The more we can do to support and promulgate the intellectual traditions of the Abrahamic faiths - of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
Studying the universe engages us in something bigger than ourselves. Science tries to describe, in terms we can only grasp intuitively, things… — Guy Consolmagno Copy Share Image
I never abandoned Yves Saint Laurent. I used to have lunch with him twice a week. I also saw him every Saturday.… — Pierre Berge Copy Share Image
I am unaware of his plans but I shall never stop believing in them because I cannot fathom them and I prefer… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business - everything. I think you could have an intellectual ability, but if… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
I'm someone who can provide an intellectual framework, but I can't tell people who are trying to sell Product X how to… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
As for the accusation of intellectual pride, surely the boot is on the other foot. Atheists don't claim to know anything with… — Barbara Smoker Copy Share Image
“Intellectuals that approach me, only serve to feeding my intellectualism. Imaginists that approach me, only serve to enhancing my Imaginism. It's impossible… — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
I have bad days. Sometimes I have a lot of bad days. By and large, I think most people fall into a… — Maria Popova Copy Share Image
Politics is a dirty business, a ruse, an ideological cul-de-sac, a vast looter of intellectual and financial resources, a lie that corrupts,… — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share Image
It is much easier to make intellectual messes than it is to clarify complicated issues, especially when real solutions would challenge the… — David W. Orr Copy Share Image
A necessary part of our intelligence is on the line as the oral tradition becomes less and less important. There was a… — Wes Jackson Copy Share Image
Given the power and influence that science increasingly has in our daily lives, it is important that we as citizens of an… — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share Image
O God, teach me to be satisfied with my own helplessness in the spiritual life. Teach me to be content with Your… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
What is irreversible in the Arab world is this intellectual revolution, the awakening that we can get rid of dictators. That is… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
Man offers himself to God. He stands before Him like the canvas before the painter or the marble before the sculptor. At… — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling… — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
It's very lonely being a prominent black intellectual at an institution where you're the only prominent black intellectual. That was the model… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
I suppose I've always carried what is regarded as a bit of unnecessary baggage in Britain. I've always carried the charge that… — Chris Patten Copy Share Image
It wasn't idealism that made me, from the beginning, want a more secure and rational society. It was an intellectual judgment, to… — Raymond Williams Copy Share Image
The need for truth is not constant; no more than is the need for repose. An idea which is a distortion may… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Whoever takes it upon himself to write an honest intellectual history of twentieth-century Europe will need a strong stomach. But he will… — Mark Lilla Copy Share Image
The most glorious vision of the intellectual life is still that which is loosely called humanist: the idea of a mind committed… — Irving Howe Copy Share Image
It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time - for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The typical WW1 soldier was not an intellectual like Ernst Jünger or Wilfred Owen, but was a peasant draftee from Galicia or… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
I collected men with interesting names. I already knew a Socrates. He was tall and ugly and intellectual and the son of… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Custodial education does not have as its objective the education of youth but rather social control over them. It suppresses rather than… — John Conyers Copy Share Image
Aping urbanity, Oozing with vanity, Plump as a manatee, Faking humanity, Intellectual inanity, Journalistic calamity, Fox Noise insanity, You're a profanity, Hannity — John Cleese Copy Share Image
The fact is, every thinker, every philosopher, the moment he is forced to abandon his one-sided intellectual occupation by practical necessity, immediately… — Ernst Mach Copy Share Image
Humans are addicted to the hope for a final reckoning, but intellectual humility requires that we resist the temptation to assume that… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
I'm really trying to dredge up what one might call intellectual and moral material. For example, when do you realize that you… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Darwin was not afraid to look deeply into the void. His bold view can be seen as either noble and pessimistic or… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
Immanuel Kant lived with knowledge as with his lawfully wedded wife, slept with it in the same intellectual bed for forty years… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
And that must end us, that must be our cure: To be no more. Sad cure! For who would lose, Though full… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Harvard is first and foremost a university and not a consulting operation, and our job here is to teach and to research… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are people out there who don't see value in intellectual property, and so they're always going to have a problem if… — Paul Allen Copy Share Image
Being tired of all illusions and of everything about illusions – the loss of illusions, the uselessness of having them, the prefatigue… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Socialism is young and has made errors. Many times revolutionaries lack the knowledge and intellectual courage needed to meet the task of… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
The golden rule for understanding spiritually is not intellect, but obedience. If a man wants scientific knowledge, intellectual curiosity is his guide;… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
The most significant moment in the course of intellectual development, which gives birth to the purely human forms of practical and abstract… — Lev Vygotsky Copy Share Image
