Intellectual Quotes

1909 Intellectual quotes by 1296 unique authors

To win in the game of life, we all need both a healthy mind and body. By involving children in the fun and dynamic fitness… — Digger Phelps
Men are not narrow in their intellectual interests by nature; it takes special and rigorous training to accomplish that end. — Unknown Author
Punk rock really came out of N.Y. as a philosophy before the groups were ever recorded. I had a kind-of intellectual interest in the idea… — Greg Ginn
One of the things that characterizes good intellectual work is a certain self-importance — Whitfield Diffie
If you have insight, you use your inner eye, your inner ear, to pierce to the heart of things, and have no need of intellectual… — Zhuangzi
Each of the essays in this volume ranges widely across technical and philosophical domains. They examine both familiar automatons from throughout history and delight us… — Rodney Brooks
My wish is to help design the future of learning by supporting children all over the world to tap into their innate sense of wonder… — Sugata Mitra
Collective Intelligence (CI) is the capacity of human collectives to engage in intellectual cooperation in order to create, innovate, and invent. — Unknown Author
The truth is that most people lack the intellectual ability and courage to resist a popular movement, however pernicious and ill-considered. — Ludwig von Mises
There is a fundamental law that the tissue of the human body will waste away through idleness and disuse. Conversely, muscles and vessel that are… — Unknown Author
The manner in which one single ray of light, one single precious hint, will clarify and energize the whole mental life of him who receives… — Arnold Bennett
Mathematics is persistent intellectual honesty. — Unknown Author
Numbers are intellectual witnesses that belong only to mankind. — Honore de Balzac
...our intellectual powers are rather geared to master static relations and that our powers to visualize processes evolving in time are relatively poorly developed. For… — Edsger Dijkstra
Text is linear; it is black and white; it doesn't zoom around the page in 3-D; it isn't intelligent by itself; in fact, in terms… — Unknown Author
...One of the most important lessons, perhaps, is the fact that SOFTWARE IS HARD. From now on I shall have significantly greater respect for every… — Donald Knuth
There is a race between the increasing complexity of the systems we build and our ability to develop intellectual tools for understanding their complexity. If… — Leslie Lamport
My basic idea is that programming is the most powerful medium of developing the sophisticated and rigorous thinking needed for mathematics, for grammar, for physics,… — Seymour Papert
Intellectual knowledge exists in and of the brain. Because the brain is part of the body, which must one day expire, this collection of facts,… — Laozi
The body of economic knowledge is an essential element in the structure of human civilization; it is the foundation upon which modern industrialism and all… — Ludwig von Mises
By activating an expansive, tolerant, and creative mindset, positive feelings maximize the social, intellectual, and physical benefits that will accrue. — Martin Seligman
Anyone who claims to be intrigued by the "intellectual challenge of the markets" is not a trader. The markets are as intellectually challenging as a… — Unknown Author
The sense of ultimate truth is the intellectual counterpart of the esthetic sense of perfect beauty, or the moral sense of perfect good. — George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
Production is not something physical, material, and external; it is a spiritual and intellectual phenomenon. — Ludwig von Mises
Skepticism . . . is not intellectual only it is moral also, a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul. — Thomas Carlyle

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