Thought breeds thought; children familiar with great thoughts take as naturally to thinking for themselves as the well-nourished body takes to growing;… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
I personally think intellectual property is an oxymoron. Physical objects have a completely different natural economy than intellectual goods. It's a tricky… — John Perry Barlow Copy Share Image
In disposition the Negro is joyous, flexible, and indolent; while the many nations which compose this race present a singular diversity of… — Samuel George Morton Copy Share Image
I believe that we learn by practice... it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. All intellectual and artistic ambitions are… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Teaching is not about information. It's about having an honest intellectual relationship with your students. It requires no method, no tools, and… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
People who dismiss science in favor of religion sometimes confuse the challenge of rigorously understanding the world with a deliberate intellectual exclusion… — Lisa Randall 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
Scientists are entitled to be proud of their accomplishments, and what accomplishments can they call 'theirs' except the things they have done… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
They [intellectuals] coined most of the slogans that guided the butcheries of Bolshevism, Fascism, and Nazism. Intellectuals extolling the delights of murder,… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
At George Mason University I saw Hoppe present a lecture in which he claimed that Ludwig von Mises had set the intellectual… — Tom G. Palmer Copy Share Image
Philosophy is to be studied, not for the sake of any definite answers to its questions, since no definite answers can, as… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I have to deplore the systematic manner in which the literature of Europe has continued to put out of sight our obligations… — John William Draper Copy Share Image
All fiction, if it's successful, is going to appeal to the emotions. Emotion is really what fiction is all about. That's not… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Intellectual freedom begins when one says with Socrates that he knows that he knows nothing, and then goes on to add: Do… — Scott M. Buchanan Copy Share Image
“To those who suspect that intellect is a subversive force in society, it will not do to reply that intellect is really… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
.Women's Studies can amount simply to compensatory history; too often they fail to challenge the intellectual and political structures that must be… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
You get stared at the whole time. I first noticed that when I was about 13. I was very shy. Being considered… — Carole Bouquet Copy Share Image
Nature has color-coded groups of individuals so that statistically reliable predictions of their adaptability to intellectually rewarding and effective lives can easily… — William Shockley Copy Share Image
“From the intellectual point of view an abyss may exist between a great mathematician and his boot maker, but from the point… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
We believe in cures; we're a quick-fix country, and we drive forward, and we eat up what we have extremely fast in… — David Means Copy Share Image
Power operates only destructively, bent always on forcing every manifestation of life into the straitjacket of its laws. Its intellectual form of… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
For original ideas to come about, you have to let them percolate under the level of consciousness in a place where we… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
There were different heroes with different images. There was Mike Tyson, the animal, there was Evander Holyfield, the devout, the priest. And… — Lennox Lewis Copy Share Image
Notwithstanding the fact that the most innovative and progressive space we've seen - the Internet - has been the place where intellectual… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
As a writer, I must be free to say what is in all the diversity I can command. I regret the distorting… — Jane Rule Copy Share Image
The best conversation is rare. Society seems to have agreed to treat fictions as realities, and realities as fictions; and the simple… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Scientific reason, with its strict conscience, its lack of prejudice, and its determination to question every result again the moment it might… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
We hear eagerly every thought and word quoted from an intellectual man. But in his presence our own mind is roused to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. Destroying intellectual freedom is always evil, but only religion makes doing evil… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
To quarrel with the uncertainty that besets us in intellectual affairs would be about as reasonable as to object to live one's… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
I discovered that my drag really does speak to people on an emotional level. I also discovered that people are sometimes put… — Sasha Velour Copy Share Image
I am a political animal, because for God's sakes I think "We The People" is a job. I think experienced self government… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
Bear in mind that brains and learning, like muscle and physical skill, are articles of commerce. They are bought and sold. You… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
It is interesting thus to follow the intellectual truths of analysis in the phenomena of nature. This correspondence, of which the system… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
Men have such a good opinion of themselves, of their mental superiority and intellectual depth; they believe themselves so skilled in discerning… — Al-Ghazali Copy Share Image
In the epic war over Silicon Valley's intellectual property, Bill Gates was on the side of licensing copyright and robust protections for… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
I'm a schoolteacher. That's even worse than being an intellectual. Schoolteachers are not only comic, they're often cold and hungry in this… — Joseph L. Mankiewicz Copy Share Image
I think there is a potential civic culture in Arab countries that can lead to democratic institutions and I think Iraq is… — Richard Perle Copy Share Image
We not only grew up on Be-Bop; Be-Bop raised us. For my generation, Be-Bop came on like a light bulb going flash… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image