Own Intellectual Quotes
11 quotes by 11 authors
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Precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity as to those mysterious powers assumed by others.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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In using terms like patriarchy, hermeneutics, and sexual/textual, I do not wish to misrepresent the Qurn as a feminist text; rather, the use of such…
— Asma Barlas
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The business of both parent and teacher is to enable and to help the child to educate himself, to develop his own intellectual, moral, aesthetic…
— Sri Aurobindo
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Each of the essays in this volume ranges widely across technical and philosophical domains. They examine both familiar automatons from throughout history and delight us…
— Rodney Brooks
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O God, teach me to be satisfied with my own helplessness in the spiritual life. Teach me to be content with Your grace that comes…
— Thomas Merton
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Actually, I've never thought myself as being a particularly hard worker. I've always worked, and I guess my mind is busy all the time. I've…
— Sam Wyly
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Darwin was not afraid to look deeply into the void. His bold view can be seen as either noble and pessimistic or noble and admirable.…
— Primo Levi
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I am unaware of his plans but I shall never stop believing in them because I cannot fathom them and I prefer to mistrust my…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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There was something terribly enthralling in the exercise of influence. No other activity was like it. To project one's soul into some gracious form, and…
— Oscar Wilde
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A lot of Christian extremism has done a great deal to discredit religion; the main religious traditions have abandoned their own intellectual cultures so drastically…
— Marilynne Robinson
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No matter what kind of advice and prompting you receive from parents, teachers, advisors, and peers, if you honestly listen to your own intellectual instincts…
— Melchor Lim
Who Wrote These Own Intellectual Quotes
11 authors contributed a total of 11 Own Intellectual Quotes as follows: