The study of mathematics is the indispensable basis for all intellectual and spiritual progress. — Francis Cornford Copy Share Image
Frederick Turner comes across in his poems as a man of impressively broad experience, intellectual brilliance, and originality. … He’s at his… — Richard Tillinghast Copy Share Image
People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history. — Caroline Kennedy Copy Share Image
Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence. It is the dishonest businessman's substitute for conscience. It is the communicator's substitute, whether… — Russell Lynes Copy Share Image
One of the movements we have developed is to say that, just as intellectual property rights protect the inventions of individuals, common… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Whatever the intellectual quality of the education given our children, it is vital that it include elements of love and compassion, for… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
As a writer, I am an intellectual. I believe in the ideals of the Enlightenment, I believe in the written word, in… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
John Connally's conversion to the GOP raised the intellectual level of both parties. — Frank Mankiewicz Copy Share Image
An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex. — Aldous Huxley 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
Inner experience ... is not easily accessible and, viewed from the outside by intelligence, it would even be necessary to see in… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
Thus, in its relation to Christianity, intelligent design should be viewed as a ground-clearing operation that gets rid of the intellectual rubbish… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
A novel is a commodity that fulfills a certain need; people need to buy daydreams like they need to buy ice cream… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
American life is a powerful solvent. It seems to neutralize every intellectual element, however tough and alien it may be, and to… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
If we look more closely, we see that any violent display of power, whether political or religious, produces an outburst of folly… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Without the institution of slavery, civilization would never have been achieved, for no one could ever have done anything intellectual if he… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
The contraction of theological influence has been at once the best measure, and the essential condition of intellectual advance. — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
Neither god, nor angels, or just men, command you to suffer for a single moment. Therefore it is your solemn and imperative… — Henry Highland Garnet Copy Share Image
Intellectual work is essentially a lonely process, and if you can find a way of doing something so that you're in company… — Whitfield Diffie Copy Share Image
... the word "theory" ... was originally an Orphic word, which Cornford interprets as "passionate sympathetic contemplation" ... For Pythagoras, the "passionate… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Toward the end of his life, Gödel feared that he was being poisoned, and he starved himself to death. His theorem is… — Brian L. Silver Copy Share Image
It is much easier to make intellectual messes than it is to clarify complicated issues, especially when real solutions would challenge the… — David W. Orr Copy Share Image
Donald Trump is showing the intellectual rigor, and emotional maturity, of a second grader. That's hardly being age-ist. This is a man… — Gene Weingarten Copy Share Image
I would not ever try to be a show intellectual, which I was accused of doing a while on ABC. I thought… — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
