Quotes About Intellectual

But, you see, if being an intellectual means you like to learn, that you're curious and attentive and can admire things and be moved by them and try to understand how it all hangs together, and try to go to bed a bit less stupid than the day before, well, then yes: not only am I an intellectual but I'm proud to be one. Really proud, even.

si être intello ça veut dire aimer s'instruire, être curieux, attentif, admirer, s'émouvoir, essayer de comprendre comment tout ça tient debout et tenter de se coucher un peu moins con que la veille, alors oui, je le revendique totalement : non seulement je suis une intello, mais en plus je suis fière de l'être... Vachement fière, même...

When it came to intellectual property, justice was simple and clear.

they need complex social and political conditions for their emergence—to produce a sense of community experience which makes for collective endeavour. Five conditions seem to be necessary for this: the existence of large numbers in the same situation; geographical concentration; identifiable targets of opposition; sudden events or changes in social position; and an intellectual leadership with readily understood goals. [Jeffery Weeks]

Our age is indeed the age of the intellectual organization of political hatreds. It will be one of its chief claims to notice in the moral history of humanity. —Julien Benda, La trahison des clercs, 1927

Nuestra época es de hecho la época de la organización intelectual de los odios políticos. Este será uno de sus principales rasgos a destacar en la historia moral de la humanidad. JULIEN BENDA, La trahison des clercs, 1927

I have never been able to resist a book about books.

If you put individuals together in the right way, such that some individuals can use their reasoning powers to disconfirm the claims of others, and all individuals feel some common bond or shared fate that allows them to interact civilly, you can create a group that ends up producing good reasoning as an emergent property of the social system. This is why it's so important to have intellectual and ideological diversity within any group or institution whose goal is to find truth.

Cand eram copil, pentru mine, luxul insemna mantouri de blana, rochii lungi si vile pe malul marii. Mai tarziu, am crezut ca inseamna sa duci o viata de intelectual. Acum mi se pare ca inseamna si sa poti trai o pasiune pentru un barbat sau o femeie.

Çocukken benim için lüks, kürk mantolar, uzun elbiseler ve deniz k?y?s?ndaki villalard?. Daha sonra bunun entellektüel bir yaÅŸam sürmek olduÄŸuna inand?m. Åžimdi bana öyle geliyor ki lüks ayn? zamanda, bir erkeÄŸe ya da bir kad?na olan tutkuyu yaÅŸayabilmektir

Quand j'étais enfant, le luxe, c'était pour moi les manteaux de fourrure, les robes longues et les villas au bord de la mer. Plus tard, j'ai cru que c'était de mener une vie d'intellectuel. Il me semble maintenant que c'est aussi de pouvoir vivre une passion pour un homme ou une femme

Hier, mon découragement, mon dégoût de moi-même en regardant avec lui, à la télé, ces jeux imbéciles de TF 1, Le juste prix par exemple. J'ai découvert à quel point il était peu intellectuel.

I think music is the most phenomenal platform for intellectual thought.

Tracking the intellectual advancement of several hundred graduate students in the sciences over the course of four years, its authors found that the development of crucial skills such as generating hypotheses, designing experiments, and analyzing data was closely related to the students' engagement with their peers in the lab, and not to the guidance they received from their faculty mentors.

My parents were gigantic influences on me. I had a deep hunger to impress my father, who was a professor and an intellectual. I wanted his approval.

I have known people who are working class or craftsmen, who happen to be more intellectual than professors.

I think the general public's response to my projects is very strong. You can be an intellectual and say that popularity detracts from architectural quality. On the other hand, you can see in the public's identification something very positive.

My parents were lured to America by the democracy here promised. In our family, freedom was a word to conjure by. Hoping for larger privileges for the growing family of children, they brought them to the New World, the world of many intellectual as well as material advantages.

I am naturally prone to fun or to be funny, but when I talk about myself in interviews, then it's an intellectual exercise.

I think copyright is moral, proper. I think a creator has the right to control the disposition of his or her works - I actually believe that the financial issue is less important than the integrity of the work, the attribution, that kind of stuff.

Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches.

People have to respect intellectual property.

Notwithstanding the fact that the most innovative and progressive space we've seen - the Internet - has been the place where intellectual property has been least respected. You know, facts don't get in the way of this ideology.

'The Book of Air and Shadows' was born during a conference with an intellectual property lawyer on a particular afternoon in November of 2003.