These events are swirling around them. In the white community, people felt like they had no control over their neighborhoods, their destiny.… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other. — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
As for the excellent little wretches who grow up in what they are taught, with never a scruple or a query, ...… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Of course, I don't know everything. Considering the infinite amount of knowledge that one could acquire in a virtually innumerable array of… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The one nice thing about doing a character for a long time is, you begin to feel more comfortable, and you are… — Gary Cole Copy Share Image
To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. This is the sport, the luxury, special to the intellectual man. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
I was always a feminist, for I liked intellectual revolt as much as I disliked physical violence. On the whole, I think… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Surrealism was necessary - essential, even - in the 1920s to bridge the gap between rationalism and the subconscious. It started something… — Alejandro Jodorowsky 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
I'm fond of observing how obsession is the most durable form of intellectual capital. — Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Copy Share Image
Consistency in opinion is the slow poison of intellectual life, the destroyer of its vividness and energy. — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
I'm really trying to dredge up what one might call intellectual and moral material. For example, when do you realize that you… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Clearly, only very unequal intellectual and moral standing could justify having equality imposed, whether the people want it or not, as Dworkin… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The work of an intellectual is not to mould the political willof others; it is, through the analyses that he does in… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Visa for Avalon is a testament to the power of fiction. It illuminates the truth at the heart of what is commonly… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
There is one great advantage to being an academic economist in France: here, economists are not highly respected in the academic and… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
Memory is the primary and fundamental power, without which there could be no other intellectual operation. — Samuel Johnson 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
The main threat to the future of Europe is not those who want to come here to live but our own political,… — Viktor Orban Copy Share Image
The chief distinction in the intellectual powers of the two sexes is shown by mans attaining to a higher eminence, in whatever… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The French make two mistakes about me. They think I'm an intellectual because I wear these glasses and they think I'm an… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Most men use their knowledge only under guidance from others because they lack the courage to think independently using their own reasoning… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
In the so-called civilized world, children are physically, sexually and/or emotionally abused; they are the leaders of our future. When children are… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
The whole machinery of our intelligence, our general ideas and laws, fixed and external objects, principles, persons, and gods, are so many… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
