The ministers are in duty bound to denounce all intellectual pride, and show that we are never quite so dear to God… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Fancy, an animal faculty, is very different from imagination, which is intellectual. The former is passive; but the latter is active and… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
An intellectual may be interested in ideas and policies for their own sake, but a politician's interest is exclusively in the question… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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
Do you like my working persona?" Saiman asked softly. "An aesthetically pleasing combination of intelligence and elegance, wouldn't you say?" Aren't we… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
It is imperfection - not perfection - that is the end result of the program written into that formidably complex engine that… — Rita Levi-Montalcini Copy Share Image
No important change in ethics was ever accomplished without an internal chage in our intellectual emphasis, loyalties, affections, and convictions. — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
China is stealing our intellectual property, our patents, our designs, our technology, hacking into our computers, counterfeiting our goods. — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error. — Raymond Aron Copy Share Image
“The young are often savvy in the cultural world but not so much the intellectual; the old the intellectual but not so… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Sports and entertainment are the only places where inner-city kids see themselves being able to succeed. Their intellectual development is something they… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
There is a progression of understanding vis-à-vis pro football that varies drastically with the factor of distance --physical, emotional, intellectual and every… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
But the lack of faith could just as well be a crutch for non-believers, allowing them to live their lives without any… — Michael Coren Copy Share Image
Our purpose is to be able to measure the intellectual capacity of a child who is brought to us in order to… — Alfred Binet Copy Share Image
Science contributes to our culture in many ways, as a creative intellectual activity in its own right, as the light which has… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
People recognize intellectual property the same way they recognize real estate. People understand what property is. But it's a new kind of… — Michael Nesmith Copy Share Image
My whole career I've been interested by the distinction between an emotional and an intellectual response to an artwork. — Janet Echelman Copy Share Image
“You are welcome to your intellectual pastimes and books and art and newspapers; welcome, too, to your bars and your whisky that… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
Since only an individual man can possess rights, the expression "individual rights"? is a redundancy (which one has to use for purposes… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
But ultimately what I was impressed by during my years in government was how much the intellectual climate and the prevailing intellectual… — Lawrence Summers Copy Share Image
Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely… — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
Skepticism, as I said, is not intellectual only; it is moral also; a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul. A… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
To be infatuated with the power of one's own intellect is an accident which seldom happens but to those who are remarkable… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
