Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions,… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now it's really bad because everything we've done is de-humanizing… — William Glasser Copy Share Image
The only way out is spiritual, intellectual, and emotional revolution in which, finally, we learn to experience first hand the interloping connections… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
I was always a feminist, for I liked intellectual revolt as much as I disliked physical violence. On the whole, I think… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
The Soviet experience was much worse than experts in the West had thought. That discovery had a tremendous impact both on the… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
My father is an intellectual and physical man, which is a rather unusual combination. He's great. As he brought up me and… — Christopher Reeve Copy Share Image
All this is applicable to the intellectual faculties of man. There is a considerable difference between one person and another as regards… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
I don't say things like "the grace of God." All that's white noise to me, not because I'm an intellectual. For many… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Bernard Williams has been a distinctive presence on the intellectual scene for more than three decades. . . . His writings do… — Colin McGinn Copy Share Image
It is a curious paradox that precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity, to those mysterious powers… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I had amazing intellectual privilege as a kid. My mom taught me to read when I was two or three. When I… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
Modern physics has taught us that the nature of any system cannot be discovered by dividing it into its component parts and… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
To say that you can 'have experience,' means, for one thing, that your past plays into and affects your present, and that… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
There is no incompatibility between moral clarity and intellectual firepower, between faith in God and humility -- in fact, they're mutually dependent,… — David Limbaugh Copy Share Image
This is an age of intellectual sauces, of essence, of distillation. We have conclusions without deductions, abridgments of history and abridgments of… — Benjamin Haydon Copy Share Image
Intellectually the French are wonderfully open, in a way the British just don't begin to be. You can question ideas in France,… — Monty Don Copy Share Image
The stricter standards and independent, often conclusive, evidence in the physical sciences cannot be generalized to intellectual activity as a whole, even… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
One of the great intellectual failures of the American intelligence community, and especially the counterterrorism community, is to assume if someone hasn't… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
There are different cinema traditions in France, Spain and other European countries. There's a much stronger intellectual tradition: cinema is seen in… — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
By circumstance and perhaps also by inclination, I think in complete intellectual isolation. To expect others to help me think seems to… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
People recognize intellectual property the same way they recognize real estate. People understand what property is. But it's a new kind of… — Michael Nesmith Copy Share Image
I was actually already doing my Ph.D. in neuroscience when September 11 happened. 'The End Of Faith' is essentially what September 11… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
To me the special quality (which of course many men have as well) is first of all a sharpness, a clarityIt cuts… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
We will see that the greatest problem confronting civilization is not merely religious extremism: rather, it is the larger set of cultural… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
I was recently appointed by President Obama to the President's Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities. I am so excited that the… — Lauren Potter Copy Share Image
The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Clearly, only very unequal intellectual and moral standing could justify having equality imposed, whether the people want it or not, as Dworkin… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
In certain pious people I have found a hatred of reason, and have been favourably disposed to them for it: their bad… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
For many decades now - and certainly during my adult life in academe - the Western intellectual world has not been convinced… — Arthur Peacocke Copy Share Image
Intellectual development was paramount to my father, of course, but he was hardly a geek. He was a man who happened to… — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The study of infinity is much more than a dry academic game. The intellectual pursuit of the absolute infinity is, as Georg… — Rudy Rucker Copy Share Image
The fashionable idiocy that haters must have justifications is one of those ideas that George Orwell said only an intellectual could believe… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Fancy, an animal faculty, is very different from imagination, which is intellectual. The former is passive; but the latter is active and… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
With our present knowledge, we can respond to the challenge of stellar space flight solely with intellectual concepts and purely hypothetical analysis.… — Wernher von Braun Copy Share Image
You do not need intellectuality for deep faith. You do not need it for behaving humanely towards people whether fellow Muslims or… — Talal Asad Copy Share Image
There is no firm reason to anticipate that the intellectual capacities of peoples geographically separated in their evolution should prove to have… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
Every Latter-day Saint should make the study of this book a lifetime pursuit. Otherwise, he is placing his soul in jeopardy and… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
