In living in the world by his own will and skill, the stupidest peasant or tribesman is more competent than the most… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Laws of motion of any kind only become comprehensible to man when he can examine arbitrarily selected units of that motion. But… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
A lot of Christian extremism has done a great deal to discredit religion; the main religious traditions have abandoned their own intellectual… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
If a large city can, after intense intellectual efforts, choose for its mayor a man who merely will not steal from it,… — Frank Moore Colby Copy Share Image
Intellectual property is the oil of the 21 century. Look at the richest men a hundred years ago; they all made their… — Mark Getty Copy Share Image
“Intellectuals as a class are notoriously prone to fine-sounding theoretical schemes that lead to catastrophe, such as Social Darwinism, Marxism or indeed… — Nicholas Wade Copy Share Image
I do not regard the Keynesian revolution as a great intellectual triumph. On the contrary, it was a tragedy because it came… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
Besides the general infusion of wit to heighten civility, the direct splendor of intellectual power is ever welcome in fine society, as… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is no one "root of all evil" in software development. Design is hard in many ways. People tend to underestimate the… — Bjarne Stroustrup Copy Share Image
Overprotecting intellectual property is as harmful as underprotecting it. Creativity is impossible without a rich public domain. Nothing today, likely nothing since… — Alex Kozinski Copy Share Image
I can assure you that there is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life. You learn that… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Books, books, books in all their aspects, in form and spirit, their physical selves and what reading releases from their hieroglyphic pages,… — Lawrence Clark Powell Copy Share Image
Three sorts of goods, Aristotle specified, contribute to happiness: goods of the soul, including moral and intellectual virtues and education; bodily goods,… — Sissela Bok Copy Share Image
There are innumerable instances suggesting that modern intellectuals do not believe themselves, that they don't really believe what they say, that they… — John Lukacs Copy Share Image
Knowledge and wonder are the dyad of our worthy lives as intellectual beings. Voyager did wonders for our knowledge, but performed just… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The price of these failures has been a loss of moral consensus, a greater sense of helplessness about the human condition. ...… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
I do not believe that God has created us under this dire necessity to toil, like beasts, to sustain life. I believe… — William Lloyd Garrison 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
LSD, yeah, the big parade – everybody's doin' it now. Take LSD, then you are a poet, an intellectual. What a sick… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
If you've read my New York Times bestseller 'Stonewalled', you know that I'm a fan of an intellectual exercise I call the… — Sharyl Attkisson Copy Share Image
I believe, indeed, that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and factual, in our education, has… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In late modernity we grow more and more accustomed to politicians and public figures who are indebted to their appetites for their… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
I think one of the unique aspects of Catholic school education is the opportunity to care for the material and intellectual needs… — Mark Foley Copy Share Image
When intellectual leaders fail to foster the best in the mixed, unformed, vacillating character of people at large, the thugs are sure… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Ingratitude is surely the chief of the intellectual sins of man. He takes his political benefits for granted, just as he takes… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Whether in the intellectual pursuits of science or in the mystical pursuits of the spirit, the light beckons ahead, and the purpose… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
I do not believe it is in the character of the British people to begrudge the lion's share to those who have… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
The best lesson which we get from the tragedy of Karbala is that Husain and his companions were rigid believers in God.… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Do not try to approach God with your thinking mind. It may only stimulate your intellectual ideas, activities, and beliefs. Try to… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
What I've always seen in writers and artists is the courage it takes to make an original work of art. I think… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If knowledge and wisdom keep the same pace in development, the adept is enabled to grasp all the laws of the microcosm… — Franz Bardon 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
The judgment that human life is worth living, or rather can and ought to be made worth living, ... underlies all intellectual… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Liberalism has never been about establishing a universal standard. Liberalism is simply intellectual cover for those wanting to gain political power and… — Andrew Breitbart Copy Share Image
(A unified) 'Europe' is the result of plans. It is, in fact, a classic utopian project, a monument to the vanity of… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
“Religion retards intellectual growth, represses individual thought, is the adversary of science, the restraint against invention and the stalwart of what would… — Al Stefanelli Copy Share Image
I just went along with political activists and interested in other intellectual interests which I pursued kind of at random. I never… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The distinction between pseudo-intellectual and intellectual consists in the lack of bases of pseudo-intellectuals theses, presence of dogma and authority, and pseudo-intellectuals… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
Emotions are the key to many aspects of life. They are precisely the elements that make human beings human. I think the… — Bill Viola Copy Share Image
