Intellectual Quotes

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Thomas Sowell is America's foremost public intellectual and for good reason. His work covers almost every subject imaginable- race, economics, Marxism, ethnic groups, immigration patterns,… — Fred Barnes
I say that I represent this movement because my intellectual allegiances are clearly European, not African. — J M Coetzee
In academic life, false ideas are merely false and useless ones can be fun to play with. In political life, false ideas can ruin the… — Michael Ignatieff
... the woman who grows up with the idea that she is simply to be an amiable animal, to be caressed and coaxed, is invariably… — Charles Dickens
Every mind has a horizon in respect to its present intellectual capacity but not in respect to its future intellectual capacity. — Gottfried Leibniz
Leibniz endeavored to provide an account of inference and judgment involving the mechanical play of symbols and very little else. The checklists that result are… — David Berlinski
Of all the intellectual hurdles which the human mind has confronted and has overcome in the last fifteen hundred years the one which seems to… — Herbert Butterfield
Can a woman become a genius of the first class? Nobody can know unless women in general shall have equal opportunity with men in education,… — Anna Garlin Spencer
I wouldn't describe that "position" as "parasitic." I'd describe that experience as "edifying." I don't merely write from a critical intellectual distance. I actually live… — Bruce Sterling
The moral and intellectual character of the Africans is widely different in different nations. — Samuel George Morton
In disposition the Negro is joyous, flexible, and indolent; while the many nations which compose this race present a singular diversity of intellectual character, of… — Samuel George Morton
Our educational system is appallingly poor right now. Yet, somehow we're turning out some of the most intellectual and powerful sophisticated minds in the world.… — Malcolm Wallop
I try to keep a balance between conceptional or intellectual comprehension and emotional understanding. — Unknown Author
The core of a scientific lifestyle is to change your mind when faced with information that disagrees with your views, avoiding intellectual inertia, yet many… — Max Tegmark
What is "this drive"? It's the tendency to not simply accept things as they are but to want to think about them, to understand them.… — Aaron Swartz
There's nothing situate under heaven's eye But hath his bond in earth, in sea, in sky. The beasts, the fishes, and the winged fowls Are… — William Shakespeare
Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are… — Oscar Wilde
Theorists tend to peak at an early age; the creative juices tend to gush very early and start drying up past the age of fifteen-or… — Leon M. Lederman
[The scientist] believes passionately in facts, in measured facts. He believes there are no bad facts, that all facts are good facts, though they may… — Robert Watson-Watt
The method I take to do this is not yet very usual; for instead of using only comparative and superlative Words, and intellectual Arguments, I… — William Petty
I will not pretend to justify this espionage I carried on, and I will say openly that all these signs of a life full of… — Hermann Hesse
...the sounds next door served as a kind of trip wire: I seemed to stumble and fall on my face, skinning and bruising myself here… — John Cheever
No vital Christianity is possible unless at least three aspects of it are developed. These are the inner life of devotion, the outer life of… — D. Elton Trueblood
Moral cowardice and intellectual corruption are the natural concomitants of unchallenged privilege. — Noam Chomsky
Many studies have established the fact that there is a high correlation between vocabulary and intelligence and that the ability to increase one's vocabulary throughout… — Bergen Evans

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