Always bear in mind that boys are naturally wiser than you. Regard them as intellectual beings, who have access to certain sources… — John Farrar Copy Share Image
Marxists are more right than wrong when they argue that the problems scientists take up,. the way they go about solving them,… — Theodosius Dobzhansky Copy Share Image
It is this capacity for relentless self-criticism that should be - everywhere - the true measure of intellectual freedom and cosmopolitanism, not… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
Every individual has to assume responsibility for his or her own actions, even the poor and the young. A social system that… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I guess I understand a public intellectual to be somebody who moves public discourse forward: someone who either says something new or… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words; whereas the things… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
As ages roll on there is doubtless a progression in human nature. The intellectual comes to rule the physical, and the moral… — James McCosh Copy Share Image
I'm grateful to intelligent people. That doesn't mean educated. That doesn't mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
How strange it would be if the final theory were to be discovered in our lifetimes! The discovery of the final laws… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
“We may say, in a broad way, that Greek philosophy down to Aristotle expresses the mentality appropriate to the City State; that… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
An ideologue may be defined as a mad intellectual. He is not interested in ideas, butalmost the exact contraryin one idea. When… — Clifton Fadiman Copy Share Image
It seems disingenuous for the intellectual elite of the first world to dwell on the subject of too many babies being born… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
Philosophers get attention only when they appear to be doing something sinister--corrupting the youth, undermining the foundations of civilization, sneering at all… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The conventional explanation for Jewish success, of course, is that Jews come from a literate, intellectual culture. They are famously "the people… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Tunisia's responsibility, and especially that of its political and intellectual elites, is enormous. All the protagonists of the nation's social, cultural, economic… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
With respect to the authority of great names, it should be remembered that he alone deserves to have any weight and influence… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“There is the family of our birth and then there is a more noble world to which we really belong; the richness… — Lewis Hyde Copy Share Image
In the general tendency toward specialization, philosophy too has established itself as a specialized discipline, one purified of all specific content. In… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Women often don't want to admit that they like fashion. And yet fashion enthralls everyone, from the taxi driver to the mega-intellectual.… — Miuccia Prada Copy Share Image
Escaping into the fantasy of intellectual investigation or narrative story telling makes me feel hopeful. That too is a fiction, but one… — Andrew Neel Copy Share Image
I feel more voluntary about my pleasures and pains than the average American who has his needs dictated by Madison Avenue (my… — Duane Elgin Copy Share Image
Research suggests that exposure to the natural world - including nearby nature in cities - helps improve human health, well-being, and intellectual… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
Music education opens doors that help children pass from school into the world around them - a world of work, culture, intellectual… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
Man was born to be rich, or grow rich by use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature. Property… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I would rather be the author of one original thought than conqueror of a hundred battles. Yet moral excellence is so much… — William Benton Clulow Copy Share Image
Terms that are related to individuals like Marxist, or Hegelian, or Bakuninist, or Kropotkinist, are completely outside my intellectual and emotional horizon.… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
Everybody's going to approach a character differently, depending upon what they bring to it on their own intellectual level or their feelings… — Peter Cullen Copy Share Image
The moral spectacle of capitalism still offends, as does American capitalism's implacable insistence that the market determine value even in the political,… — William Pfaff 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
That is [Edward Said] proposal as to how the term should be used. It surely does not describe those who are called… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Donald Trump is showing the intellectual rigor, and emotional maturity, of a second grader. That's hardly being age-ist. This is a man… — Gene Weingarten Copy Share Image
If pro-abortionists want to commit intellectual suicide and deny scientific facts, that's their problem. But there's no reason a civilized society should… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
We can code wills, escrows, trusts, notaries, revokable charge backs, proof of contracts, intellectual property enforcement. What Wall Street does can be… — Naval Ravikant 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
If, in any individual, university training produces a taste for refined idleness, a distaste for sustained effort, a barren intellectual arrogance, or… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Innovation is a twofold threat to academic mediocrities: it endangers their oracular authority, and it evokes the deeper fear that their whole,… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
One of the things that Ivar knew about Mrs. Walker was that she would only tell him what she knew if he… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
“Además no es tan malo vivir solo. Yo la paso bien, decidiendo a cada instante lo que quiero hacer, y gracias a… — Facundo Cabral Copy Share Image
Even the simple act that we call "going to visit a person of our acquaintance" is in part an intellectual act. We… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Agnosticism is not properly described as a "negative" creed, nor indeed as a creed of any kind, except in so far as… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
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