Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Scepticism is never certain of itself, being less a firm intellectual position than a pose to justify bad behavior. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
... However, there is another method, other than revolution, which is that of natural evolution, or rather the intellectual method with all… — Ameen Rihani Copy Share Image
It's what I call "mental masturbation", when you engage is some pointless intellectual exercise that has no possible meaning. — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
The trouble with a lot of artists today is that they have too much technique and equipment. They don't know what to… — Alexander Calder 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 central fact for me is, I think, that the [role of the] intellectual... cannot be played without a sense of being… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
Sam Harris fearlessly describes a moral and intellectual emergency precipitated by religious fantasies--misguided beliefs that create suffering, that rationalize violence, that have… — Janna Levin Copy Share Image
Modern mathematics, that most astounding of intellectual creations, has projected the mind's eye through infinite time and the mind's hand into boundless… — Nicholas Murray Butler Copy Share Image
The object of basic education is the physical, intellectual and moral development of children through the medium of handicraft. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The IMF economists were doubtless shaken by the extreme failures of their prescriptions over many years, and by the collapse of the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Great writers, I discovered, were not to be bowed down before and worshipped, but embraced and befriended. Their names resounded through history… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
An empirical philosophy is in any case a kind of intellectual disrobing. We cannot permanently divest ourselves of the intellectual habits we… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Decisive inventions and discoveries always are initiated by an intellectual or moral stimulus as their actual motivating force, but, usually, the final… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Wow,” I said. “Are you making this up?” “Hazel Grace, could I, with my meager intellectual capacities, make up a letter from… — John Green Copy Share Image
I too had thoughts once of being an intellectual, but I found it too difficult. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. This is the sport, the luxury, special to the intellectual man. The… — José Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
It's not enough to be able to spell "magnificence" in your bedroom. You have to be able to spell it at the… — Cynthia Lewis Copy Share Image
A mind truly cultivated never feels that the intellectual process is complete until it can reproduce in some media the thing which… — Ida Tarbell Copy Share Image
All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts. — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
When asked if I consider myself Buddhist, the answer is, Not really. But it's more my religion than any other because I… — Uma Thurman Copy Share Image
There's a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics, especially within the sphere of… — Harold Pinter Copy Share Image
It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. Heaven… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
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