Quotes about intellectual
intellectual atheism matter
It is the inevitable effect of religion on public policy that makes it a matter of public concern. Advocates of religiosity extol the virtues or moral habits that religion is supposed to instill in us. But we should be equally concerned with the intellectual habits it discourages.
intellectual pessimist conviction
I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist. William Golding
intellectual distinction historian
To be a really good historian is perhaps the rarest of intellectual distinctions. Thomas B. Macaulay
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 information revolution
This revolution, the information revolution, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy. Steve Jobs
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
I'm not an intellectual, I'm just a writer. Vanna Bonta
intellectual auras nobel
This ceremony and the intellectual aura associated with the Nobel Prizes have grown from the wisdom of a practical chemist who wrote a remarkable will. Stanford Moore
intellectual sides actors
There is a lot lacking on the intellectual side and on the values side when being an actor. Natalie Portman
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 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 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 intense cricketers
I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual. Rahul Dravid
intellectual logic faith-in-god
Faith in God goes beyond intellectual presentation and logic. Radhanath Swami
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 composer
I'm not an intellectual composer. Les Baxter
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 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 vision would-be
A great thing would be done if all these God-visions could embrace and cast themselves into each other; but intellectual dogma and cult egoism stand in the way. Sri Aurobindo
intellectual tragedy values
It is a part of the intellectual's tragedy that the things he most values about himself and his work are quite unlike those society values in him... Richard Hofstadter
intellectual disease
Squareness is such a uniquely intellectual disease. Robert M. Pirsig