Atheist Quote by Robert Anton Wilson

The Idea enters the brain from the outside. It rearranges the furniture to make it more to its liking. It finds other Ideas already…

— Bernard Beckett

If superstition enters, the brain is gone.

— Swami Vivekananda

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

Intellectual activity is a danger to the building of character.

— Joseph Goebbels

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

Khalif (Caliph) Al-Ma'mun's period of rule (813 - 833 C.E.) may be considered the 'golden age' of science and learning. He had always been…

— John Bagot Glubb

There are branches of learning and education which we must study merely with a view to leisure spent in intellectual activity, and these are…

— Aristotle