The pursuit of truth is just a polite name for the intellectual's favorite pastime of substituting simple and therefore false abstractions for… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
As the humanities and liberal arts are downsized, privatized, and commodified, higher education finds itself caught in the paradox of claiming to… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
“A professional headshot in front of a bookshelf says you're an intellectual. A professional headshot peeking though a bookshelf says you're probably… — Ryan Lilly Copy Share Image
Will Rogers…used to come out with a newspaper and pretend he was a yokel criticizing the intellectuals who ran the government. I… — Mort Sahl Copy Share Image
Anthropology has always struggled with an intense, fascinated repulsion towards its subject… [The anthropologist] submits himself to the exotic to confirm his… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
At the beginning of the twentieth century, every single leading Muslim intellectual was in love with the west, and wanted their countries… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
I think that the superhero-as-metaphor involves a superhero being some sort of intellectual, emotional, or other such concept writ large. But I… — Kurt Busiek Copy Share Image
The reason that people in the intellectual community argue that football is dangerous is because there's now a large swath of society… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
I think the Occupy movement will, or at least should, become a protean movement of ideas, as well as action, where the… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
All good things require effort. That which is worth having will cost part of your physical being, your intellectual power, and your… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
To live and work successfully with others requires more than faithfulness to one's concrete aims. It requires an intellectual commitment to a… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
The longer I am in this work, the more I realize that intellectual struggles are merely the hazardous waste of life, blocking… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
Hope, to me, is wishing for something good to be true. I believe it is inherent in all of mankind to hope,… — Reese Roper Copy Share Image
There's the anti-intellectual movement in society and I don't blame them entirely for feeling that way because we all know people, I… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If that marvellous microcosm, man, with all the costly cargo of his faculties and powers, were indeed a rich argosy, fitted out… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Decisive inventions and discoveries always are initiated by an intellectual or moral stimulus as their actual motivating force, but, usually, the final… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
There are no moral or intellectual merits. Homer composed the Odyssey; if we postulate an infinite period of time, with infinite circumstances… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
God, or rather the fiction of God, is thus the sanction and the intellectual and moral cause of all the slavery on… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
As I review the nature of the creative drive in the inventive scientists that have been around me, as well as in… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate,… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
To the zealot overcome by his piety and to the journeyman of ideas concerned only with his marketable mental skills, the beginning… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love. If I do not… — Roland Allen Copy Share Image
To have Zen is to be in a state of pure sensation. It is to be freed from the grip of concepts,… — Alan Keightley Copy Share Image
The show is not a history lesson or intellectual exploration. It is entertainment based on tension, irony and storytelling that is closely… — Matthew Weiner Copy Share Image
You could have a lot of money at your fingertips, the finest education and intellectual knowledge, but if you are governed by… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
“The intellectual world of my time alienated me intellectually. It was a Babel of false principles and blind cravings, a zoological garden… — Charles Johnson Copy Share Image
“You're like candy. People lick your knowledge to become wise, lick your words from your powerful mouth and say it even better… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The major cause for American Negroes intellectual and social deficits is hereditary and racially genetic in origin and thus not remedial to… — William Shockley Copy Share Image
I believe in kindness and niceness and lots of spiritual things, but the real intellectual rigor and quest of logic is something… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Intellectual property is an important legal and cultural issue. Society as a whole has complex issues to face here: private ownership vs.… — Tim Berners-Lee Copy Share Image
There is evidence for the deity of Jesus -- good, strong, historical , cumulative evidence; evidence to which an honest person can… — John Stott Copy Share Image
“In Delhi, politicians and intellectuals privately bemoaned the “irrationality” of the uneducated Indian masses, but when the government itself provided false answers… — Katherine Boo Copy Share Image
“The 1st rule of logic club is that the 2nd rule is false. The 2nd rule of logic club is that the… — Makuochukwu Okigbo Copy Share Image
I do my intellectual work inside myself, and once I am with my fellow creatures it is more or less a matter… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The earth flourishes, or is overrun with noxious weeds and brambles, as we apply or withhold the cultivating hand. So fares it… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Those who had talked to us about national pride and Christian brotherly love were the first to come to terms or actively… — Mikis Theodorakis Copy Share Image
“[The public school system is] usually a twelve year sentence of mind control. Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism and compromise, destroying… — Walter Karp Copy Share Image
I would defend the liberty of consenting adult creationists to practice whatever intellectual perversions they like in the privacy of their own… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“Life is a game of common sense. You can know all the data that the encyclopedia holds, but if you can't apply… — Zack W. Van Copy Share Image
Software development takes immense intellectual effort. Even the best programmers can rarely sustain that level of effort for more than a few… — Joel Spolsky Copy Share Image
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