One can never read too little of bad, or too much of good books: bad books are intellectual poison; they destroy the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
An intellectual hatred is the worst, So let her think opinions are accursed. Have I not seen the loveliest woman born Out… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
I'm really lucky because my sister is a real activist soul and also hyper-intellectualized in this way that's really allowed me to… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
What is more absurd and more impious than to attribute the name of Lucifer to the devil, that is, to personified evil.… — Eliphas Levi Copy Share Image
You can do the best research and be making the strongest intellectual argument, but if readers don't get past the third paragraph… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
I think there's too much mixing fashion and intellect. Fashion ultimately is designed to cover the human body, to give you joy,… — Suzy Menkes Copy Share Image
As regards intellectual work it remains a fact, indeed, that great decisions in the realm of thought and momentous discoveries and solutions… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The intellectual quest, though fine as pearl or coral, is not the spiritual search. That spiritual search is on another level. Spiritual… — Rumi Copy Share Image
I'm obsessed - not just interested, obsessed - with folk music, street music, the parallels between a country's street music and its… — Jimmy Page Copy Share Image
You can't relate to an absolute or it wouldn't be absolute, it would be relative. On an intellectual level, that's easy. However,… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
Recently while browsing in a secondhand bookstore I bought a paperback copy of The Intellectual and the City, but I was unable… — Florence King Copy Share Image
Everybody knows what they were kind of drawn towards or what they're gifted at and it's more of courage and looking at… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Religions, of course, have their own demanding intellectual traditions, as Jesuits and Talmudic scholars might attest… But, in its less rigorous, popular… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
This was solidarity. The debutante having her toenails pedicured - the housewife buying carrots from a pushcart - the bookkeeper who had… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The church in all ages and among all peoples has been the consistent enemy of the human race. Everywhere and at all… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The artist must operate on the assumption that the public consists in the highest order of individual; that he is civilized, cultured,… — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
Curiosity, earnest research to learn the hidden laws of nature, gladness akin to rapture, as they unfolded to me, are among the… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
Most men use their knowledge only under guidance from others because they lack the courage to think independently using their own reasoning… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Psychic development is a necessary skill in leading a successful and happy life. Your intellectual processes and your senses don't give you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The fundamentalists, by 'knowing' the answers before they start, and then forcing nature into the straitjacket of their discredited preconceptions, lie outside… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Actually, I've never thought myself as being a particularly hard worker. I've always worked, and I guess my mind is busy all… — Sam Wyly Copy Share Image
Investors should start with a view of skepticism. They should become intellectual investors rather than emotional investors. They should be careful, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My mother, who was professional schoolteacher, was particularly concerned about our formal education and even went so far as to start a… — Robert B. Laughlin Copy Share Image
If anything, Brown is more oriented towards the other side of the Atlantic than Blair. Most of his reforming ideas and intellectual… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
For years I have engaged with this ecological crisis on an intellectual level, the mounting evidence, the science... but now I have… — Gail Bradbrook Copy Share Image
“The intellectual is and only can be a militant, engaged as a singularity among others, embarked on the project of co-research aimed… — Michael Hardt Copy Share Image
Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser's gains are ours without his cares. Thus I have soared above this world,… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Just as the philanthropist is the nuisance of the ethical sphere, so the nuisance of the intellectual sphere is the man who… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Everyone thinks that Jean-Luc is an intellectual. But he's very a sportive person too. He likes action. He likes people to be… — Anna Karina Copy Share Image
The arts, like language, emerged spontaneously and universally in similar forms across cultures, employing imaginative and intellectual capacities that had clear survival… — Denis Dutton Copy Share Image
Every intellectual revolution which has ever stirred humanity into greatness has been a passionate protest against inert ideas. Then, alas, with pathetic… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
ORU is a daring new concept in higher education. It was planned to be from the beginning, one that would be able… — Oral Roberts Copy Share Image
My parents themselves both went to university, and they very much expected me to be an intellectual and go through further education,… — Ana Ivanovic Copy Share Image
How miserable a solipsist is! It is rather senseless for him to even assert his belief in solipsism, for, on the one… — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
The sheer quantity of brain power that hurled itself voluntarily and quixotically into the search for new baseball knowledge was either exhilarating… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
Life at university, with its intellectual and inconclusive discussions at a postgraduate level is on the whole a bad training for the… — Paul Chambers Copy Share Image
I knew lots of Irish ladies in my life who would say daft things and then would just say something incredibly truthful… — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
Laughter is man's most distinctive emotional expression. Man shares the capacity for love and hate, anger and fear, loyalty and grief, with… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Even today, in our industrial life, apart from certain values of industriousness and thrift, the intellectual and emotional reaction of the forms… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
I was addicted to hacking, more for the intellectual challenge, the curiosity, the seduction of adventure; not for stealing, or causing damage… — Kevin Mitnick Copy Share Image
