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Quotes About Intellectual

Pictures aren't intellectual media. Pictures are pictures. The movie business belonged to the celebrity people and they wouldn't begin to know how to portray an intellectual book like his.... But what he saw at this point was a social pattern of values, a film, devouring an intellectual pattern of values, his book. It would be a lower form of life feeding upon a higher form of life. As such it would be immoral.
~ Robert M. Pirsig
This divorce of art from technology is completely unnatural. It's just that it's gone on so long you have to be an archeologist to find out where the two separated. Rotisserie assembly is actually a long-lost branch of sculpture, so divorced from its roots by centuries of intellectual wrong turns that just to associate the two sounds ludicrous." They're
~ Robert M. Pirsig
The easiest intellectual analogue of pure Quality that people in our environment can understand is that 'Quality is the response of an organism to its environment' [he
~ Robert M. Pirsig
Ideology is: intellectual ordering of the feelings; an objective connection among them that makes the subjective connection easier.
~ Robert Musil
a face more suited for making book than selling books.
~ Robert Olen Butler
Morals can't function normally because morals have been declared intellectually illegal by the subject object metaphysics that dominates present social thought
~ Robert Pirsig
Keynes rejected Labour's anti-élitism. He felt that the intellectual elements in the Labour party will '[n]ever exercise adequate control; too much will always be decided by those who do not know at all what they are talking about'. The Conservatives were much better off in this respect, since 'the inner ring of the party can almost dictate the details and the technique of policy'.
~ Robert Skidelsky
1.?Businesses that do not require his presence: He owns them, but they are managed or run by other people. If he has to work there, it's not a business. It becomes his job. 2.?Stocks 3.?Bonds 4.?Income-generating real estate 5.?Notes (IOUs) 6.?Royalties from intellectual property such as music, scripts, and patents 7.?Anything else that has value, produces income or appreciates, and has a ready market
~ Robert T. Kiyosaki
1.?Businesses that do not require his presence: He owns them, but they are managed or run by other people. If he has to work there, it's not a business. It becomes his job. 2.?Stocks 3.?Bonds 4.?Income-generating real estate 5.?Notes (IOUs) 6.?Royalties from intellectual property such as music, scripts, and patents
~ Robert T. Kiyosaki
Being an intellectual, he thought that salespeople were below him.
~ Robert T. Kiyosaki
In the Information Age, quality information is our most important asset.
~ Robert T. Kiyosaki
Sure, there have always been ideologues on campuses, but the old ideologues were at least expected to argue the validity of their ideas. The new brand are ideologues of feelings, and feelings can't be argued. Despite being a certified left-wing feminist, I just don't believe that experience or identity credentialize you intellectually.
~ Laura Kipnis
Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition.
~ Stephen Jay Gould
The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.
~ Paul Valery
[Geology] opens up such wide intellectual vistas and supplies a more perfectly unified and more comprehensive conception of nature than any other science.
~ Rosa Luxemburg
I have a hunch that the unknown sequences of DNA will decode into copyright notices and patent protections.
~ Donald Knuth
Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance
~ Clifford Geertz
But anything that can be called "rigor" is lost exactly where the things become interesting and non trivial.
~ Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov
Science, not religion, has taught me my most useful values, among them intellectual honesty. It is better to go without answers than to accept those that merely resolve puzzlement.
~ B. F. Skinner
By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
~ E. O. Wilson
Science and knowledge, especially that of philosophy, came from the Arabs into the West.
~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The chief business of seventeenth-century philosophy was to reckon with seventeenth-century science... the chief business of twentieth-century philosophy is to reckon with twentieth-century history.
~ Robin G. Collingwood
We're losing track of the vastness of the potential for computer science. We really have to revive the beautiful intellectual joy of it, as opposed to the business potential.
~ Jaron Lanier
The best causes tend to attract to their support the worst arguments, which seems to be equally true in the intellectual and in the moral sense.
~ Ronald Fisher