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
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
“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
I am curious to see what books will emerge from all this writing online that's the result of those who grew up… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
To be ignorant and simple now-not to be able to meet the enemies on their own ground-would be to throw down our… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
You don't have any other society where the educated classes are so effectively indoctrinated and controlled by a subtle propaganda system -… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I've never had a stupid student in my life. I never look down on my students. I never thought, "Look at these… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
According to the most common interpretation of biblical prophecy, Jesus will return only after things have gone horribly awry. Imagine the consequences… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
A more appropriate expansion is the statement "it is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies" a transcript… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
More attention to the History of Science is needed, as much by scientists as by historians, and especially by biologists, and this… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
Science is an intellectual journey, and to me, it's not the destination, it's the journeyto get there. It's a way of thinking… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
“Why, my dear Basil, he is a Narcissus, and you—well, of course you have an intellectual expression, and all that. But beauty,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
But when, at the end of my sophomore year, I became a philosophy major and started doing my first seriously pretentious thinking,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Not understanding the process of a spontaneously-ordered economy goes hand-in-hand with not understanding the creation of resources and wealth. And when a… — Julian Simon Copy Share Image
What matters at this stage is the construction of local forms of community within which civility and the intellectual and moral life… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
...in song the words tend to lose their significance, do often lose it, while at the other extreme, in current prose it… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
My wish is to help design the future of learning by supporting children all over the world to tap into their innate… — Sugata Mitra Copy Share Image
My point is, however, that churches do promote beliefs that would more appropriately find a place in a context of intellectual debate.… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
Children, by nature, are keen, passionate and curious. What was referred to as laziness is often merely an awakening of sensitivity, a… — Octave Mirbeau Copy Share Image
Total experiences, of which there are many kinds, tend again and again to be apprehended only as revivals or translations of the… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
It is not the eye that sees the beauty of the heaven, nor the ear that hears the sweetness of music or… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
There is a progression of understanding vis-a-vis pro football that varies drastically with the factor of distance -- physical, emotional, intellectual and… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Russia could be, in fact, it would have to be a different Russia, but it could be a splendid ally. I will… — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality. In left-wing circles it is always felt… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Men and women are so alike that a woman must make an intellectual effort to differentiate herself. As soon as one understands… — Sonia Rykiel 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
Everybody should read fiction… I don’t think serious fiction is written for a few people. I think we live in a stupid… — Percival Everett Copy Share Image
“You must create your life, as you’d create a work of art. It’s necessary that the life of an intellectual be artwork… — Gabriele D'Anunnzio Copy Share Image
It is through an "intimate cessation of all intellectual operations" that the mind is laid bare. If nor, discourse maintains it in… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
The ministers are in duty bound to denounce all intellectual pride, and show that we are never quite so dear to God… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“We still have not defined the intellectual yet: all we have are technicians of practical knowledge who either accommodate themselves to their… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
During all the first part of the Middle Ages, no other people made as important a contribution to human progress as did… — Philip Khuri Hitti 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
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
What is work going to look like in the future? How are Democrats going to be able to give people a sense… — Michael Kazin 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
