Intellect Quotes - Page 6

Every piece of the puzzle that doesn't fit gets you closer to the answer.

Anxiety is the essential condition of intellectual and artistic creation and everything that is finest in human history.

I always used to put my right boot on first, and then obviously my right sock.

The true Enlightenment thinker, the true rationalist, never wants to talk anyone into anything. No, he does not even want to convince; all the time he is aware that he may be wrong. Above all, he values the intellectual independence of others too highly to want to convince them in important matters. He would much rather invite contradiction, preferably in the form of rational and disciplined criticism. He seeks not to convince but to arouse - to challenge others to form free opinions.

You'll have a lot more respect for a bird after you try making a nest.

It is not the most intellectual of the species that survives; it is not the strongest that survives; but the species that survives is the one that is able best to adapt and adjust to the changing environment in which it finds itself.

There is nothing anti-intellectual in the leap of faith, for faith is not believing without proof but trusting without reservation.

Moral cowardice and intellectual corruption are the natural concomitants of unchallenged privilege.

I suspect that most of the individuals who have religious faith are content with blind faith. They feel no obligation to understand what they believe. They may even wish not to have their beliefs disturbed by thought.

Pedagogy is not about training, it is about critically educating people to be self reflective, capable of critically address their relationship with others and with the larger world. Pedagogy in this sense provides not only important critical and intellectual competencies; it also enables people to intervene critically in the world.

Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love.

The Library is an open sanctuary. It is devoted to individual intellectual inquiry and contemplation. Its function is to provide free access to ideas and information. It is a haven of privacy, a source of both cultural and intellectual sustenance for the individual reader. Since it is thus committed to free and open inquiry on a personal basis, the Library must remain open, with access to it always guaranteed.

I don't want to live in a world where there's no privacy, and therefore no room for intellectual exploration and creativity.

People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect.

ORU is a daring new concept in higher education. It was planned to be from the beginning, one that would be able and willing to innovate change in all three basic aspects of your being - the intellectual, the physical and the spiritual.

There is no firm reason to anticipate that the intellectual capacities of peoples geographically separated in their evolution should prove to have evolved identically. Our wanting to reserve equal powers of reason as some universal heritage of humanity will not be enough to make it so.

Keep children as much as possible by themselves ... keep them from company, good or bad. ... It will be generally found that the most virtuous and the most intellectual, are those who have been brought up with few companions. ... in fact his mental resources may be considered entirely unknown and unexplored, who cannot spend his best and happiest hours alone.

Chess is an effective means to educate and train the human intellect.

True Sufism is resistance: spiritual, intellectual, social, cultural, political and economic resistance. It cannot be, for sure, supporting dictators.

I think, therefore I am' is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.

Everything we know has its origins in questions. Questions, we might say, are the principal intellectual instruments available to human beings.

I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot.

Weak logic, inconsistencies and alienation from the people are common features of authoritarianism. The relentless attempts of totalitarian regimes to prevent free thought and new ideas and the persistent assertion of their own rightness bring on them an intellectual stasis which they project on to the nation at large. Intimidation and propaganda work in a duet of oppression, while the people, lapped in fear and distrust, learn to dissemble and to keep silent.

The object of basic education is the physical, intellectual and moral development of children through the medium of handicraft.

To be an intellectual really means to speak a truth that allows suffering to speak.