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
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
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
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
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
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 have to understand that America can't just surrender and lose jobs year in and year out. We have to say to… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
The intellectual development of man, far from having get men away from war, has, rather, on the contrary, bring them to a… — African Spir Copy Share Image
I'm committed to the idea that one of the few things human beings have to offer is the richness of unconscious and… — Ntozake Shange Copy Share Image
Once Steve Fuller said that there is this idea that your responsibility as an intellectual is just to speak the truth as… — Julian Baggini 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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
For our intellectual spirit has the power of fire in itself. For no other purpose is it sent by God to the… — Nicholas of Cusa Copy Share Image
A mind does not receive truth as a chest receives jewels that are put into it, but as the stomach takes up… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I note that warmists are often banging on about the fact that sceptics like Christopher Booker and myself 'only' have arts degrees.… — James Delingpole Copy Share Image
“I am a scientist, and as such I am proud to say that being stupid at times is a very human thing.… — Abhijit Naskar 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
