The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies — Basil O'Connor 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
“One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.” — Alice James 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
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
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
To know is not too demanding: it merely requires memory and time. But to understand is quite a different matter: it requires… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
The essential nature of a democracy compels it to insist that individual power of all kinds, political, economic, or intellectual, shall not… — Herbert Croly Copy Share Image
The telephone is the greatest single enemy of scholarship; for what our intellectual forebears used to inscribe in ink now goes once… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
A willingness to engage in the give and take of argument displays a commitment to cognitive egalitarianism - the proposition that all… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
I can work in London. A British journalist asked me if I had any trouble working with an English crew, as an… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
Decades of research has shown that play is crucial to physical, intellectual, and social-emotiona l development at all ages. This is especially… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
When I was 20, in 1957, and maybe you would say I was old enough to know better, but nevertheless, I was… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
The pleasure of nonfiction is that it takes all of that sort of artistic and observational skill, but then there's a more… — Ted Genoways Copy Share Image
I was raised a right-wing Republican and was about eighteen when I had to admit to myself that in regards to the… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
What I liked about Mulder was his quality of not caring what other people thought of him. He was very independent. He… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
The intellectual is not defined by professional group and type of occupation. Nor are good upbringing and a good family enough in… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
One of the unspoken themes that I'm grappling with in Day of Honey is the relationship between violence and cosmopolitanism. It's one… — Annia Ciezadlo Copy Share Image
I do think that copyrights and intellectual property are important - it's important to be able to keep people from making verbatim… — Shepard Fairey Copy Share Image
...the sounds next door served as a kind of trip wire: I seemed to stumble and fall on my face, skinning and… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
Healing requires far more of us than just the participation of our intellectual and even our emotional resources. And it certainly demands… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
I came to the conclusion that most people in America would really like to be able to get a job where they… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic uninterestingness as an intellectual position. — John Updike Copy Share Image
Mathematics ... is indispensable as an intellectual technique. In many subjects, to think at all is to think like a mathematician. — Robert M. Hutchins Copy Share Image
To be 'in the will of God' is not a matter of intellectual discernment, but a state of heart. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
The purpose of art is to collide the intellectual and visceral together at the highest speed possible. — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
NVC shows us a way of being very honest, but without any criticism, insults, or putdowns, and without any intellectual diagnosis implying… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Miami for many decades has been an intellectual talent exporter. I have many, many friends who grew up, didn't go to school… — Francis X. Suarez 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
The nature of power in the modern world is that it is also constructed in relation to political, moral, intellectual, cultural, ideological,… — Stuart Hall Copy Share Image
The thing is, my dad's always been more of a bookworm; he was interested in more intellectual pursuits, but nobody can escape… — Shakira Copy Share Image
Investing is about intellectual honesty. You want to know what you know. You want to know, mostly, what you don't know. — Li Lu Copy Share Image
Acting is not an intellectual process for me. It comes from my heart. It's this strange netherworld of osmosis where I simply… — Rhys Ifans Copy Share Image
It is, indeed, only in old age that intellectual men attain their sublime expression, whilst portraits of them in their youth show… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I am not an intellectual. An intellectual is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso, whereas I just say… — Sebastian Horsley Copy Share Image
A culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image