Self-reliance leads to intellectual independence. Each man must think for himself, must train the mind to think, must habituate the soul to… — Ameen Rihani Copy Share Image
I can't stand theory because it is imposed by the intellectual. And the intellectual is, by definition, not a creative person. The… — Mary Pratt Copy Share Image
I think, in the initial process of discovering a character and the analytical process - and this is what I did take… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
Some specialist guitar music is not of the highest intellectual calibre, so I must make it sound as though it is. If… — Julian Bream Copy Share Image
I am continually amazed by the credence given to religious claims in the intellectual community; and, as a human being, i am… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
It seems to me a fundamental dishonesty, and a fundamental treachery to intellectual integrity to hold a belief because you think it's… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Nothingis so ungrateful as a rising generation; yet, if there is any faintest glimmer of light ahead of us in the present,… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
One of the things that made me suffer no regret when I was called away from the cramped intellectual jail of atheism… — John C. Wright Copy Share Image
I actually think that my films are intellectual. I think almost everything I do is intellectual, but I would never say that,… — John Waters Copy Share Image
Leibniz endeavored to provide an account of inference and judgment involving the mechanical play of symbols and very little else. The checklists… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
Great women scholars like Jane Harrison and Gisela Richter were produced by the intellectual discipline of the masculine classical tradition, not the… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These, by some occult process of nature, are penetrated and suffused with various… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Politically, the goal of today’s dominant trend is statism. Philosophically , the goal is the obliteration of reason; psychologically , it is… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
As with many metaphysical and religious questions, Kant thinks they lie beyond our power to answer them. If you can't stand the… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
The capacity for the accomplishment of religious virtuosos the "intellectual sacrifice" is the decisive characteristic of the positively religious man. That this… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
There was a transition going on - Baghdad being the intellectual capital of the world where major advances were made in agriculture… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The first society in history whose leaders were neither Attilas nor Witch Doctors, a society led, dominated and created by the Producers,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
What makes a tight circle or a tight little square box more of an intellectual statement than something done emotionally, I don't… — Eva Hesse Copy Share Image
Mengistu seemed to symbolize the revolution. He was the baria, the slave who overthrew the master, the member of the conquered tribe… — Mengistu Haile Mariam Copy Share Image
In fact, there is clear evidence of black intellectual superiority: in 1984, 92 percent of blacks voted to retire Ronald Reagan, compared… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
If we had intellectual vigour enough to ascend from effects to causes, we would explain political, economical and social phenomena less by… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
I like to look good, but I like my body to function well more than anything. For me, it's as spiritual and… — Will Smith Copy Share Image
Some popular quotations smell of airless closets. They exhale the stale imagination of the intellectual lower middle class. "Suspension of disbelief" has… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
The notion of saving the planet has nothing to do with intellectual honesty or science. The fact is that the planet was… — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
“You are welcome to your intellectual pastimes and books and art and newspapers; welcome, too, to your bars and your whisky that… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Yes, I am positive that one of the great curatives of our evils, our maladies, social, moral, and intellectual, would be a… — Charles Wagner Copy Share Image
I do not believe that the present flowering of science is due in the least to a real appreciation of the beauty… — Derek Barton Copy Share Image
The act of focusing our mightiest intellectual resources on the elusive goal of goto-less programs has helped us get our minds off… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You know how much I admire Che Guevara. In fact, I believe that the man was not only an intellectual but also… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I believe that the 21st century economy is an economy of people, not of factories. The intellectual factor has become increasingly important… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Against my will, I became a witness to the most terrible defeat of reason and to the most savage triumph of brutality… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Turning 50 is a little bit of a 'taking stock' moment. I feel probably a little dumber. I don't think I'm as… — Flea Copy Share Image
Past and future monopolize the poet’s sensory and intellectual faculties, detached from the immediate spectacle. These two philtres become utterly clear the… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
Punk rock really came out of N.Y. as a philosophy before the groups were ever recorded. I had a kind-of intellectual interest… — Greg Ginn Copy Share Image
I was moving among two groups... who had almost ceased to communicate at all, who in intellectual, moral, and psychological climate had… — C.P. Snow Copy Share Image
Even at my biggest, I want to be writing for other artists. Even at my peak - the highest I can be… — Keri Hilson Copy Share Image
Deafness, though it be total and congenital, imposes no limits on the intellectual development of its subjects, save in the single direction… — Edward Miner Gallaudet Copy Share Image
When words do not enter as factors into a shared situation, either overtly or imaginatively, they operate as pure physical stimuli, not… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
A typical mathematician does not actively try to be useful. Individual mathematicians are motivated primarily by a subtle mixture of ambition and… — Timothy Gowers Copy Share Image
