Quotes About Intellectual

La teología, el «estudio de Dios», no es un mero pasatiempo intelectual. Tampoco

Bret Weinstein

clear that the Bell Curve controversy will never be fought on the basis of the facts. These are too uncomfortable to be allowed to roam freely in the intellectual air. And

One reason Christianity has failed to exert much influence on the major intellectual institutions of America is that too many Christians hold their beliefs in an uninformed and precarious fashion. Instead of pursuing answers to the toughest questions an unbelieving world can marshal, they attempt to preserve certainty through ignorance and isolation, relying on platitudes rather than arguments.

Our family life was certainly not intellectual.

It is by the existence of Slavery, exempting so large a portion of our citizens from the necessity of bodily labor, that we have a greater proportion than any other people, who have leisure for intellectual pursuits, and the means of attaining a liberal education.

Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...

Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...

What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.

The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.

Excellence is the eternal quest. We achieve it by living up to our highest intellectual standards and our finest moral intuitions. In seeking excellence, take life seriously-but never yourself!

Mountains and deserts, with their sparse life at the limit of existence, make one restless and disconsolate; one becomes an explorer in an intellectual realm as well as in a physical one.

Our family life was certainly not intellectual.

Most areas of intellectual life have discovered the virtues of speculation, and have embraced them wildly. In academia, speculation is usually dignified as theory.

Consistency in opinion is the slow poison of intellectual life, the destroyer of its vividness and energy.

Speculating is the application of intellectual examination and systematic analysis to the problem of the uncertain future.

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People say that they will become Christians if you answer their objections, but very seldom is this actually true. Why? Because the problem of salvation is a moral one, not an intellectual one.

To die of obscurity is a great obloquy to an intellectual being.

Bibliotropic," Hugh said. "Like sunflowers are heliotropic, they naturally turn towards the sun. We naturally turn towards the bookshop.

A voracious reader with a large memory for what she read

These people could not be bailed out, of course, because the free market was free. Of course, at times of financial crisis the Government did, in fact, bail out the major institutions of the free market, but this did not in any way undermine the fundamental notion that the market must be free and this bailing out could, of course, not be extended to individuals within the free market. Some people are, alas, not intellectually capable of understanding arguments about such complex things.

Incited by the intellectual recompense of such a pursuit, Mrs. Radcliffe gave her romances in quick succession to the world: — her first work, "The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne," was published in the year 1789; the "Sicilian Romance," in 1790; the "Romance of the Forest," in 1791; "The Mysteries of Udolpho," in 1794; and " The Italian," in 1797.

It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman's brain!