Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
On those who overanalyze his music: When you tear the wings off a butterfly, it is no longer a butterfly — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
The rare scholars who are nomads-by-choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines. — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
For me socialism has never been an intellectual pursuit. It comes from my upbringing and experience. — Jess Phillips Copy Share Image
My father and mother treated us children as intellectual equals, thus greatly bolstering our self-confidence and our interest in ideas of all… — David Gross Copy Share Image
“I am an intellectual. This does not mean I am intelligent, but that ideas are more important to me than people.” — George Sheehan Copy Share Image
There will always be those little minds who, out of vanity or intellectual display, will attempt to destroy faith in the very… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
To seek "causes" of poverty in this way is to enter an intellectual dead end because poverty has no causes. Only prosperity… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
We were proposing, in a sense, that the rest of the world be made safe for American ideas, as they adopted intellectual… — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share Image
I think I learned discipline on 'Jane Eyre.' Charlotte Bronte's dialogue, the intellectual duel between Rochester and Jane Eyre's character, is so… — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
In intellectual honesty, we should be willing to study and explore the spiritual life with all the rigor and determination we would… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
Unless you are political or intellectual, events like the Depression are seen as personal events. We thought of the Depression as something… — Florynce Kennedy Copy Share Image
Dance exists first on this primordial level, not on an intellectual plane (even though it requires skill and intelligence). Its inmost substance… — Sondra Horton Fraleigh Copy Share Image
Hamlet and Victor Frankenstein are each obsessed with death. Hamlet's whole story is a philosophical preparation for death; Victor's is an intellectual… — Kenneth Branagh Copy Share Image
Any female who thinks that she needs a female in front of her in order to learn as much as she can,… — Heather Mac Donald Copy Share Image
The Republicans, in the various arguments, repeat exactly the same phrases one after another, with no sense of embarrassment, no sense of… — Jay Rockefeller Copy Share Image
I suspect that most of the individuals who have religious faith are content with blind faith. They feel no obligation to understand… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
Growing up in Britain as a rather loose Jew, the two things that didn't belong together were freedom and religious intensity. In… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
The most curious social convention of the great age in which we live is the one to the effect that religious opinions… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The most intelligent hearers are those who enjoy most heartily the simplest preaching. It is not they who clamor for superlatively intellectual… — Austin Phelps Copy Share Image
Greek customs such as wine drinking were regarded as worthy of imitation by other cultures. So the ships that carried Greek wine… — Tom Standage Copy Share Image
“Mom & pop stores are not about something small; they are about something big. Ninety percent of all U.S. businesses are family… — Robert Spector Copy Share Image
Writing and producing the show is an intellectual process. Performing the show is far more athletic and intuitive, because you don't get… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
We define religion as the assumption that life has meaning. Religion, or lack of it, is shown not in some intellectual or… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
A good reliable set of bowels is worth more to a man than any quantity of brains. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Transparency is not the same as looking straight through a building: it's not just a physical idea, it's also an intellectual one. — Helmut Jahn Copy Share Image
Skepticism . . . is not intellectual only it is moral also, a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I think that a failure of statistical thinking is the major intellectual shortcoming of our universities, journalism and intellectual culture. — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Wisdom is corrupted by ambition, even when the quality of the ambition is intellectual. For ambition, even of this quality, is but… — Henry Taylor Copy Share Image
Engineering is not only study of 45 subjects but it is moral studies of intellectual life. Make things as simple as possible..but… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Every word which is used to express a moral or intellectual fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Men think that not being able to wire a plug somehow makes them more creative or intellectual. It just makes them morons. — James May Copy Share Image
The danger is not so much in the economic structure of a society but in its intellectual structure. — Philip Kaufman Copy Share Image
Our loved ones and neighbors with intellectual disabilities and autism deserve to live with dignity and the supports they need to succeed. — Josh Shapiro Copy Share Image
“A willingness to live with irresolvable questions is a mark of intellectual maturity, not a matter of logical nonsense.” — Andreas Köstenberger Copy Share Image
For most people, attaining the intellectual clarity and emotional detachment that investing requires is tough. — Guy Spier Copy Share Image
“The intellectual mind judges a book after having read it. A fool’s mind judges a book by its title.” — Ellen J. Barrier Copy Share Image
All of our life is but a mass of small habits - practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual - that bear us irresistibly… — William James Copy Share Image
The world looks a totally different place after two wins. I can even enjoy watching Blind Date or laugh at Noel's House… — Gordon Strachan Copy Share Image
When the intellectual part of guitar playing overrides the spiritual, you don't get to extreme heights. — John Frusciante Copy Share Image
