pursuits than Islam. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
We always come back to the same vicious circle - an extreme degree of material or intellectual poverty does away with the… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Intellectuals are not defined according to the jobs they do, but by the manner in which they act, the way they see… — Frank Furedi Copy Share Image
I'm really only interested in building this intellectual movement. The I.D.W. has bigger goals than anyone's buzz or celebrity. — Eric Weinstein Copy Share Image
To sing about freedom and to pray for its coming is not enough. Freedom must be actualized in history by oppressed peoples… — James H. Cone Copy Share Image
We must destroy all which in the present school answers to the organization of constraint, the artificial surroundings by which children are… — Francesc Ferrer i Guardia Copy Share Image
What I look for when I see a piece of art for the first time is some kind of emotional, intellectual experience,… — Cheech Marin Copy Share Image
“An intellectual is usually someone who isn't exactly distinguished by his intellect . . . He claims that label to compensate for… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
The guesses which serve to give mental unity and wholeness to a chaos of scattered particulars, are accidents which rarely occur to… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Beginning under the Roman Empire, intellectual leadership in the West had been provided by Christianity. In the middle ages, who invented the… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
There can be no doubt that distrust of words is less harmful than unwarranted trust in them. Besides, to distrust words, and… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
If the religious experience were simply some naive impression of the uninformed it would not have resulted in such intellectual insight, such… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
My basic idea is that programming is the most powerful medium of developing the sophisticated and rigorous thinking needed for mathematics, for… — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
For me, one of the highlights of being in the private equity world is that you need to learn a lot and… — David Bonderman Copy Share Image
It is an unfortunate fact that every man who seeks to disseminate knowledge must contend not only against ignorance itself, but against… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
One of the greatest challenges facing civilization in the twenty-first century is for human beings to learn to speak about their deepest… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
It's clearly a crisis of two things: of consciousness and conditioning. We have the technological power, the engineering skills to save our… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
If I write a paragraph and I don't get a certain lift from it, if I don't feel connected to it emotionally,… — Oscar Hijuelos Copy Share Image
Intellectual culture seems to separate high art from low art. Low art is horror or pornography or anything that has a physical… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
By day, or on a cloudless night, a pilot may drink the wine of the gods, but it has an earthly taste;… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
It's very important to remember that it's your intellectual property; it's not your computer. And in the pursuit of protection of intellectual… — Stewart Baker Copy Share Image
I have an intellectual inclination for democratic institutions, but I am instinctively an aristocrat, which means that I despise and fear the… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I think teenagers bring a lot of intellectual sophistication. They're wrestling with big questions. It's just that, a lot of times they… — John Green Copy Share Image
I mean, we're all going to die. We know that on an intellectual level. We figure it out when we're still fairly… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
The progress of dynamic ideals will not be eternally blocked. Through general, moral and intellectual advancement... shall the latent aspiration of justice… — Abraham Isaac Kook Copy Share Image
But I contend that the disgusting behavior of many of their alleged 'holy men' relieves us of any intellectual obligation to take… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Film is an emotional medium; it's not a logical medium. It's not an intellectual medium, so every decision you make as a… — Paul Haggis Copy Share Image
Mountains and deserts, with their sparse life at the limit of existence, make one restless and disconsolate; one becomes an explorer in… — George Schaller Copy Share Image
I liked the idea of working outside, using my body and my mind together. I haven't been disappointed! Land surveying can be… — Mark Mason Copy Share Image
Look at guys like Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers. Those guys have great arms, but people talk about them more as a… — Patrick Mahomes Copy Share Image
I had my father's mind, but he had his mother's mind. Fortunately, his mother lived with us and so I early realized… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
What then is the intellectual advantage of civilization over primitive savagery? It is not necessarily that each civilized man has more knowledge… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
When a new project comes along, I want to know that the experience is going to be challenging and exciting. Part of… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
Writers are interested in a diverse range of subjects, but prefer to move from field to field to satisfy intellectual curiosity, rather… — Robert W. Bly Copy Share Image
With all due respect, many in the entertainment industry are deep into mind-altering substance abuse, and when one's logic and intellectual calculating… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
I'm not really all that familiar with comic book culture. Not because I'm such a high brow intellectual and bloody European. But… — Christoph Waltz Copy Share Image
All religious systems enslave the mind. Certain things are demanded-certain things must be believed-certain things must be done-and the man who becomes… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Because ethics is fundamentally about questioning the ends, the goals and aims of our actions, we must come back to the rules… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
