In this country, intellectual cowardice is the worst enemy a writer or journalist has to face ... Unpopular ideas can be silenced,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I think it's time we ask ourselves if we still know the freedoms that were intended for us by the Founding Fathers...… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
A tendency to resume the same mode of action at stated times is peculiarly the characteristic of the nervous system; and on… — George Combe Copy Share Image
“One with higher 'revolutions' of intellect has a higher power of understanding. He will understand before explanation becomes necessary. Laborers do not… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Men's bodies are our women's works of art. Given to us power of control, we will never carelessly throw them in to… — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
True myths may serve for thousands of years as an inexhaustible source of intellectual speculation, religious joy, ethical inquiry, and artistic renewal.… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
There is not one person who can fulfill all your needs. You may choose a partner who is your intellectual equal, and… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
I think what drives scientists is this tremendous intellectual adventure - pushing the boundaries of knowledge, walking down a track that nobody… — Suzanne Cory Copy Share Image
I was raised a right-wing Republican and was about eighteen when I had to admit to myself that in regards to the… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
The practice of celibacy alone was opening me up to a deeper sense of the way the mind-body connection works. I saw… — Noah Levine Copy Share Image
The intellectual is not defined by professional group and type of occupation. Nor are good upbringing and a good family enough in… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
What I liked about Mulder was his quality of not caring what other people thought of him. He was very independent. He… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
One of the unspoken themes that I'm grappling with in Day of Honey is the relationship between violence and cosmopolitanism. It's one… — Annia Ciezadlo Copy Share Image
I do think that copyrights and intellectual property are important - it's important to be able to keep people from making verbatim… — Shepard Fairey Copy Share Image
...the sounds next door served as a kind of trip wire: I seemed to stumble and fall on my face, skinning and… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
I came to the conclusion that most people in America would really like to be able to get a job where they… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
Healing requires far more of us than just the participation of our intellectual and even our emotional resources. And it certainly demands… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
America's intellectual community has never been very bright. Or honest. They're all sheep, following whatever the intellectual fashion of the decade happens… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“ I died to the inorganic state and became endowed with growth, and then I died to vegetable growth and attained to… — Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi Copy Share Image
The moral faculties are generally esteemed, and with justice, as of higher value than the intellectual powers. But we should always bear… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Regarding social order, [Francis] Fukuyama writes, "The systematic study of how order, and thus social capital, can emerge in spontaneous and decentralized… — Douglass North Copy Share Image
The intellectual tradition of the West is very individualistic. It's not community-based. The intellectual is often thought of as a person who… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise. "Necessity is the mother of invention" is a silly… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
That's our nuclear weapons strategy [going to frighten people], as of the early post-Cold War years. And I think this is a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I think it's really important, when you're redefining a character [ Spider-Man], for the audience to experience things that they haven't experienced,… — Marc Webb Copy Share Image
We have entered a new phase of culture - we may call it the Age of the Cinema - in which the… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
Habit is necessary. It is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
We had made a - sort of a national decision that we wanted to be this intellectual property country, where we would… — Esther Dyson Copy Share Image
Any woman who wishes to be an intellectual, to write non-fiction, to deal with theory, faces a lot of discrimination coming her… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
It is terrible that we all die and lose everything we love; it is doubly terrible that so many human beings suffer… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Some men of a secluded and studious life, have sent forth from their closet or their cloister, rays of intellectual light that… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Weak logic, inconsistencies and alienation from the people are common features of authoritarianism. The relentless attempts of totalitarian regimes to prevent free… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
Great writers, I discovered, were not to be bowed down before and worshipped, but embraced and befriended. Their names resounded through history… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
If by 'intellectual' you mean people who are a special class who are in the business of imposing thoughts and forming ideas… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I love to read about music and about art, but I don't try and take things about mythology or guidelines as to… — Emily Haines Copy Share Image
There is always the working out of things, and you have to have sort of a gut response to it. And an… — Andy Summers Copy Share Image
“Nevertheless, what was made in the hope of transforming the world need not be rejected because it failed to do so –… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
Let's find and remedy all our weaknesses before our enemies get a chance to say a word. That is what Charles Darwin… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
“I was utterly convinced that an intellectual could never be anything but an intellectual, was simply not capable of being anything else,… — Leonid Borodin Copy Share Image
Curiosity, which may or may not eventuate in something useful, is probably the most outstanding characteristic of modern thinking ... Institutions of… — Abraham Flexner Copy Share Image
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