I don't want students who could make the next major breakthrough in renewable energy sources or space travel to have been taught… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I can't imagine a secular life, a spiritual life, an intellectual life, a physical life. I mean, we would be completely wrought… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
The social model of the Bolsheviks failed, as will any model that denies individual rights, intellectual freedom, and freedom of competing political… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
It's not that I am demanding empathy for trans people. It's actually more than I'm demanding that readers have empathy for themselves,… — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence. — Philip James Bailey Copy Share Image
I have to really think hard about how to structure sentences, and do more mapping when I sit down to write, so… — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
It doesn't dawn on this depraved bourgeois world that this is positively a sin against all reason; that it is criminal lunacy… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
All I'm arguing for really is that we should have a conversation where the best ideas really thrive, where there's no taboo… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Compassion is not feeling sorry for others. It's not soft. It requires an intellectual effort. — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Doing the right thing is not the problem. Knowing what the right thing is, that's the challenge. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Thus the State never intentionally confronts a man's sense, intellectual or moral, but only his body, his senses. It is not armed… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It befuddles me why I was offered so many intense, intellectual movies when I don't take myself seriously. — Konkona Sen Sharma 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
There is, therefore, a more perfect intellectual life in the angels. In them the intellect does not proceed to self-knowledge from anything… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Classical music is at odds with contemporary culture precisely because of its insistence on the tension between the bodily and intellectual, the… — Julian Johnson Copy Share Image
Anyone who says that life matters less to an animal than it does to us has not held in his hands an… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
People never will recollect that mere learning and mere cleverness are of next to no value in life, while energy and intellectual… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Intellectual beauty is sufficient unto itself, and only for it rather than for the future good of humanity does the scholar condemn… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal Copy Share Image
Trying to be a sort of intellectual in the public arena is very irritating to people. They think, 'Why is this bugger… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
George Washington and Abraham Lincoln were gay, just for starters. They didn't have a name for it, but their primary affections and… — Larry Kramer Copy Share Image
Sometimes the former forces are in the ascendance, and "democratic governance" is eroded, though anyone familiar with intellectual history would expect that… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Certainly parents play a crucial role in the lives of individuals who are intellectually gifted or creatively talented. But this role is… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
By exploring the political and moral colorings of discoveries about what makes us tick, we can have a more honest science and… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
There is a progression of understanding vis-a-vis pro football that varies drastically with the factor of distance -- physical, emotional, intellectual and… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
