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Intellectual Quotes by Albert Einstein
- 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…
- I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional atheist whose fervor is mostly due to a painful act of liberation from the fetters…
- A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way, but intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.
- 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…
- When the nazis came to power, I looked to the universities that prided themselves upon their intellectual freedom, and they failed me. I looked to…
- My pacifism is not based on any intellectual theory but on a deep antipathy to every form of cruelty and hatred.
- I have always disliked the fierce competitive spirit embodied in that highly intellectual game.
- To be sure, it is not the fruits of scientific research that elevate a man and enrich his nature, but the urge to understand, the…
- Strenuous intellectual work and the study of God's Nature are the angels that will lead me through all the troubles of this life with consolation,…
- I sometimes ask myself how it came about that I was the one to develop the theory of relativity. The reason, I think, is that…
- The satisfaction of physical needs is indeed the indispensable pre-condition of a satisfactory existence, but in itself it is not enough. In order to be…
- Only the [Catholic] Church stood squarely across the path of Hitler’s campaign for suppressing truth. I never had any special interest in the Church before,…
- I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being.
- Men like Henry George [ the pioneer of land value taxation] are rare, unfortunately. One cannot imagine a more beautiful combination of intellectual keenness, artistic…
- The restriction of knowledge to an elite group destroys the spirit of the society and leads to its intellectual impoverishment.
- I consider it important, indeed urgently necessary, for intellectual workers to get together, both to protect their own economic status and, also, generally speaking, to…
- ... it is a welcome symptom in an age which is commonly denounced as materialistic, that it makes heroes of men whose goals lie wholly…
- Hitler appeared, a man with limited intellectual abilities and unfit for any useful work, bursting with envy and bitterness against all whom circumstance and nature…
- Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.
- Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
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- It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest… — David Attenborough
- The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself. — Noam Chomsky
- And one more idea which may be laughed and sneered at in some supposedly sophisticated circles, but I just have to believe… — Ronald Reagan
- The intellectual quest, though fine as pearl or coral, is not the spiritual search. That spiritual search is on another level. Spiritual… — Rumi
- Every man who expresses an honest thought is a soldier in the army of intellectual liberty. — Robert Green Ingersoll
- The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probable—namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts, the parental… — Charles Darwin
- It's the old idea that the process of evolution is some push in the direction of greater complexity--in particular greater intellectual complexity.… — Steven Pinker
- Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety,… — Sri Aurobindo