People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Literature is a comprehensive essence of the intellectual life of a nation. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina. — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“The good is the brother of the true; it will help its brother.” — Antonin Sertillanges Copy Share Image
Agitation is that part of our intellectual life where vitality results; there ideas are born, breed and bring forth. — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts. — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life. — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
Ninety percent of the difficulty in your intellectual life would never have happened if you just had better taste. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The liberal professions, and in a wider sense the well-to-do classes, are certainly those with the liveliest taste for knowledge and the… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
As a financial historian, I was quite isolated in Oxford - British historians are supposed to write about kings - so the… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
The Greeks, those originators of the intellectual life, fixed for us the idea of the poet. He was a divine man; more… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
The intellectual life may be kept clean and healthful, if man will live the life of nature, and not import into his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is, therefore, a more perfect intellectual life in the angels. In them the intellect does not proceed to self-knowledge from anything… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
I have never heard of anyone who was a "model person" in all aspects of his or her life, intellectual life or… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
No vital Christianity is possible unless at least three aspects of it are developed. These are the inner life of devotion, the… — D. Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
The truth is that personality inevitably bleeds into all forms of our intellectual life. We all extrapolate from our own lives in… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
The human race, in its intellectual life, is organized like the bees: the masculine soul is a worker, sexually atrophied, and essentially… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
I think serious research tends to be associated with higher academic quality, more prestige, more resources, and even, heaven help us, better… — Nicholas Lemann Copy Share Image
Pragmatism , in trying to turn experimental physics into a prototype of all science and to model all spheres of intellectual life… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
The most glorious vision of the intellectual life is still that which is loosely called humanist: the idea of a mind committed… — Irving Howe Copy Share Image
In our fast-food nation, we tend to think that the intellectual life, like everything else, can be had pre-chewed and in bulk… — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
“The man who is too isolated grows timid, abstracted, a little odd: He stumbles along amid realities like a sailor who has… — Antonin Sertillanges Copy Share Image
“Simply to render oneself able to understand what other Christian thinkers have themselves come to understand and to more or less felicitously… — Gregory B. Sadler Copy Share Image
Capitalist agricultural production prevents the return to the soil of its elements consumed by man in the form of food and clothing;… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“Let your mind become a lens, thanks to the converging rays of attention; let your soul be all intent on whatever it… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“When, thirty-five years ago, I tried to give a summary of the ideas and principles of that social philosophy that was once… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
It has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge 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
“Here was intellectual life, he thought, and here was beauty, warm and wonderful as he had never dreamed it could be. He… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“In the same way it may be said that a man endowed with great mental gifts leads, apart from the individual life… — Arthur Schopenhaur Copy Share Image
Consistency in opinion is the slow poison of intellectual life, the destroyer of its vividness and energy. — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
Is there intellectual life in America? At present, the answer is no. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
And what, then, is belief? It is the demi-cadence which closes a musical phrase in the symphony of our intellectual life. — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
The goal of intellectual life should be to see and understand what is true, not merely to adhere to a prevailing orthodoxy. — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share Image
All our inventions have endowed material forces with intellectual life, and degraded human life into a material force. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The pointless ferocities of intellectual life shock businessmen, who kill only to eat. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life ... can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Human learning presupposes a specific social nature and a process by which children grow into the intellectual life of those around them — Lev S. Vygotsky Copy Share Image
Greed probably figures in my intellectual life as well, as I attempt to absorb a massive amount of information with consequent mental… — Etty Hillesum Copy Share Image
There's guilt about our treatment of native peoples in modern intellectual life, and an unwillingness to acknowledge there could be anything good… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
