“Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn” — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
PASTIME, n. A device for promoting dejection. Gentle exercise for intellectual debility. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The rapists of the intellectual world become politicians; the seducers become artists. — Robert Anton Wilson 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
For me photography is not an intellectual process. It is a visual one… Whether we like it or not, we are involved… — Marc Riboud Copy Share Image
An abyss seems to have opened between the intellectual cosmopolites of culture and the people, hungry for word and meaning. — Meridel Le Sueur Copy Share Image
At the outstart of discussions of women's intellectual attainments, it is well to remember how few are the men of the first… — Anna Garlin Spencer Copy Share Image
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Richard Hofstadter, in his famous book which was written in the time of the McCarthy period in the 1950 and 1960s, Anti-intellectualism… — Joan Wallach Scott Copy Share Image
In some sense our aim ought to be to convert the school from an academic institution into an intellectual one. That shift… — Elliot W. Eisner Copy Share Image
The distinction between mind and body is an artificial dichotomy, a discrimination which is unquestionably based far more on the peculiarity of… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Along with Islam and Christianity, Judaism does insist that some turgid and contradictory and sometimes evil and mad texts, obviously written by… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
A man rejects God neither because of intellectual demands nor because of the scarcity of evidence. A man rejects God because of… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
in the will of God" is not a matter of intellectual discernment, but a state of heart... It's motto is --" My… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
The manner in which one single ray of light, one single precious hint, will clarify and energize the whole mental life of… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
I think the general public's response to my projects is very strong. You can be an intellectual and say that popularity detracts… — Moshe Safdie Copy Share Image
There is no contradiction between technology and spirit. There is no contradiction between the search for intellectual integration and understanding and the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
It is easy enough to write and talk about God while remaining comfortable within the contemporary intellectual climate. Even people who would… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
If instituted, the TPP's IP regime would trample over individual rights and free expression, as well as ride roughshod over the intellectual… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
“A whole lot of us go through life assuming that we are basically right, basically all the time, about basically everything: about… — Kathryn Schulz Copy Share Image
Divine Providence is connected with Divine intellectual influence, and the same beings which are benefited by the latter so as to become… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
Pale, nervous girls with black-rimmed glasses and blunt-cut hair lolled around on sofas, riffling Penguin Classics provocatively… But it wasn’t just intellectual… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Human physical structures and intellectual structures are generally studied in different ways. The assumption is that physical structures are genetically inherited and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
But if we laugh with derision, we will never understand. Human intellectual capacity has not altered for thousands of years so far… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Anxiety is the essential condition of intellectual and artistic creation and everything that is finest in human history. — Charles Frankel 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
John Connally's conversion to the GOP raised the intellectual level of both parties. — Frank Mankiewicz Copy Share Image
God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
An invaluable part of intellectual (and personal) growth comes from having the freedom to express your own ideas, and to engage with… — Kat Timpf Copy Share Image
George Bush's political, intellectual and other shortcomings cannot be restricted to one sentence. — Emilio Botin Copy Share Image
I may turn out an intellectual, but I'll never write anything but mediocre poetry. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Pick up a grain a day and add to your heap. You will soon learn, by happy experience, the power of littles… — John Seely Hart Copy Share Image
Never confuse faith, or belief—of any kind—with something even remotely intellectual. — John Irving Copy Share Image
I think if I hadn't become a sociologist, I would have become very anti-intellectual. — Pierre Bourdieu Copy Share Image
Professional intellectuals are the voice of a culture and are, therefore, its leaders, its integrators and its bodyguards. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
To know whom to strike is competence; to know how to strike is skill; to know where and when to strike is… — James Roby Copy Share Image
The means of effective communication are being expropriated from the intellectual worker. — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
It is He who gave to this intellectual nature free-will of such a kind, that if he wishes to forsake God his… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Contraction of theological influence has at once been the best measure, and the essential condition of intellectual advance. — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
“It needs to be said that faith-journeys are never simply intellectual exercises.” — Timothy J. Keller Copy Share Image
