Intellectual Quotes · Page 123

As a financial historian, I was quite isolated in Oxford - British historians are supposed to write about kings - so the…

— Niall Ferguson

Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it…

— Dan Barker

I think, anytime there is a strong intellectual connection and people have shared interest, where they enjoy bantering with each other, there…

— Stephanie Savage

[I have ] two boys. One, Nicholas, is a criminal defense attorney in Phoenix in which he - gets into - a…

— Nat Hentoff

Nothing is so envied as genius, nothing so hopeless of attainment by labor alone. Though labor always accompanies the greatest genius, without…

— B. R. Hayden

I think there's a faith formula in that verse: believe plus receive equals become. So I think believing's important, having intellectual agreement…

— Lee Strobel

Complex astronomical instruments like the Antikythera Mechanism and the Nebra Sky Disk were made by Pagans. Our Pagan intellectual heritage includes poets…

— Brendan Myers

The intellectual development of man, far from having get men away from war, has, rather, on the contrary, bring them to a…

— African Spir

Bad television is three things: a bullet train to a morally bankrupt youth, a slow spiral into an intellectual void, and of…

— Dennis Miller

I'm one of the most superstitious people I know. There are these two battling parts of me, one is very rational and…

— Anna Boden

He is a fool who thinks by force or skill To turn the current of a woman's will.

— Samuel Tuke

I started by saying that one of the most fateful errors of our age is the belief that the problem of production…

— E. F. Schumacher

I'm not intellectual at all as a designer. Whatever I'm into at the moment is usually what becomes the collection.

— Peter Dundas

America is also the nameless foreigner, the homeless refugee, the hungry boy begging for a job and the black body dangling on…

— Carlos Bulosan

The intellectual was rejected and persecuted at the precise moment when the facts became incontrovertible, when it was forbidden to say that…

— Michel Foucault

Nothing fans me into such a state of peaceful mental somnambulance as the intellectual antics of a person who displays his learning,…

— Corra May Harris

I am simply in favor of intellectual hospitality-that is all. You come to me with a new idea. I invite you into…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

When the panting and thirsting soul first drinks the delicious waters of truth, when the moral and intellectual tastes and desires first…

— Horace Mann

Power operates only destructively, bent always on forcing every manifestation of life into the straitjacket of its laws. Its intellectual form of…

— Rudolf Rocker

The best painting comes out of compulsions and obsessions, out of deep love or hate, out of intellectual or emotional involvement with…

— Edward Betts

Conversion is in its essence a normal adolescent phenomenon, incidental to the passage from the child's small universe to the wider intellectual…

— William James

You can reasonably make the intellectual journey from thinking it's permissible to eat shrimp to thinking it's not permissible, or vice versa,…

— Catherine Wilson

Plato's concern is not just an intellectual issue, but it is knitted with emotional life as well.

— Rebecca Goldstein

Mr. [Aldous] Huxley has been the alarming young man for a long time, a sort of perpetual clever nephew who can be…

— Elizabeth Bowen

Stealing things is everybody's problem. We [Apple Inc.] own a lot of intellectual property, and we don't like when people steal it.…

— Steve Jobs