If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
What we want in students is creativity and a willingness to fail. I always say to students, 'If you've never at some… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
Earlier in my life, I performed a lot of music. Some of it because I felt it was a demonstration, or a… — Michael Tilson Thomas Copy Share Image
My emotional and intellectual response to Hiroshima was that the question of the social responsibility of a journalist was posed with greater… — Wilfred Burchett Copy Share Image
Spiritual nature is inconceivable and unlimited. Therefore, the activities of that realm will always remain beyond our mental speculation and intellectual concept. — Bhakti Charu Swami Copy Share Image
domestic work is the most elementary form of labor. It is suitable for those with the intelligence of rabbits. All it requires… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
What I do is I write mainly about very personal and rather lonely feelings, and I explore them in a different way… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
Both Brutus and Hamlet are highly intellectual by nature and reflective by habit. Both may even be called, in a popular sense,… — Andrew Coyle Bradley Copy Share Image
Man represses the irrational passions of destructiveness, hate, envy, revenge; he worships power, money, the sovereign state, the nation; while he pays… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
optimism, n. The doctrine, or belief, that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“For the first time after so many years I come back to cry aloud in the desert. Because this is the mission… — José Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Capitalist agricultural production prevents the return to the soil of its elements consumed by man in the form of food and clothing;… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
I've always thought Anne-Marie Slaughter would make a fantastic United States Senator or something. She's a real intellectual, but she's got enormous… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
If you're talking about intellectual and social equality for women, we're not much better off.America is still very much a male-dominated society.… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
I wasn't always smart, I was actually very stupid in school [T]here was a boy who was very attractive who was even… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Khalif (Caliph) Al-Ma'mun's period of rule (813 - 833 C.E.) may be considered the 'golden age' of science and learning. He had… — John Bagot Glubb Copy Share Image
The time-state of attainment eliminates so accurately the time-state of aspiration, that the actual seems the inevitable, and, all conscious intellectual effort… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
I won a Marshall scholarship to read philosophy at Oxford, and what I most wanted to do was strengthen public intellectual culture… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
We see our mobile initiatives as a way to bring our intellectual properties and our gameplay experiences to a larger population than… — Reggie Fils-Aime Copy Share Image
Now I know I am an intellectual. I saw Malcolm Muggeridge on the television last night, and I understood nearly every word.… — Sue Townsend Copy Share Image
The professional military mind is by necessity an inferior and unimaginative mind; no man of high intellectual quality would willingly imprison his… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
The most dangerous aspect of present-day life is the dissolution of the feeling of individual responsibility. Mass solitude has done away with… — Eugenio Montale Copy Share Image
Protestantism includes every type of religious thought and organization from 'high church' Anglicanism to high-principled Quakerism, from ecstatic Methodism to relentlessly intellectual… — Lewis Browne Copy Share Image
There are branches of learning and education which we must study merely with a view to leisure spent in intellectual activity, and… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The development of artificial intelligence may well imply that man will relinquish his intellectual supremacy in favor of thinking machines. With oceans… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
I've noticed over the past years of my writerly life that women writers in particular are discouraged in cleverly disguised forms from… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
As a militant feminist, I believe in complete equality with men: intellectual, professional, economic, social and sexual; they're all equally essential, and… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
It is a difficult matter for man to realize the extreme importance of social discriminations which seem outwardly insignificant but which produce… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I don't really see what can be said about the role of faculty members, or universities, beyond the truisms voiced earlier, and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Widespread intellectual and moral docility may be convenient for leaders in the short term, but it is suicidal for nations in the… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I think there's a quality of passion to the American actor. I'm certainly attracted to it, and I like to hope that… — Arthur Penn Copy Share Image
Les trois quarts de nos exercices intellectuels ne sont plus que broderies sur le vide. Three quarters of our intellectual performances are… — Stephanie Crayencour Copy Share Image
The Chinese have made a faustian pact with the government, agreeing to forsake demands for political and intellectual freedom in exchange for… — Ma Jian Copy Share Image
Can a woman become a genius of the first class? Nobody can know unless women in general shall have equal opportunity with… — Anna Garlin Spencer Copy Share Image
The teacher who allows his scholars the freedom of the city of books is at liberty to be their guide, philosopher and… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
Avarice is a uniform and tractable vice; other intellectual distempers are different in different constitutions of mind. That which soothes the pride… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief… — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
To the indefinite, uncertain mind of the American radical the most contradictory ideas and methods are possible. The result is a sad… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Many studies have established the fact that there is a high correlation between vocabulary and intelligence and that the ability to increase… — Bergen Evans Copy Share Image
The philosophical implication of race-thinking is that by offering us the mystery of heredity as an explanation, it diverts our attention from… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
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