Intellectual Quotes

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Sublime in the highest style of intellectual beauty, intellect without effort, without suffering... not a feature is correct – but the whole effect is more… — Florence Nightingale
I suspect that most of the individuals who have religious faith are content with blind faith. They feel no obligation to understand what they believe.… — Mortimer Adler
Intellectual understanding blocks empathy. — Marshall B. Rosenberg
True myths may serve for thousands of years as an inexhaustible source of intellectual speculation, religious joy, ethical inquiry, and artistic renewal. The real mystery… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Intellectual comradeship requires that you think your thoughts through to the place where you can make the complex seem simple, the obscure quite clear. — David Seabury
The Chicago Economics Department was in intellectual ferment, although the central issues of the 1930s were very different from those in later times. I had… — George Stigler
What man or woman of common sense now doubts the intellectual capacity of colored people? Who does not know, that with all our efforts as… — Angelina Grimke
Shakespeare was an intellectual ocean, whose waves touched all the shores of thought; within which were all the tides and waves of destiny and will;… — Robert Green Ingersoll
I believe in the religion of reason -- the gospel of this world; in the development of the mind, in the accumulation of intellectual wealth,… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Cynicism is intellectual dandyism. — George Meredith
Therefore, when a person refuses to come to Christ it is never just because of a lack of evidence or because of intellectual difficulties: at… — William Lane Craig
What if Jesus' secret message reveals a secret plan?”. What if he didn't come to start a new religion-but rather came to start a political,… — Brian D. McLaren
Sport, properly directed, develops character, makes a man courageous, a generous loser, and a gracious victor; it refines the senses, gives intellectual penetration, and steels… — Pope Pius XII
My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his intellectual freedom — Franz Boas
Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance — Clifford Geertz
The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. So long as men are not trained to… — Bertrand Russell
The TV licence people just can't believe we don't have a television. I'm a bolshie git. I shout at them things like, 'I don't need… — Julian Cope
If a large city can, after intense intellectual efforts, choose for its mayor a man who merely will not steal from it, we consider it… — Frank Moore Colby
I desire to assist in attracting to this profession young men of character and ability, also to help those already engaged in the profession to… — Joseph Pulitzer
We live in a historical period characterized by a sharp discrepancy between the intellectual development of man... and his mental-emotional development, which has left him… — Christopher Lasch
The practice of celibacy alone was opening me up to a deeper sense of the way the mind-body connection works. I saw over and over… — Noah Levine
Just as characteristic, perhaps, is the intellectual interdependence created through the development of the modern media of communication: post, telegraph, telephone, and popular press. — Christian Lous Lange
Modern techniques have torn down state frontiers, both economical and intellectual. The growth of means of transport has created a world market and an opportunity… — Christian Lous Lange
Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise. "Necessity is the mother of invention" is a silly proverb. "Necessity is… — Alfred North Whitehead
Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last; and perhaps always predominates in proportion to the strength of the contemplative… — Samuel Johnson

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