Intellectual Quotes

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In certain pious people I have found a hatred of reason, and have been favourably disposed to them for it: their bad intellectual conscience was… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The influence of prayer on the human mind and body is as demonstrable as that of secreting glands. Its results can be measured in terms… — Alexis Carrel
Research suggests that exposure to the natural world - including nearby nature in cities - helps improve human health, well-being, and intellectual capacity in ways… — Richard Louv
It is time for us to take off our masks, to step out from behind our personas - whatever they might be: educators, activists, biologists,… — Terry Tempest Williams
Beware the artist who's an intellectual also. The artist who doesn't fit. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
When intellectual leaders fail to foster the best in the mixed, unformed, vacillating character of people at large, the thugs are sure to bring out… — Ayn Rand
Natural rights are those which always appertain to man in right of his existence. Of this kind are all the intellectual rights, or rights of… — Thomas Paine
Just as there is no such thing as a collective or racial mind, so there is no such thing as a collective or racial achievement.… — Ayn Rand
Secular writers can tell a story about the physical, the emotional, and the intellectual parts of a character. But no matter how well they tell… — Karen Kingsbury
A culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men. — Ayn Rand
Leftism hides under an intellectual veneer, but underneath it is all emotion — Dennis Prager
My great project is to undo the moral and intellectual damage of most universities — Dennis Prager
Play reaches the habits most needed for intellectual growth. — Bruno Bettelheim
God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than of any other slackers. If you are thinking of becoming a Christian, I warn you you are… — C.S. Lewis
Moderation, the Golden Mean, the Aristonmetron, is the secret of wisdom and of happiness. But it does not mean embracing an unadventurous mediocrity; rather it… — Robertson Davies
There was a time when conservative intellectuals raised the level of American public debate and helped to keep it sober. Those days are gone. As… — Mark Lilla
The intellect searches out the Absolute order of things as they stand in the mind of God, and without the colors of affection. The intellectual… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The intellectual and moral satisfaction that I failed to gain from the utilitarianism of Bentham and Mill, the revolutionary methods of Marx and Lenin, the… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I began demonstrating against serious culture. In hindsight, the actual course of events has been very humiliating for me, because no one picked up on… — Henry Flynt
Thus the State never intentionally confronts a man's sense, intellectual or moral, but only his body, his senses. It is not armed with superior wit… — Henry David Thoreau
Random search for data on ... off-chance is hardly scientific. A questionnaire on 'Intellectual Immoralities' was circulated by a well-known institution. 'Intellectual Immorality No. 4'… — Hans Selye
Don't blame me for the fact that competent programming, as I view it as an intellectual possibility, will be too difficult for the average programmer,… — Edsger Dijkstra
Let an ultraintelligent machine be defined as a machine that can far surpass all the intellectual activities of any man however clever. Since the design… — I. J. Good
Everything we know has its origins in questions. Questions, we might say, are the principal intellectual instruments available to human beings. — Neil Postman
All great work artistic, poetic, intellectual or spiritual is produced at those moments when creators forget themselves altogether and are free from self-consciousness. — Walpola Rahula

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