Quotes About Intellectual

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

If you admit that to silence your opponent by force is to win an intellectual argument, then you admit the right to silence people by force.

The underlying intellectual argument for seeking to tax economic rents retains its force.

What makes a tight circle or a tight little square box more of an intellectual statement than something done emotionally, I don't know. Art is an essence, a center.

Most authors steal their works, or buy.

You are welcome to your intellectual pastimes and books and art and newspapers; welcome, too, to your bars and your whisky that only makes me ill. Here am I in the forest, quite content.

It's no fun to be a bluestocking in a family of jockstraps.

In the arts they call it plagiarism, in business they call it competition.

There has never been a boy painter, nor can there be. The art requires a long apprenticeship, being mechanical, as well as intellectual.

... the novel is called upon like no other art form to incorporate the intellectual content of an age.

Unlike art which contains a message, wine conveys nothing, it has no intellectual or cognitive content

Corporately contrived art product replaces inspired intellectual property with ineffectual poperty.

My deepest impulses are optimistic; an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect.

But selling patents was a good idea only for someone like Edison, who had ideas faster than he could put them to practice. (He had a world-record 1,093 patents issued to him in the United States and 1,500 worldwide.)

selling patents was a good idea only for someone like Edison, who had ideas faster than he could put them to practice. (He had a world-record 1,093 patents issued to him in the United States and 1,500 worldwide.)

El pensamiento es la esencia misma de la empresa y la vida, y lo más difícil de lograr en ambas. Los forjadores de imperios dedican horas y horas a la labor intelectual… mientras otros se van de fiesta. Si no te planteas conscientemente el esfuerzo de ejercer el pensamiento creativo autoguiado… entonces estás cayendo en la pereza y ya no controlarás tu vida. —DAVID KEKICH

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Commentators who today talk of 'The Dark Ages' when faith instead of reason was said to ruthlessly rule, have for their animadversions only the excuse of perfect ignorance. Both Aquinas' intellectual gifts and his religious nature were of a kind that is no longer commonly seen in the Western world.

So, as networks expand in size, their potential intellectual synergy increases much faster: "larger and denser populations equal faster technological advance.

After hearing our presentation, audience members would raise their hands and ask, "So, what was the single big thing you did to achieve these great results?" "Well," I said, "there was no single best practice. It was a mind-set of intellectual rigor we had adopted that made the difference. It's this mind-set that you should be striving to replicate in your own organization.

Hell hath no fury like a coolly received postmodernist.

The whole quantum setup ends up being embarrassing in the special way something pretentious is embarrassing when it's also wrong. Better

It is I am sure a kind of unorthodoxy, and considered thus by some," I hear my master say (I resume my station, still flustered and with a madly working heart), "but it is my conviction that the more religiously and intellectually enlightened a Negro is made, the better for himself, his master, and the commonweal.

Pale, nervous girls with black-rimmed glasses and blunt-cut hair lolled around on sofas, riffling Penguin Classics provocatively… But it wasn't just intellectual experiences. They were peddling emotional ones, too. For fifty bucks, I learned, you could 'relate without getting close.' For a hundred, a girl would lend you her Bartok records, have dinner, and then let you watch while she had an anxiety attack.