Intellectually Quotes
281 quotes by 253 authors
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My belief is that if you grapple with the big changes until you really get them and if you develop an internal compass to steer…
— James Murdoch
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Nothing enrages me more than when people criticize my criticism of school by telling me that schools are not just places to learn maths and…
— Seymour Papert
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In my mind, the purpose of education is to enable human beings to develop to their full potential, intellectually and spiritually. That means that students…
— Michael N. Nagler
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I think schools generally do an effective and terribly damaging job of teaching children to be infantile, dependent, intellectually dishonest, passive and disrespectful to their…
— Seymour Papert
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Poetry is, above all, an approach to the truth of feeling . . .. A fine poem will seize your imagination intellectually-that is, when you…
— Muriel Rukeyser
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The immense majority of intellectually eminent men disbelieve in the Christian religion, but they conceal the fact in public, because they are afraid of losing…
— Bertrand Russell
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My practise as a scientist is atheistic. That is to say, when I set up an experiment I assume that no god, angel, or devil…
— John B. S. Haldane
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I try to figure out - intellectually, philosophically, psychologically - what the experience of beauty is.
— Denis Dutton
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Hunters and trackers learn not only to understand intellectually a bunch of facts about the animal they follow, but to feel their way into the…
— Iain McGilchrist
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I thought about cricket a lot. I needed to get out of this bubble of mine. I found it in books and conversations with other…
— Rahul Dravid
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A people morally and intellectually equal to self-government must also be equal in self-defence.
— Jefferson Davis
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The success of the suffrage movement would injure women spiritually and intellectually, for they would be assuming a burden though they knew themselves unable to…
— John Boyle O'Reilly
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Fear and euphoria are dominant forces, and fear is many multiples the size of euphoria. Bubbles go up very slowly as euphoria builds. Then fear…
— Alan Greenspan
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I am devoted to my husband and son. I am devoted to the practices and rituals that imbue our lives with a sense of meaning…
— Dani Shapiro
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Being at the top of your game intellectually, philosophically, politically, is not a forever thing.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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For those who struggle with anti-pagan prejudices and stereotypes, Humanist Paganism might be a powerful educational tool. It can show that a pagan can be…
— Brendan Myers
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I respect those who openly advocate for unlimited immigration to the United States. Open borders is an intellectually coherent, defensible position.
— Jan C. Ting
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The real problem with natural selection is that it makes no intuitive sense. It is like quantum physics; we may intellectually grasp it, but it…
— Paul Bloom
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No doubt, corporate CEOs who lie to their shareholders and politicians who lie to their public know and believe intellectually that lying is immoral. Why…
— Lewis B. Smedes
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The public schools I attended were dominated by athletics and rarely inspiring intellectually, but I enjoyed a small circle of interesting friends despite my ineptitude…
— Harold E. Varmus
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