Quotes About Intellectual

I really love having smart and important conversations on TV.

Music, verily, is the mediator between intellectual and sensuous life... the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

The vain arrogance of the literati and the Bohemian artists dismisses the activities of the businessmen as unintellectual money-making. The truth is that the entrepreneurs and promoters display more intellectual faculties and intuition than the average writer and painter. The inferiority of many self-styled intellectuals manifests itself precisely in the fact that they fail to recognize what capacity and reasoning power are required to develop and to operate successfully a business enterprise.

What ranks above all else for economic and political reconstruction is a radical change of ideologies. Economic prosperity is not so much a material problem; it is, first of all, an intellectual, spiritual, and moral problem.

be sure your communication goes beyond words. How can you do that? By connecting on four levels: visually, intellectually, emotionally, and verbally.

I hope the next time the young go out for an intellectual rebellion, they will think to try the library. It's still the most subversive building in town, and it's still human headquarters.

His persona seemed very odd to me: it was as though he'd once seen an intellectual, and had spent the rest of his life impersonating him.

Who dares to be intellectual in the presence of death?

All the old fellows stole our best ideas.

The scientific argument advanced for intelligent design at the Dover trial, those arguments collapsed, scientifically and intellectually

In companies whose wealth is intellectual capital, networks, rather than hierarchies, are the right organizational design.

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

They sent me away to teach me how to be sensible, Logical, oh responsible, practical. And they showed me a world where I could be so dependable, Oh clinical, oh intellectual, cynical...

To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education.

I think one of the unique aspects of Catholic school education is the opportunity to care for the material and intellectual needs of the child in a community atmosphere.

As an academic, I value the free exchange of ideas.

Too many documentaries are intellectual exercises. I want documentaries to be alive.

I alienated myself from the academic world almost entirely because it's a left-wing world.

I'm nothing if not a literary hedonist.

So what if people disagree about values? People also disagree about facts. . . . In my view, the great intellectual challenge facing conservatives is to make the case for morality at a time when many in the West have ceased to believe in an external moral order. The decline of belief in such an order is the most important political development of the past two centuries. Indeed, this decline has created the crisis of the West.

We are in need of inquiry into the epistemology of practice. What is the kind of knowing in which competent practitioners engage? How is professional knowing like and unlike the kinds of knowledge presented in academic textbooks, scientific papers, and learned journals? In what sense, if any, is there intellectual rigor in professional practice?

for always the greatest obstacle to intellectual and moral progress with Socrates is people's unwillingness to confront their own ignorance.

At one point, Paola expressed a wish and used the subjunctive, and Brunetti felt himself close to tears at the beauty of the intellectual complexity of it: she could speak about what was not, could invent an alternative reality. He

belief that heresy was a form of intellectual stubbornness, the refusal to abandon a mistaken idea. In