Intellectual Quotes

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It is perhaps the most characteristic feature of the intellectual that he judges new ideas not by their specific merits but by the readiness with… — Friedrich August von Hayek
Comedy keeps the heart sweet; but we all know that there is wholesome refreshment for both mind and heart in an occasional climb among the… — Mark Twain
Embedded in every technology there is a powerful idea, sometimes two or three powerful ideas. Like language itself, a technology predisposes us to favor and… — Neil Postman
If the minds of women were enlightened and improved, the domestic work would be more frequently refreshed by intelligent conversation, a means of edification now… — Sarah Moore Grimke
The admission fee was a viper's tongue and a half-concealed stiletto. It was a sort of intellectual slaughterhouse. — Groucho Marx
We do not assert that the capitalist mode of economic calculation guarantees the absolutely best solution of the allocation of factors of production. Such absolutely… — Ludwig von Mises
It doesn't dawn on this depraved bourgeois world that this is positively a sin against all reason; that it is criminal lunacy to keep on… — Adolf Hitler
The simple sense of wonder at the shapes of things, and at their exuberant independence of our intellectual standards and our trivial definitions, is the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
If the outer world is diminished in its grandeur, then the emotional, imaginative, intellectual, and spiritual life of the human is diminished or extinguished. Without… — Thomas Berry
I do not mean to be the slightest bit critical of TV newspeople, who do a superb job, considering that they operate under severe time… — Dave Barry
Mad; adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; not conforming to standards of thought, speech, and action derived by the conformants from study… — Ambrose Bierce
Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or intellectual… — Susan Sontag
Healing requires far more of us than just the participation of our intellectual and even our emotional resources. And it certainly demands that we do… — Caroline Myss
The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information,… — Robert Reich
RELIGION: A set of beliefs held as dogmas, dominating the conduct of life, going beyond or contrary to evidence, and inculcated by methods which are… — Bertrand Russell
[R]ights do not belong to men simply as men, but because of the superior qualities, physical, intellectual, moral or political, which are characteristic of certain… — Charles Edward Merriam
The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, and the pageant marches at… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Skepticism, as I said, is not intellectual only; it is moral also; a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul. A man lives by… — Thomas Carlyle
I was taught that the world had a lot of problems; that I could struggle and change them; that intellectual and material gifts brought the… — Marian Wright Edelman
Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love. — Roland Allen

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