Intellectual Quotes

1909 Intellectual quotes by 1296 unique authors

The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer. Indeed the measure of our intellectual maturity, one philosopher… — Gordon W. Allport
Psychoanalytic theory is the most stupendous intellectual confidence trick of the twentieth century and a terminal product as well-something akin to a dinosaur or zeppelin… — Peter Medawar
It's very important to remember that it's your intellectual property; it's not your computer. And in the pursuit of protection of intellectual property, it's important… — Stewart Baker
Intellectual and cultural freedom is the most important single precondition for the breakdown of the kinds of tyrannical and totalitarian systems that periodically threaten us. — James H. Billington
The public school system: "Usually a twelve year sentence of mind control. Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism and compromise, destroying the exercise of intellectual… — Walter Karp
Geology holds the keys of one of the kingdoms of nature; and it cannot be said that a science which extends our Knowledge, and by… — William Buckland
I do not believe that the present flowering of science is due in the least to a real appreciation of the beauty and intellectual discipline… — Derek Barton
Science would not be what it is if there had not been a Galileo, a Newton or a Lavoisier, any more than music would be… — Unknown Author
It is clear, then, that the idea of a fixed method, or of a fixed theory of rationality, rests on too naive a view of… — Paul Feyerabend
It is interesting thus to follow the intellectual truths of analysis in the phenomena of nature. This correspondence, of which the system of the world… — Pierre-Simon Laplace
Too many composers become involved in intellectual speculation which seems to matter more to them than the sound that comes out of all this speculation. — Unknown Author
Painting, like music, has nothing to do with the reproduction of nature, nor interpretation of intellectual meanings. Whoever is able to feel the beauty of… — Unknown Author
While scholars are comparing and contrasting theories, debating intellectual questions, and dividing humankind into categories, the world is changed by persons with faith, spirit, emotion,… — Grey Owl
I believe, indeed, that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and factual, in our education, has led directly to… — Albert Einstein
The main problem with those who deny the existence of God is not intellectual. It is not because of insufficient information, or that God's manifestation… — R C Sproul
Mystical experience of nature can be of particular relevance to our troubled age, bringing deeper into our consciousness and emotions the logic that nature sustains… — Unknown Author
No important change in ethics was ever accomplished without an internal chage in our intellectual emphasis, loyalties, affections, and convictions. — Aldo Leopold
Faith is the avenue to salvation. Not intellectual understanding. Not money. Not your works. Just simple faith. How much faith? The faith of a mustard… — Billy Graham
We shall suffer no attachment to literature, no taste for abstract discussion, no love of purely intellectual theories, to seduce us from our devotion to… — George Ripley
The guesses which serve to give mental unity and wholeness to a chaos of scattered particulars, are accidents which rarely occur to any minds but… — John Stuart Mill

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