Intellectual Quotes

1909 Intellectual quotes by 1296 unique authors

What is more absurd and more impious than to attribute the name of Lucifer to the devil, that is, to personified evil. The intellectual Lucifer… — Eliphas Levi
Challenging unfairly subsidized products, fighting counterfeit goods and intellectual property theft and holding countries accountable for an unfair currency regime will help American companies remain… — Virginia Foxx
Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events. — Sallust
Human intellectual progress, such as it has been, results from our long struggle to see things 'as they are,' or in the most universally comprehensible… — Barbara Ehrenreich
In fact, there is clear evidence of black intellectual superiority: in 1984, 92 percent of blacks voted to retire Ronald Reagan, compared to only 36… — Barbara Ehrenreich
Thought breeds thought; children familiar with great thoughts take as naturally to thinking for themselves as the well-nourished body takes to growing; and we must… — Charlotte Mason
Woman's great mission is to train immature, weak and ignorant creatures to obey the laws of God; the physical, the intellectual, the social and the… — Catharine Beecher
Children, by nature, are keen, passionate and curious. What was referred to as laziness is often merely an awakening of sensitivity, a psychological inability to… — Octave Mirbeau
I sometimes try to imagine what would have happened if we’d known the bonobo first and the chimpanzee only later—or not at all. The discussion… — Frans de Waal
The primary problem is not to provide the public with the knowledge of how far it is to the nearest star and what genes are… — Richard Lewontin
There is one great advantage to being an academic economist in France: here, economists are not highly respected in the academic and intellectual world or… — Thomas Piketty
Be not content with the common place in character anymore than with the commonplace in ambition or intellectual attainment. Do not expect that you will… — William Jewett Tucker
The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - taking an intellectual form. — Chauncey Wright
Let's call this then, only half facetiously, a new patristic, in which the intellectual is charged with the task not only to denounce error and… — Michael Hardt
It is easy enough to write and talk about God while remaining comfortable within the contemporary intellectual climate. Even people who would call themselves unbelievers… — Christian Wiman
Science is the greatest creative impulse of our time. It dominates the intellectual scene and forms our lives, not only in the material things which… — Polykarp Kusch
Overprotecting intellectual property is as harmful as underprotecting it. Creativity is impossible without a rich public domain. Nothing today, likely nothing since we tamed fire,… — Alex Kozinski
Nasr combines in his writing audacious intellectual criticism, deep understanding of Islam... and a commitment to the Western-European contributions to the emancipation of the human… — Mohammed Arkoun
Ward Churchill might be more valuable to the opponents of the academic left employed than unemployed. Above all, he can serve as a living window… — Mort Kondracke
Imprisonment in the contemporary is the worst of all intellectual tyrannies. — Weston La Barre
I think we have the wrong notion of commercial and intellectual or artistic film. Because all films are commercial. — Luc Besson
Elegance? It may seem odd to non-scientists, but there is an aesthetic in software as there is in every other area of intellectual endeavour. Truly… — John Naughton
The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block… — Anna Garlin Spencer
Open source is an intellectual-property destroyer, I can't imagine something that could be worse than this for the software business and the intellectual-property business. — Jim Allchin
The symbiotic relationship between reading and writing is a cornerstone of our individual intellectual journey and our educational system. We write as an act of… — Marita Golden

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