When children attend schools that place a greater value on discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
People call me a Modi bhakt now. I used to be a Marx bhakt. I was part of what I now call… — Vivek Agnihotri Copy Share Image
I believe in intelligence, and I believe also that there are inherited differences in intellectual ability, but I do not believe that… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
The proper motto is not Be good, sweet maid, and let who can be clever, but Be good sweet maid, and don't… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If you came from Mars and tried to analyse British or American society through novels, you'd think our society was preponderantly full… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
In the history of the world the Vedas fill a gap which no literary work in any other language could fill. I… — Max Muller Copy Share Image
The one man other than my father who made the most lasting impression was an uncle, Serge B. Benson. He taught me… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
You need a prince to make a town in an intellectual sense. Developers want to make money. If they cared about architecture,… — Leon Krier Copy Share Image
Human physical structures and intellectual structures are generally studied in different ways. The assumption is that physical structures are genetically inherited and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
But if we laugh with derision, we will never understand. Human intellectual capacity has not altered for thousands of years so far… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Divine Providence is connected with Divine intellectual influence, and the same beings which are benefited by the latter so as to become… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
In order to achieve something, in competition with the powerful and smartly wielded influence of corporations, we need to join forces and… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
Those, however, who saw that one cannot attain wisdom and perennial intellectual life, unless it be given through the gift of grace,… — Nicholas of Cusa Copy Share Image
Tad Homer-Dixon is a rare kind of public intellectual, who combines real expertise with a commitment to communicate to the widest possible… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
What is "this drive"? It's the tendency to not simply accept things as they are but to want to think about them,… — Aaron Swartz Copy Share Image
Speaking of a future at most only decades away, an experimenter in intelligence control asserted, “I foresee a time when we shall… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
I don't have a type. But one thing I can say from my dating experience is that a physical attraction will only… — Jesse Metcalfe Copy Share Image
You don't have to be really good anymore to get good results. What's happening with Chess is that it's gradually losing its… — Hans Berliner Copy Share Image
living for oneself is a bad thing. The keenest intellectual pleasure comes from being able to return to the self after being… — George Sand Copy Share Image
We are permitted to suppose that the relatively small size of the female brain depends in part upon her physical inferiority and… — Paul Broca Copy Share Image
I watch people get older and lose their intellectual acuity; you lose that sharpness, that cleanness, that brain that you worked so… — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
I liked Donald's Trump speech on foreign policy. What he's showing is that his fundamental views are solid, and that there's an… — Jeff Sessions Copy Share Image
I started when I was really young. I was playing classical music when I was 4 and when I turned 11 I… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
More and more in the art world are becoming moralistic, telling artists and critics what they should and shouldn't write, do, or… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
I want to engage the reader. I'm an emotional writer, in the sense that I would be happy if you re-read a… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Sociopathy is the inability to process emotional experience, including love and caring, except when such experience can be calculated as a coldly… — Martha Stout Copy Share Image
Western intellectual Islamologists have totally failed in their duties as intellectuals. They have betrayed their calling by abandoning their critical faculties when… — Wafa Sultan Copy Share Image
Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business - everything. I think you could have an intellectual ability, but if… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
Intellectual adherence is never owed to anything whatsoever, for it is never in any degree a voluntary thing. Attention alone is voluntary.… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
What is the role of a public intellectual in the age of Twitter and soundbites? Is it to share your thoughts for… — Anthea Butler Copy Share Image
Beauty is a living abiding presence completely untouchable by all the devices of man, such as moral codes, creeds, intellectual analysis, games… — Lawren Harris Copy Share Image
As a writer, I am an intellectual. I believe in the ideals of the Enlightenment, I believe in the written word, in… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
A society that does not use the intellectual power of its female population fully is not a wise society. Most women are… — Johanna Siguroardottir Copy Share Image
In most circles, the idea of economic planning has been in disrepute most of the time and, particularly in America, has almost… — Gunnar Myrdal Copy Share Image
Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope to read in one fleeting… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
... there is an irrational, cultish tendency in many intellectual movements, and Objectivism, alas, is no exception. Ayn Rand's personal obsession with… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
It's got to be the best intellectual exercise out there. You're seeing through new situations every ten minutes. In the stock market… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The education of my brother and myself was of paramount importance to my parents, and in addition to their strong encouragement, they… — Jerome Isaac Friedman Copy Share Image
There's always an intellectual side to the films Ang Lee's doing and to the characters, and there's such a deep knowledge when… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
“Any informed conservative is reluctant to condense profound and intricate intellectual systems to a few pretentious phrases; he prefers to leave that… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
