Reading is not simply an intellectual pursuit but an emotional and spiritual one. It lights the candle in the hurricane lamp of… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
The fashionable idiocy that haters must have justifications is one of those ideas that George Orwell said only an intellectual could believe… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Will Rogers…used to come out with a newspaper and pretend he was a yokel criticizing the intellectuals who ran the government. I… — Mort Sahl Copy Share Image
Sometimes the image of the intellectual boxer did for me more harm than good. If a boxer has a reputation as an… — Lennox Lewis Copy Share Image
It seems to us that in intelligence there is a fundamental faculty, the alteration or the lack of which, is of the… — Alfred Binet Copy Share Image
I see myself as, first and above all, a teacher of history; next, a writer of European history; next, a commentator on… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
Long intervals frequently elapse between the discovery of new principles in science and their practical application... Those intellectual qualifications, which give birth… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
We must understand that when a society undermines intellectual freedom for its own purposes it is absolutely morally bad, but when it… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
There's nothing so passionate as a vested interest disguised as an intellectual conviction. — Sean O'Casey Copy Share Image
To live and work successfully with others requires more than faithfulness to one's concrete aims. It requires an intellectual commitment to a… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
The stupidity of a stupid man is mercifully intimate and reticient, while the stupidity of an intellectual is cried from the rooftops. — Peter Ustinov Copy Share Image
The New England Journal of Medicine reports that 9 out of 10 doctors agree that 1 out of 10 doctors is an idiot. — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
For many decades now - and certainly during my adult life in academe - the Western intellectual world has not been convinced… — Arthur Peacocke Copy Share Image
'The Book of Air and Shadows' was born during a conference with an intellectual property lawyer on a particular afternoon in November… — Michael Gruber Copy Share Image
Random search for data on ... off-chance is hardly scientific. A questionnaire on 'Intellectual Immoralities' was circulated by a well-known institution. 'Intellectual… — Hans Selye Copy Share Image
Most experiences are either sensual or intellectual. Chamber music, played by a small group so the listener can follow what each player… — Karen DeCrow Copy Share Image
The defining moment in American economic history is when Bill Clinton lobbied to get China into the World Trade Organization. It was… — Peter Navarro Copy Share Image
Today I have lost one of my dearest friends, England one of her greatest men. Keith Joseph understood that it was necessary… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Antonio Gramsci said that social reformers should have pessimism of the intellect and optimism of the will. This means that one must… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
You don't have any other society where the educated classes are so effectively indoctrinated and controlled by a subtle propaganda system -… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Information is not synonymous with knowledge. Information is only data, parts of the whole. Knowledge has a moral imperative to enhance intellectual… — Ruth Nanda Anshen Copy Share Image
I'm usually taken for a non-intellectual, a person of limited intelligence. I don't know why, but I figure it's because physically I… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
The simple sense of wonder at the shapes of things, and at their exuberant independence of our intellectual standards and our trivial… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
When the Irishman is found outside of Ireland in another environment, he very often becomes a respected man. The economic and intellectual… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Indeed, our everyday world presents intellectual challenges just as daunting as those of the cosmos and the quantum, and that is where… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
