Let us by wise and constitutional measures promote intelligence among the people as the best means of preserving our liberties. — James Monroe Copy Share Image
My mom told me as a youngster I was always intellectual, like as far as being able to adapt fast and quick.… — Chris Brown Copy Share Image
Don't believe those lies about intellectual people. They're only written to soothe the majority. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
It is almost an intellectual tradition to pay heed to the insane. In my case those that I most respect are the… — Henri Michaux Copy Share Image
I'm too intellectual. I don't think that the theological vocabulary is as important as the experience. — Rodger Kamenetz Copy Share Image
To take intellectual risks is to think about something that can't be done, that doesn't make any sense, and go for it… — Oren Etzioni Copy Share Image
“Have you guys ever thought about the fact that socks are like the donut holes of underpants?” — Travis McElroy Copy Share Image
[ on the "tropicalization" of intellectual property laws ] To make the digital world join in the samba. — Gilberto Gil Copy Share Image
A smart, intellectual magazine is a difficult thing to run because of the need to manage conflicting personalities and opinionated writers who… — Ben Domenech Copy Share Image
The only chance for much intellectual improvement in the female sex, was to be found in the families of the educated class… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. If you take your children… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I would hardly say that I have a rich knowledge of anything in particular, but I do seem to be burdened with… — Thomas Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Junior was being chided for his low grades. Little Robert, who lived a few doors away, was held up as an example.… — Jacob Braude Copy Share Image
Language as a real thing is not imitation either of sounds or colors or emotions it is an intellectual recreation and there… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
I was unpopular at school just because I was an intellectual. I always answered all the questions off the top of my… — George Woodcock Copy Share Image
'Babylone, Babylone' is remarkable. Emmanuel is fascinated by Mexico. He knows the country without having been there... I am amazed by his… — Brigitte Macron Copy Share Image
If this really is true, then greed really isn't good, after all. It really isn't the way to maximize the best possible… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
A sentence is like a tune. A memorable sentence gives its emotion a melodic shape. You want to hear it again, say… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
If you go into a forest of film stories, you never can get right through the forest straight ahead; you always have… — Udo Kier Copy Share Image
The ideological are individuals ultimately swamped by the complexities of modern life and political and economic relations; they have deliberately attached themselves… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Our system doesn't work, and it doesn't work, ultimately, not because of Sarah Palin, or the christian right, or Glenn Beck. It… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
Man represses the irrational passions of destructiveness, hate, envy, revenge; he worships power, money, the sovereign state, the nation; while he pays… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
optimism, n. The doctrine, or belief, that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“For the first time after so many years I come back to cry aloud in the desert. Because this is the mission… — José Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
“One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.” — Alice James Copy Share Image
In my twenties, my pleasures tended to be physical. In my thirties, my pleasures tended to be intellectual. I can't say which… — Steve Kangas Copy Share Image
Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Intellectual honesty consists in stating the precise conditions under which one will give up one's belief. — Imre Lakatos Copy Share Image
The 'We Have Overcome' generation has run out of intellectual creativity but refuses to leave the political stage. — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience. — Alice James Copy Share Image
Intellectuals (in the standard sense of the term, not [ Edward] Said's prescriptive sense) are the people who write history. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
And amongst us one, Who most has suffer'd, takes dejectedly His seat upon the intellectual throne. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
In the end, leadership is not intellectual or cognitive. Leadership is emotional. — Judith M Bardwick Copy Share Image
If you have insight, you use your inner eye, your inner ear, to pierce to the heart of things, and have no… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For each of us there is a set limit to our intellectual powers which we cannot pass. — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies — Basil O'Connor Copy Share Image
From the business point of view—not to overstate it—intellectual property is dead; long live intellectual process. Long live service; long live performance. — Esther Dyson Copy Share Image
I'm fond of observing how obsession is the most durable form of intellectual capital. — Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Copy Share Image
One of the wonderful things about Internet is it's like a salon. It brings people together from different intellectual walks of life. — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image