Activity Quote by Joseph Goebbels

Science contributes to our culture in many ways, as a creative intellectual activity in its own right, as the light which has served to…

— John F. Kennedy

During periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights which give…

— Fritjof Capra

The intellect searches out the Absolute order of things as they stand in the mind of God, and without the colors of affection. The…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Since the Greeks the predominant attitude of thinkers towards intellectual activity was to glorify it insofar as (like aesthetic activity) it finds its satisfaction…

— Julien Benda

The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and…

— Walter Pater

Intellectual activity is perhaps the greatest pleasure of life; chess is one of the forms of intellectual activity.

— Siegbert Tarrasch

When mental development is under discussion, there are many who say, 'How does movement come into it? We are talking about the mind.' And…

— Maria Montessori

Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a…

— Jacques Barzun

The stricter standards and independent, often conclusive, evidence in the physical sciences cannot be generalized to intellectual activity as a whole, even though the…

— Thomas Sowell

...when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases.

— Robert Anton Wilson

As a community organizer who holds a degree in history, I understand the fascination with history. However, there is a tendency for many of…

— Opal Tometi

“Intellectual activity in a culture is not a one-way flow between the great minds and passive recipients; it is a discourse, a complex marketplace-like…

— Gordon S. Wood