Distress at losing an object can be as much a frustration at the intellectual mystery of the disappearance as about the loss… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Republicans have always tolerated greater intellectual diversity than Democrats. — Michael J. Knowles Copy Share Image
“A writer should be able to open a window or two for others to see the world and themselves in a new… — Barista Uno Copy Share Image
Popular culture, on average, has been growing more cognitively challenging over the past thirty years, not less. Despite everything you hear about… — Steven Johnson Copy Share Image
I believe that sensory pleasure should take precedence over intellectual pleasure in art and architecture. — Bernard Rudofsky Copy Share Image
I love to read about music and about art, but I don't try and take things about mythology or guidelines as to… — Emily Haines Copy Share Image
Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live… — Oscar Wilde 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
“By some need to appear intellectual, non-thinkers will instantly and without question subscribe to the opinions of those they feel other people… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing. — Richard Rorty Copy Share Image
[Intellectual courage is] the quality that allows one to believe in one's judgement in the face of disappointment and widespread skepticism. Intellectual… — John Charles Polanyi Copy Share Image
Bloom never pissed me off because there are critics out there, and he's one of them, who take their ignorance about popular… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Scientists are convinced that they, as scientists, possess a number of very admirable human qualities, such as accuracy, observation, reasoning power, intellectual… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage - not intellectual courage,… — Walter Lord Copy Share Image
I think that those of us who are what are called intellectuals make a terrible mistake in overvaluing the yen we have… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
The stock market can be down, but the stock market is not an indication of where people's spirits and enthusiam are, and… — James Daly 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
I have in this War a burning private grudge—which would probably make me a better soldier at 49 than I was at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every intellectual has a very special responsibility. He has the privilege and the opportunity of studying. In return, he owes it to… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Mathematics is an interesting intellectual sport but it should not be allowed to stand in the way of obtaining sensible information about… — Richard Hamming Copy Share Image
While scholars are comparing and contrasting theories, debating intellectual questions, and dividing humankind into categories, the world is changed by persons with… — Grey Owl Copy Share Image
Novelists are perhaps the last people in the world to be entrusted with opinions. The nature of a novel is that it… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
What I've realized is that a film operates both on the intellectual and emotional levels, and if you can find a way… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
When the intellect and affections are in harmony; when intellectual consciousness is calm and deep; inspiration will not be confounded with fancy. — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
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