Character Quote by L. P. Jacks

In any given society the authority of man over man runs in inverse proportion to the intellectual development of that society.

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Sports and entertainment are the only places where inner-city kids see themselves being able to succeed. Their intellectual development is something they don't relate…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

The most powerful influence exercised by the Arabs on general natural physics was that directed to the advances of chemistry ; a science for…

— Alexander von Humboldt

In certain circumstances where he experiments in new types of conduct by cooperating with his equals, the child is already an adult. There is…

— Jean Piaget

There is one lesson from the past, in particular, that we cannot afford to ignore: You cannot make progress on gender equality or broader…

— Hillary Clinton

“Out of all its squalor and human decay, its eruptions of butchery, India produced so many people of grace and beauty, ruled by elaborate…

— Anonymous

Human development, not secularization, is what's key to women's empowerment in the transforming Middle East.

— Dalia Mogahed

When human beings are scared and feel everything is exposed to the government, we will censor ourselves from free thinking. That's dangerous for human…

— Ai Weiwei

Citizens across the United States are now uniting in a great cause to establish a Department of Peace, seeking nothing less than the transformation…

— Dennis Kucinich

“Without curiosity, we are unable to sustain our attention, we avoid risks, we abort challenging tasks, we compromise our intellectual development, we fail to…

— Todd Kashdan

We live in a historical period characterized by a sharp discrepancy between the intellectual development of man... and his mental-emotional development, which has left…

— Christopher Lasch

Tennis doesn't encourage any kind of intellectual development.

— Jim Courier