Even now, the irony that so non-intellectual a man should choose to engage the Soviet Union on the battlefield of ideas has… — Richard Perle Copy Share Image
“The most dangerous thing about an academic education is that it enables my tendency to over-intellectualize stuff, to get lost in abstract… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
A government at bottom is nothing more than a group of men, and as a practical matter most of them are inferior… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Some people aren't smart enough to understand the intellectual part of a being. That's why as a 30-year-old you don't have a… — The-Dream Copy Share Image
Money is the most important subject intellectual persons can investigate and reflect upon. It is so important that our present civilization may… — Robert W. Hemphill Copy Share Image
Indeed, I did not truly "belong" to any school, order, intellectual camaraderie or clique; I did not apply for admission to any… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
All forms of birth--physical, intellectual, spiritual or emotional--bring one to the depths. The power to give birth originates in the creative life… — Amy Wright Copy Share Image
Science is the greatest creative impulse of our time. It dominates the intellectual scene and forms our lives, not only in the… — Polykarp Kusch Copy Share Image
None of us constitutes a material whole, identical for everyone, which a person has only to go look up as though we… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Character grows in the soil of experience with the fertilization of example, the moisture of ambition, and the sunshine of satisfaction. Character… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
The whole machinery of our intelligence, our general ideas and laws, fixed and external objects, principles, persons, and gods, are so many… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
I think that all journalists, specifically print journalists, have a responsibility to educate the public. When you handle a culture's intellectual property,… — KRS-One 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
For such is man: a Theological Dogma might be refuted to him a thousand times - provided however, that he had need… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I didn't even have a clear idea of why I wanted to go to Oxford - apart from the fact I had… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
My pacifism is an instinctive feeling, a feeling that possesses me because the murder of men is disgusting. My attitude is not… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A teenager can find lots of games, but that's not necessarily true for adults over 30. As you get older, you desire… — Jenova Chen Copy Share Image
Some song ideas absolutely require a kind of rigid discipline, and others require absolute chaotic abandon. The form is only valid if… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
[Mathematics is] purely intellectual, a pure theory of forms, which has for its objects not the combination of quantities or their images,… — Hermann Hankel Copy Share Image
Today we are living in an intellectual and technological paradise and a moral and social nightmare because the intellectual level of evolution,… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
A careful reading of 50 Simple Things leaves you wondering whether you're going to die from environmental disaster or intellectual annoyance. Failing… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
In 1983, when I did 'Sindhu Bhairavi' and played the other woman, many men came up to me and said it opened… — Suhasini Maniratnam Copy Share Image
The American people owe it to themselves, and to the cause of free Government, to prove by their establishments for the advancement… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I have a lot of trouble understanding all the detail of finance and administration - but if you combine intellectual and professional… — Evo Morales Copy Share Image
The corporate community understands the need for rules. Indeed, it argues for regulation to protect intellectual property, physical property rights, and contract… — Sharan Burrow Copy Share Image
It is not the most intellectual of the species that survives; it is not the strongest that survives; but the species that… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
An intellectual's weapon is writing, but sometimes people react as if it were a firearm. A writer can do a lot to… — Mario Benedetti Copy Share Image
Over-intellectualizing can justify practically anything. Reason has reasons that can create holocausts. In the 20th century, we have certainly seen how much… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
Mary McCarthy and that Mr. Intellectual kind of guy ... Dwight McDonald? And they were really mean about [Jerome David] Salinger, and… — Whit Stillman Copy Share Image
My mother was a sociologist and an intellectual, and my father was an industrialist with a business in copper and aluminum wire.… — Carmen Busquets Copy Share Image
Computers and smart devices are among the greatest intellectual gifts ever created for man but, if not balanced with human contact, may… — Angela Ahrendts Copy Share Image
As I understand it, I am being paid only for my work in arranging the words; my property is that arrangement. The… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Many do not understand how precarious Western civilization is and what a joy it is. From it, we get real democracy. From… — John Rhys-Davies Copy Share Image
All religions bear traces of the fact that they arose during the intellectual immaturity of the human race - before it had… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely… — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
Education should therefore include the two forms of work, manual and intellectual, for the same person, and thus make it understood by… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
The "intellectuals" will always have problems, because they always need to "know." They're often the most spiritually bankrupt people, because they never… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
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