Quotes about intellectual
intellectual society credit
Besides the general infusion of wit to heighten civility, the direct splendor of intellectual power is ever welcome in fine society, as the costliest addition to its rule and its credit. Ralph Waldo Emerson
intellectual together glue
It's time that we acknowledge the wisdom women have acquired by managing the chaos of daily life. Women are realists, the glue that holds society together. They bring a reverence to life that's instinctual, not just intellectual. Teresa Heinz
intellectual taste ninety
Ninety percent of the difficulty in your intellectual life would never have happened if you just had better taste. Terence McKenna
intellectual passionate argument
There's nothing so passionate as a vested interest disguised as an intellectual conviction. Sean O'Casey
intellectual might instruments
Everything we know has its origins in questions. Questions, we might say, are the principal intellectual instruments available to human beings. Neil Postman
intellectual perception matter
We are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance. Our intercourse with intellectual nature is necessary; our speculations upon matter are voluntary, and at leisure. Samuel Johnson
intellectual statistics leisure
All intellectual improvement arises from leisure.
intellectual may secular
Everybody has values. Now, you know it may be formed in a secular setting, it may be formed in an intellectual setting, but everybody comes forward with values. Sam Brownback
intellectual disease
Squareness is such a uniquely intellectual disease. Robert M. Pirsig
intellectual socialism communism
Communism and socialism, programs for intellectual control over society ... fascism, a program for the social control of intellect.
intellectual social subjects
Objects are inorganic and biological values; subjects are social and intellectual values.
intellectual purpose intellectual-freedom
We must understand that when a society undermines intellectual freedom for its own purposes it is absolutely morally bad, but when it represses biological freedom for its own purposes it is absolutely morally good.
intellectual fleeting wealth
The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal. Sallust
intellectual battle argument
A crucial contribution to the ideological argument ...it provides a vital part of the intellectual manifesto on which the battle for a better society can be fought Roy Hattersley
intellectual sides actors
There is a lot lacking on the intellectual side and on the values side when being an actor. Natalie Portman
intellectual unions today
The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves, as far as is possible in the society of today, that union between manual and intellectual labor which characterizes the society we are aiming at. Simone Weil
intellectual attention adherence
Intellectual adherence is never owed to anything whatsoever, for it is never in any degree a voluntary thing. Attention alone is voluntary. It alone forms the subject of an obligation.
intellectual subway highways
If there's an intellectual highway, there's also an intellectual subway. Stanley Crouch
intellectual unity perception
There is an intellectual function in us which demands unity, connection and intelligibility from any material, whether of perception or thought, that comes within its grasp; and if, as a result of special circumstances, it is unable to establish a true connection, it does not hesitate to fabricate a false one. Sigmund Freud
intellectual laziness strange
Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness. Robert A. Heinlein
intellectual laziness intellectual-laziness
Faith is intellectual laziness.
intellectual atheism want
The intellectual who no longer feels attached to anything is not satisfied with opinion merely; he wants certainty, he wants a system. The revolution provides him with his opium. Raymond Aron
intellectual paradise topics
It's been mentioned or suggested that Paradise will not be well studied, because it's about this unimportant intellectual topic, which is religion. Toni Morrison
intellectual negative principles
Agnosticism is not properly described as a "negative" creed, nor indeed as a creed of any kind, except in so far as it expresses absolute faith in the validity of a principle which is as much ethical as intellectual. Thomas Huxley
intellectual quality legs
While I'm impressed with the length of those legs, she's not an intellectual giant. Thomas Dolby
intellectual
I'm not an intellectual, I'm just a writer. Vanna Bonta
intellectual guilt culture
There's guilt about our treatment of native peoples in modern intellectual life, and an unwillingness to acknowledge there could be anything good about Western culture. Steven Pinker
intellectual different masters
I love different themes, different venues, different movies. I love to jump about and tackle different subjects. I have no intellectual master plan. Ridley Scott
intellectual needs way
We need modesty not only in the way we dress; we need intellectual modesty. Tariq Ramadan
intellectual different revolution
What I'm advocating is an intellectual revolution - it's a different mindset concerning the ethical benchmarks by which we live.
intellectual exotic urban
Anthropology has always struggled with an intense, fascinated repulsion towards its subject.... [The anthropologist] submits himself to the exotic to confirm his own inner alienation as an urban intellectual. Susan Sontag
intellectual filters would-be
If culture did not filter, it would be inane - as inane as the formless, boundless Internet is on its own. And if we all possessed the boundless knowledge of the Web, we would be idiots! Culture is an instrument for making a hierarchical system of intellectual labor. Umberto Eco
intellectual finance humans
What we now call "finance" is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love. Robert Graves