The most dangerous aspect of present-day life is the dissolution of the feeling of individual responsibility. Mass solitude has done away with… — Eugenio Montale Copy Share Image
The professional military mind is by necessity an inferior and unimaginative mind; no man of high intellectual quality would willingly imprison his… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Now I know I am an intellectual. I saw Malcolm Muggeridge on the television last night, and I understood nearly every word.… — Sue Townsend Copy Share Image
We see our mobile initiatives as a way to bring our intellectual properties and our gameplay experiences to a larger population than… — Reggie Fils-Aime Copy Share Image
I won a Marshall scholarship to read philosophy at Oxford, and what I most wanted to do was strengthen public intellectual culture… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
The time-state of attainment eliminates so accurately the time-state of aspiration, that the actual seems the inevitable, and, all conscious intellectual effort… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
What I do is I write mainly about very personal and rather lonely feelings, and I explore them in a different way… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
Both Brutus and Hamlet are highly intellectual by nature and reflective by habit. Both may even be called, in a popular sense,… — Andrew Coyle Bradley Copy Share Image
Mathematics is not arithmetic. Though mathematics may have arisen from the practices of counting and measuring it really deals with logical reasoning… — Christopher Zeeman Copy Share Image
That is my job as an intellectual, as an extension of my vocation: to engage in a serious reckoning with the present… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
The agnostic, the skeptic, is neurotic, but this does not imply a false philosophy; it implies the discovery of facts to which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
War, like all other situations of danger and of change, calls forth the exertion of admirable intellectual qualities and great virtues, and… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
Whoever would not remain in complete ignorance of the resources which cause him to act; whoever would seize, at a single philosophical… — Franz Joseph Gall Copy Share Image
Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Well, my contention is that the political system of this country is so designed criminally to prevent this, that if the black… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Perhaps the best reason for regarding mathematics as an art is not so much that it affords an outlet for creative activity… — Morris Kline Copy Share Image
When I watch a film, I watch it as an audience instead of thinking as an actor or an intellectual. I see… — Sonakshi Sinha Copy Share Image
One of my books is a hallucinogen, an aphrodisiac, a mood elevator, an intellectual garage door opener, and a metaphysical trash compactor.… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The apostles were moved, not so much by an intellectual apprehension, as by a spiritual illumination. They met men, and the need… — Roland Allen Copy Share Image
I approached the idea of college with the expectation of taking part in an intellectual feast. ... In college, in some way… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Many studies have established the fact that there is a high correlation between vocabulary and intelligence and that the ability to increase… — Bergen Evans Copy Share Image
The philosophical implication of race-thinking is that by offering us the mystery of heredity as an explanation, it diverts our attention from… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
To the indefinite, uncertain mind of the American radical the most contradictory ideas and methods are possible. The result is a sad… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief… — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
The teacher who allows his scholars the freedom of the city of books is at liberty to be their guide, philosopher and… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
Avarice is a uniform and tractable vice; other intellectual distempers are different in different constitutions of mind. That which soothes the pride… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Can a woman become a genius of the first class? Nobody can know unless women in general shall have equal opportunity with… — Anna Garlin Spencer Copy Share Image
The Chinese have made a faustian pact with the government, agreeing to forsake demands for political and intellectual freedom in exchange for… — Ma Jian Copy Share Image
Les trois quarts de nos exercices intellectuels ne sont plus que broderies sur le vide. Three quarters of our intellectual performances are… — Stephanie Crayencour Copy Share Image
I think there's a quality of passion to the American actor. I'm certainly attracted to it, and I like to hope that… — Arthur Penn Copy Share Image
I am just postmodern enough not to trust 'postmodern' as a description of our times, for it privileges the practices and intellectual… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
My family are observant Muslims, but I've come to the faith through an intellectual conviction, and that's something that they've taught me.… — Randa Abdel-Fattah Copy Share Image
Legendary innovators like Franklin, Snow, and Darwin all possess some common intellectual qualities—a certain quickness of mind, unbounded curiosity—but they also share… — Steven Johnson Copy Share Image
I would like to attribute my range of interests to being an independent intellectual, but although I'm independent, I'm not sure I… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
In a knowledge economy, natural selection favors organizations that can most effectively harness and coordinate collective intellectual energy and creative capacity. — Justin Rosenstein Copy Share Image
“real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If I can't find a theme, I can't make a film anyone else will feel. I can't laugh at intellectual humor. I'm… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
People who were not active in the intellectual life of the country could go on without feeling restricted, except they could not… — Stefan Heym Copy Share Image
That the sweetly intoxicating three-four rhythm which took hold of hand & foot, necessarily eclipsed great & serious music & made the… — Eduard Hanslick Copy Share Image
To set aside one’s prejudices, one’s present needs, and one’s own self interest in making a decision as a director for a… — Mervyn King Copy Share Image
