In any given society the authority of man over man runs in inverse proportion to the intellectual development of that society. — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
The most powerful influence exercised by the Arabs on general natural physics was that directed to the advances of chemistry ; a… — Alexander von Humboldt Copy Share Image
In certain circumstances where he experiments in new types of conduct by cooperating with his equals, the child is already an adult.… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
We live in a historical period characterized by a sharp discrepancy between the intellectual development of man... and his mental-emotional development, which… — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
Our intellectual development in the field of science has outstripped our human development in the field of character. — L. P. Jacks Copy Share Image
The young women, what can they not learn, what can they not achieve, with Columbia University annex thrown open to them? In… — M. E. W. Sherwood Copy Share Image
A divine revelation must necessarily be intolerant of contradiction; it must repudiate all improvement in itself, and view with disdain that arising… — John William Draper Copy Share Image
I am afraid that you have been listening to the conversation of someone older than yourself. That is always a dangerous thing… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Deafness, though it be total and congenital, imposes no limits on the intellectual development of its subjects, save in the single direction… — Edward Miner Gallaudet Copy Share Image
Vegetarianism is not implicitly important for the mental progress or the intellectual development, unless it is supposed to be a remedy to… — Franz Bardon Copy Share Image
In the history of the world the Vedas fill a gap which no literary work in any other language could fill. I… — Max Muller Copy Share Image
In Buddhism, both learning and practice are extremely important, and they must go hand in hand. Without knowledge, just to rely on… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
When children attend schools that place a greater value on discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Psychohistory, like psychoanalysis, is a science in which the researcher's feelings are as much or even more a part of his research… — Lloyd deMause Copy Share Image
If we can find a principle to guide us in the handling of the child between nine and eighteen months, we can… — Selma Fraiberg Copy Share Image
Character grows in the soil of experience with the fertilization of example, the moisture of ambition, and the sunshine of satisfaction. Character… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
My basic idea is that programming is the most powerful medium of developing the sophisticated and rigorous thinking needed for mathematics, for… — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
For the child whose impulsiveness is indulged, who retains his primitive-discharge mechanisms, is not only an ill-behaved child but a child whose… — Selma Fraiberg 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
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
We've had 60 years of intellectual development in Iran. How can we have the same system? Even theories of secularism are constantly… — Akbar Ganji Copy Share Image
The church in all ages and among all peoples has been the consistent enemy of the human race. Everywhere and at all… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
My intellectual development was retarded, as a result of which I began to wonder about space and time only when I had… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
No leader, however great a personality he may be, is as important to a people as their own intellectual development. — George William Russell Copy Share Image
if we were forced to choose just one, there would be no way to deny that Judaism is the most important intellectual… — David Gelernter Copy Share Image