We are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance. Our intercourse with intellectual nature is necessary; our speculations upon matter… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
.. the publication of Friedrich A. von Hayek's The Road to Serfdom in 1944 is rightly seen as the first shot in… — E. J. Dionne Copy Share Image
The spiritual experience isn’t one of filling ourselves up— with either religious or intellectual beliefs—but of emptying ourselves so that we can… — Kevin Griffin Copy Share Image
And one thing the void certainly can teach us is how to wait, how to become truly patient, and how to let… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
Men like Henry George [ the pioneer of land value taxation] are rare, unfortunately. One cannot imagine a more beautiful combination of… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In the case of Elektra I really wasn't sure I could pull it off. There were so many intellectual leaps. My character,… — Terence Stamp Copy Share Image
It is quite impossible these days to assume anything about people's educational level from the way they talk or dress or from… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Civilized people can talk about anything. For them no subject is taboo… In civilized societies there will be no intellectual bogeys at… — Clive Bell Copy Share Image
I sometimes try to imagine what would have happened if we’d known the bonobo first and the chimpanzee only later—or not at… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
Pedagogy is not about training, it is about critically educating people to be self reflective, capable of critically address their relationship with… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Human life is so strangely constituted that even perfected intellectual understanding combined with the richest experience is incapable of conquering innate weaknesses.… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
The Library is an open sanctuary. It is devoted to individual intellectual inquiry and contemplation. Its function is to provide free access… — Robert G. Vosper Copy Share Image
A delicate balance is required to combat violence perpetrated in the name of a religion, an ideology or an economic system, while… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Take the initiative. Go to work, and above all co-operate and don't hold back on one another or try to gain at… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
One is conscious of no brave and noble earnestness in it, of no generalized passion for intellectual and spiritual adventure, of no… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. Heaven… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Harvard is nerd rehab. You have to check yourself in. Those who seek a school filled with self-proclaimed 'nerds,' seek elsewhere. Dropping… — Alexandra Petri Copy Share Image
Ralph Bunche, who is an internationally recognized and respected diplomat, can't stay in a hotel in Georgia, which means that no matter… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Thus, in its relation to Christianity, intelligent design should be viewed as a ground-clearing operation that gets rid of the intellectual rubbish… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
I don't like comedy that I think is bad comedy, where people are trying to be sick for the sake of it,… — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
There are three intellectual pursuits, and, so far as I am aware, only three, in which human beings have performed major feats… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
I'm an intellectual Thatcherite, just as I was an intellectual Powellite, and I think it important that the Conservative party should be… — Maurice Cowling Copy Share Image
I think the term "intellectual property" should be avoided, not because it's a bad term, but because it mixes things up that… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
Friends, we have now won…I say to Aymaras, Quechuas, Chiquitaos, and Guaranis: for the first time we are going to be presidents.… — Evo Morales Copy Share Image
Evolution has encountered no intellectual trouble; no new arguments have been offered. Creationism is a home-grown phenomenon of American sociocultural history-a splinter… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
All propaganda must be so popular and on such an intellectual level, that even the most stupid of those towards whom it… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
There's a segment of this world, there's a mind state that's permeated the intellectual consciousness of this world that comes from a… — El-P Copy Share Image
For all those who are interested in the spiritual, emotional, intellectual, esthetic, historical or any other aspects of our dance art... It… — Padma Subrahmanyam Copy Share Image
Feel like Christ and you will be a Christ; feel like Buddha and you will be a Buddha. It is feeling that… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The ideas for my books come about in two ways. There can be an intellectual idea that seems to be the reason… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
The liberal professions, and in a wider sense the well-to-do classes, are certainly those with the liveliest taste for knowledge and the… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
For most students at universities around the country, studying entrepreneurship is a pleasant intellectual diversion, not a professional choice, path, or commitment. — Andrew Yang Copy Share Image
'Prison Notebooks' gives me a basic understanding of how power can influence people through cultural products and intellectual groups, so they will… — Okky Madasari Copy Share Image
What is an intellectual? In general, someone seriously devoted to what used to be called the “life of the mind”: thinking pursued… — Gary Gutting Copy Share Image
…the designer must be able to see - make a concentrated effort to absorb the essence of the project. Seeing is a… — Albert Hadley Copy Share Image
Christianity is not a series of truths in the plural, but rather truth spelled with a capital 'T.' Truth about total reality,… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
I think there are a lot of similarities between writing and music. Music is much more direct and much more emotional and… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
My first intellectual challenge was to try to understand this incredible city of Banaras (also called Varanasi) in India and its meaning… — Diana L. Eck Copy Share Image
When I first began acting, I assumed an intellectual responsibility attached to my profession, which I had accepted for a long time.… — Christopher Reeve Copy Share Image