History Quote by Thomas Mann

“Close to forty thousand Germans gathered in front of Berlin’s opera house on May 10, 1933, as a parade of swastika-wearing students and beer-hall…

— Walter Isaacson

Is there intellectual life in America? At present, the answer is no.

— Camille Paglia

What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

And what, then, is belief? It is the demi-cadence which closes a musical phrase in the symphony of our intellectual life.

— Charles Sanders Peirce

Few of us have been so exceptionally unfortunate as not to find, in our own age, some experienced friend who has helped us by…

— Philip Gilbert Hamerton

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character; it becomes lack of power to act with courage proportionate to danger. All this must lead to…

— Albert Einstein

The truth is that personality inevitably bleeds into all forms of our intellectual life. We all extrapolate from our own lives in order to…

— Siri Hustvedt

Intellectual life requires for its expansion and manifestation the influences and assimilation of the interests and affections of others.

— Jane Addams

The liberal professions, and in a wider sense the well-to-do classes, are certainly those with the liveliest taste for knowledge and the most active…

— Emile Durkheim

The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.

— Pat Conroy

“Let your mind become a lens, thanks to the converging rays of attention; let your soul be all intent on whatever it is that…

— Cal Newport

Consistency in opinion is the slow poison of intellectual life, the destroyer of its vividness and energy.

— Humphry Davy