Intellectual Quotes

1909 Intellectual quotes by 1296 unique authors

How important is a constant intercourse with nature and the contemplation of natural phenomena to the preservation of moral and intellectual health! — Henry David Thoreau
Rage is a sign of nothing but immaturity. The power of any faith comes not from its coercion of critics and dissenters. It comes from… — Mustafa Akyol
. . . until the curtain was rung down on the last act of the drama (and it might have no last act!) he wished… — George Santayana
A government at bottom is nothing more than a group of men, and as a practical matter most of them are inferior men. ... Yet… — H. L. Mencken
Although I was not aware of it at the time, the experience of growing up during the Great Depression was to have a profound impact… — Lawrence Klein
The Christian's life in all its aspects-intellectual and ethical, devotional and relational, upsurging in worship and outgoing in witness-is supernatural; only the Spirit can initiate… — J I Packer
If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay - in solid cash - the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us… — Aldous Huxley
The Greek in me wanted to know what it felt like to pull an oar. The intellectual wondered about how to get eight individuals to… — Barry S. Strauss
If this really is true, then greed really isn't good, after all. It really isn't the way to maximize the best possible outcome. We really… — Naomi Klein
With our present knowledge, we can respond to the challenge of stellar space flight solely with intellectual concepts and purely hypothetical analysis. Hardware solutions are… — Wernher von Braun
Obama entered the presidency trailing clouds of intellectual self-regard. His carefully cultivated persona was of a uniquely thoughtful, judicious, deliberative, evidence-driven man comfortable with complexity.… — George Will
They're now turning those seeds into intellectual property, so they have a virtual lock on the seeds upon which we all depend for our food… — Jeremy Rifkin
ALL ART, OF COURSE, IS INTELLECTUAL, BUT FOR ME, ALL THE ARTS, AND CINEMA EVEN MORE SO, MUST ABOVE ALL BE EMOTIONAL AND ACT UPON… — Andrei Tarkovsky
My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
There's a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics, especially within the sphere of the arts and… — Harold Pinter
Scepticism is never certain of itself, being less a firm intellectual position than a pose to justify bad behavior. — Fulton J. Sheen
But the lack of faith could just as well be a crutch for non-believers, allowing them to live their lives without any concept of accountability… — Michael Coren
Christianity also stands in opposition to intellectual, as well as physical, health. To doubt becomes sin. 'Faith means not wanting to know what it true'… — Robert Sheaffer
Science, not religion, has taught me my most useful values, among them intellectual honesty. It is better to go without answers than to accept those… — B.F. Skinner
Education can and should do much influence social, moral and intellectual discovery by stimulating critical attitudes of thought in the young — George Bernard Shaw
In late modernity we grow more and more accustomed to politicians and public figures who are indebted to their appetites for their "values," to their… — Kenny Smith
Rather than seek to be squired and dated by their rivals why should it not be possible for women to find relaxation and pleasure in… — Germaine Greer
Labeling a child's mind as diseased-whether with autism, intellectual disabilities, or transgenderism-may reflect the discomfort that mind gives parents more than any discomfort it causes… — Andrew Solomon
Nothing tends so much to the advancement of knowledge as the application of a new instrument. The native intellectual powers of men in different times… — Humphry Davy
My dear Miss Glory, Robots are not people. They are mechanically more perfect than we are, they have an astounding intellectual capacity, but they have… — Karel Capek

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