The best aphorisms are… portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling. They furnish the largest amount of intellectual stimulus and… — William Rounseville Alger Copy Share Image
To win in the game of life, we all need both a healthy mind and body. By involving children in the fun… — Digger Phelps Copy Share Image
Oh, talk as we may of beauty as a thing to be chiselled from marble or wrought out on canvas, speculate as… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
In many places, above all in the Anglo-Saxon countries, logistics is today considered the only possible form of strict philosophy, because its… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
The violent, antirationalistic impulse in Western countries is reacting to an intellectual state of affairs in which all thinking has become strategy;… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
He (Intellectuals) claims that label to compensate for his own inadequacies. It's as old as that saying: tell me what you boast… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Small groups have always been the locus of change. What they do, in a sometimes offhand way, is constellate new cultural forms… — Stephanie Mills Copy Share Image
I don’t really know what “intellectual” means, but if it means you’ve got a desire to learn, you’ve got a desire to… — Pete Doherty Copy Share Image
If God existed (a question concerning which Jubal maintained a meticulous intellectual neutrality) and if He desired to be worshiped (a proposition… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“What I must do, is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Faith always presented to the mind the idea of an abnormal intellectual condition, of the subversion or suspension of the critical faculties.… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
The means of communication, the irresistible output of the entertainment and information industry carry with them prescribed attitudes and habits, certain intellectual… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
It is the freedom to blaspheme, to transgress, to move beyond the pale, that is at the heart of all intellectual, artistic… — Kenan Malik Copy Share Image
We cannot know the consequences of suppressing a child's spontaneity when he is just beginning to be active. We may even suffocate… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Great artistic talent in any direction... is hardly inherent to the man. It comes and goes; it is often possessed only for… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Fantasy consists in a morbid fascination with unrealities, which secretly transforms itself into a desire to make them real. Imagination is a… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
The lure in art collecting and its financial rewards, not counting for a moment its aesthetic, cultural and intellectual rewards, is like… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
The theory that the biosphere was created without evolution, a few thousand years ago, is ruled out by overwhelming scientific evidence. To… — David Deutsch 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
One of the challenges in writing the script Call Me by Your Name was that I had to find something concrete for… — James Ivory Copy Share Image
Every breeze wafts intelligence from country to country, every wave rolls it and gives it forth, and all in turn receive it.… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Conservatism, though a necessary element in any stable society, is not a social program; in its paternalistic, nationalistic and power adoring tendencies… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
For more than twenty-five years my mind had been deeply troubled by the fact that these mechanical and scientific achievements ofman had… — Virginia Gildersleeve Copy Share Image
“In every country the intellectual class is the most influential class. This is the class which can foresee advice and lead. In… — B.R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
My aim is to be understood by everyone. I reject the 'depth' that people demand nowadays, into which you can never descend… — George Grosz Copy Share Image
Human beings are very unbalanced and prone to go off on tangents. In every area of life- with too great emphasis on… — Edith Schaeffer Copy Share Image
Obviously, despite hard work and heroic efforts, many dreams don't come true. But if we don't dare to dream and then throw… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
Worship is a powerful witness to unbelievers-if God's presence is felt, and if the message is understandable. God's presence must be sensed… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
I opposed the Fatwa against Salman Rushdie. I read the book and took a critical distance. I did not think The Satanic… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
I do indeed disbelieve that we or any other mortal men can attain on a given day to absolutely incorrigible and unimprovable… — William James Copy Share Image
Intellectuals range through the finest gradations of kind and quality: from those who are merely educated neurotics, usually with strong hidden reactionary… — Louise Bogan Copy Share Image
The greatest crisis of our lives is neither economic, intellectual, nor even what we usually call religious. It is a crisis of… — Marc Gafni Copy Share Image
Embedded in every technology there is a powerful idea, sometimes two or three powerful ideas. Like language itself, a technology predisposes us… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
A multidisciplinary study group ... estimated that it would be 1980 before developments in artificial intelligence make it possible for machines alone… — J. C. R. Licklider Copy Share Image
We like to pretend the core ideas of the faith are more palatable or workable within our modern rationalistic approach to Scripture… — Michael S. Heiser Copy Share Image
These events are swirling around them. In the white community, people felt like they had no control over their neighborhoods, their destiny.… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
The news today about 'Atomic bombs' is so horrifying one is stunned. The utter folly of these lunatic physicists to consent to… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
It's not that I am demanding empathy for trans people. It's actually more than I'm demanding that readers have empathy for themselves,… — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
When asked if I consider myself Buddhist, the answer is, Not really. But it's more my religion than any other because I… — Uma Thurman Copy Share Image
Awakening is waking up from the daytime dream and realizing that who you thought you were is not limited to thought, emotion… — Katie Davis Copy Share Image
