Being able to provoke a different point of view to the standard current ideological or political perspective as played out in conventional… — Susie Orbach Copy Share Image
Mindgasm (noun) - An exhilarating neurostorm of intense intellectual pleasure. Fully revelatory understanding of a certain topic. Involuntary contractions of brain muscles… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer. Indeed the measure of our intellectual… — Gordon Allport Copy Share Image
The left-wing thinkers and intellectuals have been more misogynist with me than the army. They can't accept that a young woman is… — Maria de Medeiros Copy Share Image
When I was 16, I had a massive crush on our tennis coach and every time he came round to teach my… — Emma Corrin Copy Share Image
Prophecy is rash, but it may be that the publication of D.T. Suzuki's first Essays in Zen Buddhism in 1927 will seem… — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
A highly developed moral nature joined to an undeveloped intellectual nature, an undeveloped artistic nature, and a very limited religious nature, is… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
During periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
I always like to believe that my work is about the expansion of the possibilities of the viewer. So if you have… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
Yet it would be unfair to the generality of our kind to ascribe to their intellectual and moral weakness the gradual divergence… — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
The older I get, the more I realize the importance of exercising the various dimensions of my body, soul, mind, and heart.… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
Beneath all the rhetoric about relevance lies a profoundly disturbing possibility - that people may base their lives upon an illusion, upon… — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
I am simply in favor of intellectual hospitality-that is all. You come to me with a new idea. I invite you into… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“You wouldn't understand my works. You wouldn't have the faintest idea of what they were about. You wouldn't appreciate the points of… — Harold Pinter Copy Share Image
You're trying to make the language work, and your subconscious is being allowed to make the deeper, more profound connections. It's much… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., in a mordant protest written soon after the [1952] election, found the intellectual "in a situation he has not… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
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English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in… — Mary Augusta Ward Copy Share Image
Over the years, EpiPen's manufacturer, Mylan, made meaningful modifications to its auto-injector pen. The company maintains some important intellectual property around these… — Scott Gottlieb Copy Share Image
I loathe when architects only analyze architecture in intellectual, nonvisual ways. I really love direct response, and that's very pop. I don't… — Peter Marino Copy Share Image
For him to have understood me would have meant reorganizing his thinking... giving up his intellectual ballast, and few people are willing… — Edward T. Hall Copy Share Image
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Nothing is so envied as genius, nothing so hopeless of attainment by labor alone. Though labor always accompanies the greatest genius, without… — B. R. Hayden Copy Share Image
You want to think about certain styles of music as being reflective of a certain culture or a certain time or a… — Robin Pecknold Copy Share Image
Why should an intellectual have to renounce the pleasures of life? I am not a hermit. I am a man of flesh… — Bernard-Henri Levy Copy Share Image
The way in which a certain kind of political idealism has been discredited and scorned makes the danger not that intellectuals keep… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Psychoanalytic theory is the most stupendous intellectual confidence trick of the twentieth century and a terminal product as well-something akin to a… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
“Anti-intellectual resentment is common in all of American life and it has many diverse expressions. Refusing to draft college players might have… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
Emerson was not passionate about abolition. He wasn't a passionate person. He was a cool intellectual, and I think he probably was… — Nell Irvin Painter Copy Share Image
However, I think anything is better than high intellectual pressure. That is the most unbecoming thing there is. It makes the noses… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The history of literature is the history of the human mind. It is, as compared with other histories, the intellectual as distinguished… — William H. Prescott Copy Share Image
Advocates of knowledge management as the next big thing have advanced the proposition that what companies need is more intellectual capital. While… — Jeffrey Pfeffer Copy Share Image
Love is created and preserved by intellectual analysis, for we love only that which is unique, and it belongs to contemplation, not… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
I'm a storyteller. I feel like the issue of discourse is an important one because there's a lot of political and ideological… — Ayad Akhtar Copy Share Image
Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of… — Benno C. Schmidt, Jr Copy Share Image
The history of intellectual growth and discovery clearly demonstrates the need for unfettered freedom, the right to think the unthinkable, discuss the… — C. Vann Woodward Copy Share Image
The concrete is better than the abstract. The detail is better than the commonplace. The sensual [through the senses] is better than… — Ellen Hunnicutt Copy Share Image
When I won the world championship, in 1972, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, a baseball… — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
One can never read too little of bad, or too much of good books: bad books are intellectual poison; they destroy the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
In our greatest universities, naturalism - the doctrine that nature is all there is - is the virtually unquestioned assumption that underlies… — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
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