The truth, I am convinced, is that there is no longer a poetical audience among the higher class of minds, that moral,… — Thomas Love Peacock Copy Share Image
Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action. Their acquisition… — Midge Decter Copy Share Image
What is needed is a spirit of boundary dissolution, between individuals, between classes, sexual orientations, rich and poor, man and woman, intellectual… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
NAFTA and GATT are quite similar. They both have highly protectionist elements. They're kind of a mixture of liberalization and protection designed… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I despair of persuading people to drop the familiar and comforting tactic of dichotomy. Perhaps, instead, we might expand the framework of… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Everyone carries a part of society on his shoulders; no one is relieved of his share of responsibility by others. And no… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“An intellectual is usually someone who isn't exactly distinguished by his intellect," Corelli asserted. "he claims that label to compensate for his… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
Engineers are not the only professional designers. Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.… — Herbert Simon Copy Share Image
Develop all four intelligences. PQ (physical intelligence) which represents 70 trillion cells that fight disease and digest your breakfast. IQ (intellectual intelligence)… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
The mass media causes sexual misdirection: It prompts us to need something deeper than what we want. This is why Woody Allen… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
I was very resistant to my intellectualism for a while. I do start with an intellectual idea for a character. A lot… — David Harbour Copy Share Image
The idea that the creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time. ...… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
What the intellectual craves above all else is to be taken seriously, to be treated as a decisive force in shaping history.… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
I am just as deaf as I am blind. The problems of deafness are deeper and more complex, if not more important… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
At this point, we are living one of the greatest experiments in humankind - to create something that has, throughout history, been… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
Even in a personal sense, after all, art is an intensified life. By art one is more deeply satisfied and more rapidly… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
Friedrich Hayek, who died on March 23, 1992 at age 92, was arguably the greatest social scientist of the twentieth century. By… — Julian Simon Copy Share Image
In the so-called civilized world, children are physically, sexually and/or emotionally abused; they are the leaders of our future. When children are… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
Sometimes among our more sophisticated, self-styled intellectuals--and I say self-styled advisedly; the real intellectual I am notsure would ever feel this way--some… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
I have seen myself lose intolerance, narrowness, bigotry, complacence, pride and a whole bushel-basket of other intellectual vices through my contact with… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
Arrogance is a killer, and wearing ambition on one's sleeve can have the same effect. There is a fine line between arrogance… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
I have problems with a religion which says that faith in itself is enough for a ticket to heaven. In other words,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Men are confused. They're conflicted. They want a woman who's their intellectual equal, but they're afraid of women like that. They want… — Diane Frolov Copy Share Image
We should seek to free the moral life from the embarrassments and entanglements in which it has been involved by the quibbles… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
“Anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the businessman," by which he meant that those at the top of the heap use… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think serious research tends to be associated with higher academic quality, more prestige, more resources, and even, heaven help us, better… — Nicholas Lemann Copy Share Image
For everyone who, having no artistic sense-that is to say, no submission to subjective reality-may have the knack of reasoning about art… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I believe, indeed, that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and factual, in our education, has… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Can anything be more disgusting than to hear people called 'educated' making small jokes about eating ham, and showing themselves empty of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Writing a book about Jeremy Corbyn, set out with two objectives. The first was simple: to explain how he became the leader… — Alex Nunns Copy Share Image
Recently while browsing in a secondhand bookstore I bought a paperback copy of The Intellectual and the City, but I was unable… — Florence King Copy Share Image
You can't relate to an absolute or it wouldn't be absolute, it would be relative. On an intellectual level, that's easy. However,… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
I'm obsessed - not just interested, obsessed - with folk music, street music, the parallels between a country's street music and its… — Jimmy Page Copy Share Image
'I believe in one God and Mohammed the Apostle of God,' is the simple and invariable profession of Islam. The intellectual image… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
American gentlemen are a cross between English and French men, and yet really altogether like neither. They are more refined and modest… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
In an age of information overload ... the last thing any of us needs is more information about God. We need the… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
So, ultimately, in order to understand nature it may be necessary to have a deeper understanding of mathematical relationships. But the real… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Odd words floated back to them over the hundreds of heads. "Nobility of spirit"..."intellectual contribution"..."greatness of heart"...It did not mean very much.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've come to realize that most of my intellectual postures and a lot of my intellectualism is super defensive and really symptomatic… — How to Dress Well Copy Share Image
Women while in college ought to have the broadest possible education. This college education should be the same as men's, not only… — M. Carey Thomas Copy Share Image
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