“If thinking is an intellectual response to a problem, then the absence of a problem leads to the absence of thinking.” — Harvard Business School Press Copy Share Image
It is very rare in the life of an intellectual to see your support network show up all at once. — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
Unbelief is judged by Jesus not as an intellectual error but as a hostile act of prejudice against God himself. — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
The stupidity of a stupid man is mercifully intimate and reticient, while the stupidity of an intellectual is cried from the rooftops. — Peter Ustinov Copy Share Image
It's not the most intellectual job in the world, but I do have to know the letters. — Vanna White Copy Share Image
Health begins with firmness in the body, deepens to emotional stability, then leads to intellectual clarity, wisdom and finally the unveiling of… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
A man must not only have faith but intellectual faith too. To make a man take up everything and believe it, would… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
These esoteric, intellectual debates-I want them to come to New Jersey and sit across from the widows and the orphans and have… — Chris Christie Copy Share Image
The essential nature of a democracy compels it to insist that individual power of all kinds, political, economic, or intellectual, shall not… — Herbert Croly Copy Share Image
The telephone is the greatest single enemy of scholarship; for what our intellectual forebears used to inscribe in ink now goes once… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The aspirations of most people--security, pleasure, leisure, meaningful work, creative and intellectual pursuits--are to be supported. These desires and dreams are not… — Irena Klepfisz Copy Share Image
Globalisation, technological change, and the move to flexible labour markets has channelled more and more income to rentiers - those owning financial,… — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
One can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's no greater tragedy than an equal intensity, in the same soul or the same man, of the intellectual sentiment and the… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
The proper method for hastening the decay of error, is not, by brute force, or by regulation which is one of the… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
Communism and fascism or nazism, although poles apart in their intellectual content, are similar in this, that both have emotional appeal to… — James A.C. Brown Copy Share Image
The reaction against your own thought in itself lends life to thought. How this reaction is born is hard to describe, because… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Today, practically every country outside the West is undergoing an intellectual, political, and cultural churning, from China to Bolivia, Egypt to Indonesia,… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
The desire of excellence is the necessary attribute of those who excel. We work little for a thing unless we wish for… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. His heart… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
At the classical origins of philosophic thought, the transcending concepts remained committed to the prevailing separation between intellectual and manual labor to… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Through neglect, ignorance, or inability, the new intellectual Borgias cram hairballs down our throats and refuse us the convulsion that could make… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
For me, one of the highlights of being in the private equity world is that you need to learn a lot and… — David Bonderman Copy Share Image
It is an unfortunate fact that every man who seeks to disseminate knowledge must contend not only against ignorance itself, but against… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
As soon as you understand 2 x 4 you can't believe there was a time when you didn't understand it. — Cynthia Lewis Copy Share Image
The backwardness of our religious and social developments is undoubtedly holding back the development of the intellectual and political levels. — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
Intellectual liberty is the air of the soul, the sunshine of the mind, and without it, the world is a prison, the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
It is through the acceptance of a variety of aethetic and intellectual points of view that a culture is given breadth and… — Louise Bogan Copy Share Image
The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness. — Robert M. Hutchins Copy Share Image
I couldn't pass a senior high school math test right now, but I could probably teach intellectual property and trademark law at… — Eric Bischoff Copy Share Image
The most dangerous enemy to Israel's security is the intellectual inertia of those who are responsible for security. — David Ben-Gurion Copy Share Image
Some people go into tantra with the idea, sort of an intellectual approach, that now they can just do everything and stay… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
To change something in the minds of people - that's the role of an intellectual. — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Policy wonks are often dazzled by the simplicity and clarity of an intellectual theory. — Nick Boles Copy Share Image
It's not highly intellectual material. I'm dedicating it to the pulp fiction of the past. — Bruce Boxleitner Copy Share Image
In companies whose wealth is intellectual capital, networks, rather than hierarchies, are the right organizational design. — Thomas A. Stewart Copy Share Image
“I believe that the principal asset I need to protect and cultivate is my deep-seated intellectual insecurity.” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward. ” — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Even though basketball takes up most of my time, I try to pursue intellectual interests whenever I can. — Harrison Barnes Copy Share Image
Confucianism is all about tempering your instincts with intellectual discipline, with book learning. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
