I feel with some passion that what we truly are is private, and almost infinitely complex, and ambiguous, and both external and… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Every man should be the intellectual proprietor of himself, honest with himself, and intellectually hospitable; and upon every brain, reason should be… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The best and the worst thing about fashion is that anyone can do it. But because fashion can be the most unintellectual… — Joseph Altuzarra Copy Share Image
Our churches are filled with Christians who are idling in intellectual neutral. As Christians, their minds are going to waste. One result… — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
Escaping into the fantasy of intellectual investigation or narrative story telling makes me feel hopeful. That too is a fiction, but one… — Andrew Neel Copy Share Image
Persons of slender intellectual stamina dread competition, as dwarfs are afraid of being run over in the street. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The history of literature is the history of the human mind. It is, as compared with other histories, the intellectual as distinguished… — William H. Prescott Copy Share Image
How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be American before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened,… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
I think, in the initial process of discovering a character and the analytical process - and this is what I did take… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
Painting fulfills a need to be non-intellectual. There are times when we have to get our brains out in our fingers. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
A typical mathematician does not actively try to be useful. Individual mathematicians are motivated primarily by a subtle mixture of ambition and… — Timothy Gowers Copy Share Image
Take a look at the current debates in Washington, and of course, everything in the media. Only one issue is discussed: the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I thought I was too intellectual to read something like 'Sweet Savage Love.' — Karen Robards Copy Share Image
One can remain alive ... if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity interested in big things and happy in… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
I have called this phenomenon of stealing common knowledge and indigenous science "biopiracy" and "intellectual piracy." According to patent systems we shouldn't… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Of course, we [ with Edward Herman] have a purpose: namely, to encourage readers to undertake what might be called "a course… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The need for truth is not constant; no more than is the need for repose. An idea which is a distortion may… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“Wisdom is not an exclusive possession of the intellectual parts of the society.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Let us hopethat by the best cultivation of the physical world, beneath and around us; and the intellectual and moral world within… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
We want to have trade agreements that give us a level playing field, get other countries to respect the rule of law,… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
Nothing threatens freedom of the personality and the meaning of life like war, poverty, terror. But there are also indirect and only… — Andrei Sakharov Copy Share Image
When you look at sports leagues today, they manage a lot of intellectual property, which means it takes you into a lot… — Brian France Copy Share Image
You don't get to be a respected intellectual by uttering truisms in monosyllables. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Europeans are much more serious than we are in America because they think that a good place to discuss intellectual matters is… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image