I think it indisputable that the distance between the intellectual faculties of different men is greater than that between the same faculties… — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
Christianity also stands in opposition to intellectual, as well as physical, health. To doubt becomes sin. 'Faith means not wanting to know… — Robert Sheaffer Copy Share Image
It is, however, not to the museum, or the lecture-room, or the drawing- school, but to the library, that we must go… — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton Copy Share Image
The most intellectual of men are moved quite as much by the circumstances which they are used to as by their own… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
Even before I had children I wanted the intensity of my life to get greater. I wanted to feel things more strongly.… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
These anti-public intellectuals are part of a disimagination machine that solidifies the power of the rich and the structures of the military-industrial-surveillance-academic… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
When you go to a great concert, you feel this arc, almost like the music of a well-chosen set takes you on… — John Green Copy Share Image
If partisanship makes us abandon intellectual honesty, if we oppose what our opponents say or do simply because they are the ones… — Kurt Andersen Copy Share Image
There's a depth to the nightmare, to the symbolism you can exploit, on an intellectual level, on a sexual level, on a… — Robert Englund Copy Share Image
When a spectator approaches a painting with his own particular set of filters or theories, be they historical, political, intellectual or whatever… — Douglas Portway Copy Share Image
Random search for data on ... off-chance is hardly scientific. A questionnaire on 'Intellectual Immoralities' was circulated by a well-known institution. 'Intellectual… — Hans Selye Copy Share Image
The university is a vast public utility which turns out future workers in today's vineyard, the military-industrial complex. They've got to be… — Mario Savio Copy Share Image
Dark influences from the American past congregate among us still. If we are a democracy, what are we to make of the… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
We must continually remind students in the classroom that expression of different opinions and dissenting ideas affirms the intellectual process. We should… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress. It deepens our natural sensibilities, and strengthens by exercise our… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
Truth and falsity, indeed understanding, is not necessarily something purely intellectual, remote from feelings and attitudes. ... It is in the total… — Max Wertheimer Copy Share Image
(Politeness is) a tacit agreement that people's miserable defects, whether moral or intellectual, shall on either side be ignored and not be… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Suddenly absurdism wasn’t an intellectual abstraction, it was actually realism. You could see the way that wealth was begetting wealth, wealth was… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
The millions are awake enough for physical labor; but only one in a million is awake enough for effective intellectual exertion, only… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There has to be a reason of whether you look right or you bring the emotional or intellectual baggage of what's required… — Ciaran Hinds Copy Share Image
Canada is either an idea or it does not exist. It is either an intellectual undertaking or it is little more than… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
I couldn't stand being identified by my sexuality, I retaliated by insisting that people regard me for my intellectual worth. My intellect… — Leora Tanenbaum Copy Share Image
If you get into a fight and somebody punches you, you get two feelings. One: That really hurts. Two: That relief in… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
I think there are three kinds of songs; it's only my theory: psychological, emotional, and spiritual. When you write psychologically or intellectually,… — Neil Sedaka Copy Share Image
Keynes vs Hayek? Friedman vs Krugman? Those are the wrong intellectual debates. Its you vs. Tony Hayward, BP CEO, You vs. Lloyd… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
The removal of religion as history from our schoolbooks betrays the intellectual dishonesty of secular humanist educators and reveals their blind hostility… — Tim LaHaye Copy Share Image
While cyber espionage is having a tremendous negative affect on the global economy from the theft-caused drain of intellectual property and the… — Dmitri Alperovitch Copy Share Image
And as secretary of state, I fought hard for American businesses to get a fair shot around the world and to stop… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Religion is a self-conferred intellectual decision; it's not something you get at birth and is unchangeable. You're collusive with the religion when… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Generally speaking, it's a matter of only mild intellectual interest to me whether the earth goes around the sun or the sun… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I'm not a twentieth-century novelist, I'm not modern, and certainly not postmodern. I follow the form of the nineteenth-century novel; that was… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Academic disciplines are subject to being overtaken by attacks of "knowingness"- a state of mind and soul that prevents shudders of awe… — Richard Rorty Copy Share Image
Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admirable when it sparkles in the setting of a modest… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
One of the categories of people I don't like much are intellectuals. People say, 'Oh, you're an intellectual,' and I say, 'No!'… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
Are zombies possible? They're not just possible, they're actual. We're all zombies. Nobody is conscious — not in the systematically mysterious way… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
Race does not come into it. It is pure religion and culture. Something about the cultural tradition of Jews is way, way… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Citizens of the democratic societies should undertake a course of intellectual self defense to protect themselves from manipulation and control, and to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to the… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Yes, I am calling for an intellectual revolution that sweeps away the corruption, absurdity and error, which prevail in morals, customs, traditions,… — Ameen Rihani Copy Share Image
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