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Image of Edward Gibbon
In a distant age and climate, the tragic scene of the death of Hosein will awaken the sympathy of the coldest reader.
- Edward Gibbon
Collection: Intellectual
Image of Jose Ortega y Gasset
Commonplaces are the tramways of intellectual transportation.
- Jose Ortega y Gasset
Collection: Intellectual
Image of Erich Fromm
The fact is that the culture does not have only positive effects on our intellectual and moral functions but also negative effects.
- Erich Fromm
Collection: Intellectual
Image of Stephen Jay Gould
Fundamentalism is rigorously and systematically used to indoctrinate and subjugate young minds. It is a contraceptive designed to prevent intellectual fertilization.
- Stephen Jay Gould
Collection: Intellectual
Image of Sigmund Freud
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
Collection: Intellectual
Image of James Anthony Froude
Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties.
- James Anthony Froude
Collection: Intellectual
Image of Mahatma Gandhi
I learnt from Hussein how to achieve victory while being oppressed.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Collection: Intellectual
Image of Matthew Arnold
And amongst us one, Who most has suffer'd, takes dejectedly His seat upon the intellectual throne.
- Matthew Arnold
Collection: Intellectual
Image of Saint Augustine
It is He who gave to this intellectual nature free-will of such a kind, that if he wishes to forsake God his blessedness, misery should forthwith result.
- Saint Augustine
Collection: Intellectual
Image of Mehmet Murat Ildan
Thank God I am not an intellectual! What a garbage of knowledge, what an unnecessary glossary of terms they have, those intellectuals!
- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Collection: Intellectual
Image of Robert A. Heinlein
Faith is intellectual laziness.
- Robert A. Heinlein
Collection: Intellectual
Image of Adolf Hitler
All propaganda must be popular and its intellectual level must be adjusted to the most limited intelligence among those it is addressed to.
- Adolf Hitler
Collection: Intellectual
Image of Robert A. Heinlein
Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness.
- Robert A. Heinlein
Collection: Intellectual
Image of Werner Herzog
Someone like Jean-Luc Godard is for me intellectual counterfeit money when compared to a good kung fu film.
- Werner Herzog
Collection: Intellectual
Image of Vaclav Havel
There can be no doubt that distrust of words is less harmful than unwarranted trust in them. Besides, to distrust words, and indict them for the horrors that might slumber unobtrusively within them - isn’t this, after all, the true vocation of the intellectual?
- Vaclav Havel
Collection: Intellectual
Image of Ben Hecht
There is nothing as dull as an intellectual ally after a certain age.
- Ben Hecht
Collection: Intellectual
Image of Frank Herbert
Many things we do naturally become difficult only when we try to make them intellectual subjects. It is possible to know so much about a subject that you become totally ignorant.
- Frank Herbert
Collection: Intellectual
Image of Eric Hoffer
Nothing so offends the doctrinaire intellectual as our ability to achieve the momentous in a matter-of-fact way, unblessed by words.
- Eric Hoffer
Collection: Intellectual
Image of Robert Green Ingersoll
The history of intellectual progress is written in the lives of infidels.
- Robert Green Ingersoll
Collection: Intellectual
Image of Carl Jung
Only a few individuals succeed in throwing off mythology in a time of a certain intellectual supremacy--the mass never frees itself.
- Carl Jung
Collection: Intellectual
Image of Samuel Johnson
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
Collection: Intellectual
Image of John Keats
Nothing is finer for the purposes of great productions than a very gradual ripening of the intellectual powers.
- John Keats
Collection: Intellectual
Image of Meher Baba
To ask for a purely intellectual proof of the existence of God is like asking for the privilege of being able to see with your ears!
- Meher Baba
Collection: Intellectual
Image of Jane Jacobs
To seek "causes" of poverty in this way is to enter an intellectual dead end because poverty has no causes. Only prosperity has causes.
- Jane Jacobs
Collection: Intellectual
Image of Thomas Huxley
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
Collection: Intellectual
Image of John Irving
I'm old-fashioned, a storyteller. I'm not an analyst and I'm not an intellectual.
- John Irving
Collection: Intellectual
Image of Robert Green Ingersoll
If there is one subject in this world worthy of being discussed, worthy of being understood, it is the question of intellectual liberty. Without that, we are simply painted clay.
- Robert Green Ingersoll
Collection: Intellectual
Image of Steve Jobs
This revolution, the information revolution, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy.
- Steve Jobs
Collection: Intellectual
Image of Rush Limbaugh
The left has so corrupted everything it's touched. Even its highest ranking intellectual members are loony.
- Rush Limbaugh
Collection: Intellectual
Image of Hosea Ballou
It is the nature of intellect to strive to improve in intellectual power.
- Hosea Ballou
Collection: Intellectual
Image of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Liberalism provided me with an intellectual satisfaction that I never found in fundamentalism. I became so enamored of the insights of liberalism that I almost fell into the trap of accepting uncritically everything it encompassed.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Collection: Intellectual
Image of Henry A. Kissinger
Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
- Henry A. Kissinger
Collection: Intellectual
Image of C. S. Lewis
When you go to church you are really listening-in to the secret wireless from out friends: that is why the enemy is so anxious to prevent us from going. He does it by playing on our conceit and laziness and intellectual snobbery.
- C. S. Lewis
Collection: Intellectual
Image of Edwin Land
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
Collection: Intellectual
Image of Allen W. Wood
The species of anti-Enlightenment religion we find among evangelical protestants is far more impoverished, anti-intellectual and downright wretched.
- Allen W. Wood
Collection: Intellectual
Image of C. S. Lewis
God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than He is of any other slacker.
- C. S. Lewis
Collection: Intellectual
Image of Thomas B. Macaulay
To be a really good historian is perhaps the rarest of intellectual distinctions.
- Thomas B. Macaulay
Collection: Intellectual
Image of Groucho Marx
The admission fee was a viper's tongue and a half-concealed stiletto. It was a sort of intellectual slaughterhouse.
- Groucho Marx
Collection: Intellectual
Image of Karl Marx
All our inventions have endowed material forces with intellectual life, and degraded human life into a material force.
- Karl Marx
Collection: Intellectual
Image of Terence McKenna
Ninety percent of the difficulty in your intellectual life would never have happened if you just had better taste.
- Terence McKenna
Collection: Intellectual