Whoever prefers the material comforts of life over intellectual wealth is like the owner of a palace who moves into the servants’… — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
To invest successfully over a lifetime does not require a stratospheric IQ, unusual business insights, or inside information. What's needed is a… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
If, in any individual, university training produces a taste for refined idleness, a distaste for sustained effort, a barren intellectual arrogance, or… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Innovation is a twofold threat to academic mediocrities: it endangers their oracular authority, and it evokes the deeper fear that their whole,… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
There is, therefore, a more perfect intellectual life in the angels. In them the intellect does not proceed to self-knowledge from anything… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
We can code wills, escrows, trusts, notaries, revokable charge backs, proof of contracts, intellectual property enforcement. What Wall Street does can be… — Naval Ravikant Copy Share Image
If pro-abortionists want to commit intellectual suicide and deny scientific facts, that's their problem. But there's no reason a civilized society should… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
Agnosticism is not properly described as a "negative" creed, nor indeed as a creed of any kind, except in so far as… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Children should not be coddled in their intellectual training any more than in their physical; and though the studies should be made… — Arthur Lynch Copy Share Image
Mead's anthropology had many other red, white and blue- blooded virtues. One was the common anthropological conceit, out of which she made… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
“When, thirty-five years ago, I tried to give a summary of the ideas and principles of that social philosophy that was once… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
You know, sometimes I don't understand what's wrong with us. This is just about the most creative and imaginative country on earth—and… — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
Mystical experience of nature can be of particular relevance to our troubled age, bringing deeper into our consciousness and emotions the logic… — Carl von Essen Copy Share Image
“What is the role of intellectuals in Europe? There's this debate in which all speakers do not appear to me to even… — Martinus Hendrikus Benders Copy Share Image
The largest cultural menace in America is the conformity of the intellectual cliques which, in education as well as the arts, are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was starting to wonder if I was ready to be a writer, not someone who won prizes, got published and was… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
Yellow is a very favorable vibration for mental or intellectual activity, as it promotes a clear state of mind. Yellow heightens your… — Tae Yun Kim Copy Share Image
“Además no es tan malo vivir solo. Yo la paso bien, decidiendo a cada instante lo que quiero hacer, y gracias a… — Facundo Cabral Copy Share Image
Even the simple act that we call "going to visit a person of our acquaintance" is in part an intellectual act. We… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
One of the things that Ivar knew about Mrs. Walker was that she would only tell him what she knew if he… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
I'm very proud that some people think that I'm a danger for the intellectual health of students. When people start thinking of… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Only through the conscious action of the working masses in city and country can it be brought to life, only through the… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
Intellectuals ... regard over-simplification as the original sin of the mind and have no use for the slogans, the unqualified assertions and… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
And it doesn't matter to me whether you're running a coffee shop or you're an intellectual or you're in business or flying… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
The best way to measure the loss of intellectual sophistication - this "nerdification," to put it bluntly - is in the growing… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
I have never heard of anyone who was a "model person" in all aspects of his or her life, intellectual life or… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There are various forms of weaponry, intellectual weaponry, spiritual weaponry, political weaponry, economic weaponry. Because we are on the battlefield, and there… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
When my father died, my mother came back from being Mrs. Birkin to being Judy Campbell. She was a stunning actress. She… — Jane Birkin Copy Share Image
Of all forms of diversity that should be celebrated on university campuses, none is more important than supporting, nurturing, and promoting intellectual… — Gad Saad Copy Share Image
Intellectuals that read a lot of books might not have been interested in Mobb Deep before 'My Infamous Life,' but now they… — Prodigy Copy Share Image
What's exciting about theatre is observing human behaviour. You're constantly making judgments about body language, the physical, the emotional, the intellectual. — Hattie Morahan Copy Share Image
Earlier generations of machines decreased the complexity of tasks. In contrast, information technologies can increase the intellectual content of work at all… — Shoshana Zuboff Copy Share Image
A paradox: the same century invented history and photography. But history is a memory fabricated according to positive formulas, a pure intellectual… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
While scholars are comparing and contrasting theories, debating intellectual questions, and dividing humankind into categories, the world is changed by persons with… — Grey Owl Copy Share Image
The impediment to scientific thinking is not, I think, the difficulty of the subject. Complex intellectual feats have been mainstays even of… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
It's time that we acknowledge the wisdom women have acquired by managing the chaos of daily life. Women are realists, the glue… — Teresa Heinz Copy Share Image
“The masses have not always felt themselves to be frustrated and exploited. But the intellectuals that formulated their views for them have… — Joseph Alois Schumpeter Copy Share Image
All work is noble; the only ignoble thing is to live without working. There is need to realize the value of work… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Modern mathematics, that most astounding of intellectual creations, has projected the mind's eye through infinite time and the mind's hand into boundless… — Nicholas Murray Butler Copy Share Image
“It may be laid down as a general rule that if a man begins to sing, no one will take notice of… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
