Intellectual Quote by Raymond Aron Download Open image “What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.” — Raymond Aron ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Intellectual Optimism
Optimism inspires, energizes, and brings out our best. It points the mind toward possibilities and helps us think creatively past problems. — Price Pritchett Copy Share Image
Optimism is when you're not sure where life is going to take you, so naturally you anticipate the best possible outcome — Hilary Thayer Hamann Copy Share Image
Optimism is the most important human trait, because it allows us to evolve our ideas, to improve our situation, and to hope for a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other. — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
Optimism boosts your energy and focuses your sights on reaching your goals, rather than wallowing in your setbacks. — Denis Waitley Copy Share Image
Whereas in the past optimism had been regarded as rather shallow - because 'oh well, it's just your temperament, you happen to be just… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
If optimism is important, it's because many outcomes are determined by how much of it we bring to the task. It is an important… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Europeans would like to escape from their history, a "great" history written in letters of blood. But others, by the hundreds of millions, are… — Raymond Aron Copy Share Image
Skepticism cannot be revolutionary, even though it speaks the language of revolution. — Raymond Aron Copy Share Image
“In essence, France no longer existed. It existed only in the hatred of the French for one another.” — Raymond Aron Copy Share Image
Despotism has so often been established in the name of liberty that experience should warn us to judge parties by their practices rather than… — Raymond Aron Copy Share Image
The intellectual who no longer feels attached to anything is not satisfied with opinion merely; he wants certainty, he wants a system. The revolution… — Raymond Aron Copy Share Image
Intellectuals cannot tolerate the chance event, the unintelligible: they have a nostalgia for the absolute, for a universally comprehensive scheme. — Raymond Aron Copy Share Image
“The man who no longer expects miraculous changes either from a revolution or from an economic plan is not obliged to resign himself to… — Raymond Aron Copy Share Image
Foreknowledge of the future makes it possible to manipulate both enemies and supporters. — Raymond Aron Copy Share Image
In a way, all sociologists are akin to Marxists because of their inclination to settle everyone's accounts but their own. — Raymond Aron Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Let me tell you that atheism has never painted a masterpiece. Atheism has never dispelled fear. Atheism has never healed a disease; faith in… — John Hagee Copy Share Image
I am convinced that we will never build a democratic state based on rule of law if we do not at the same time… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Today it is the skeptics who are the social conformists, though because of powerful intellectual propaganda they continue to enjoy thinking of themselves as… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Faith is the avenue to salvation. Not intellectual understanding. Not money. Not your works. Just simple faith. How much faith? The faith of a… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
Laughter is one of the great beacons in life because we don't refract it by gunning it through our intellectual prism. What makes us… — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Ideal for the child and society in the best of times, Rudolf Steiner's brilliant process of education is critically needed and profoundly relevant now… — Joseph Chilton Pearce Copy Share Image
It only takes a day to change someone from an anti-intellectual to an intellectual by persuading him that he might be one! — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life,… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
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