Our Intellectual Quotes

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I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional atheist whose fervor is mostly due to a painful act of liberation from the fetters… — Albert Einstein
One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute. — William Lyon Phelps
The education of my brother and myself was of paramount importance to my parents, and in addition to their strong encouragement, they were prepared to… — Jerome Isaac Friedman
The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer. Indeed the measure of our intellectual maturity, one philosopher… — Gordon Allport
No important change in ethics was ever accomplished without an internal chage in our intellectual emphasis, loyalties, affections, and convictions. — Aldo Leopold
The role of the federal government is to protect our liberties. That means they should protect our religious liberties to do what we want; our… — Ron Paul
The simple sense of wonder at the shapes of things, and at their exuberant independence of our intellectual standards and our trivial definitions, is the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Healing requires far more of us than just the participation of our intellectual and even our emotional resources. And it certainly demands that we do… — Caroline Myss
Our lives are complex; our emotions are complex; our intellectual desires are complex. I believe that architecture â€¦ needs to mirror that complexity in every… — Daniel Libeskind
It's not going to happen through technology or our intellectual abilities but only through prayer. When we pray, God works. We believe God blesses churches… — David Jeremiah
The measure of our intellectual capacity is the capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better and better problems. — C. West Churchman
My mother, who was professional schoolteacher, was particularly concerned about our formal education and even went so far as to start a private school together… — Robert B. Laughlin
But in many orders of beauty, particularly those of the finer arts, it is requisite to employ much reasoning, in order to feel the proper… — David Hume
...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
I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being. — Albert Einstein
For each of us there is a set limit to our intellectual powers which we cannot pass. — Rene Descartes
You know, sometimes I don't understand what's wrong with us. This is just about the most creative and imaginative country on earthâ€”and yet sometimes we… — Boris Johnson
So, ultimately, in order to understand nature it may be necessary to have a deeper understanding of mathematical relationships. But the real reason is that… — Richard P. Feynman
English is such a deliciously complex and undisciplined language, we can bend, fuse, distort words to all our purposes. We give old words new meanings,… — Willard Gaylin
Fiction seems to be more effective at changing beliefs than nonfiction, which is designed to persuade through argument and evidence. Studies show that when we… — Jonathan Gottschall

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