Quotes About Intellectual

Liberty, according to my metaphysics, is an intellectual quality, an attribute that belongs not to fate nor chance. Neither possesses it, neither is capable of it. There is nothing moral or immoral in the idea of it. The definition of it is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power; it can elect between objects, indifferent in point of morality, neither morally good nor morally evil.

Physical growth is a function of time. No two-year-old child has ever been six feet tall. Intellectual growth is a function of learning. Spiritual growth is neither a function of time or learning, but it is a function of obedience.

psychologists are too polite with one another's ideas.

Market failure isn't an intellectual curiosity. In many areas of the economy, such as health care, high technology, and finance, it is endemic.

[An intellectual] is someone who can listen to the "William Tell Overture" without thinking of the Lone Ranger.

Emotion lay at the very heart of the process of perception, intertwined with intellectual functions, yet adding to perception a quality that reason lacked.

Anselm conceives of God as something than which nothing greater or more perfect can be conceived. Since this idea arises in our minds it certainly has an intellectual existence. But does it have an existence outside of our minds? Anselm argued that it must, for otherwise we fall into a contradiction. For we could imagine something greater than that which nothing greater can be conceived; that is the mental conception we have together, plus the added attribute of real existence.

Intellectual progress usually occurs through sheer abandonment of questions together with both of the alternatives they assume -- an abandonment that results from their decreasing vitality and a change of urgent interest. We do not solve them: we get over them.

Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition

Strait-jacket and chain-gang procedures had to be done away with if there was to a chance for growth of individuals in the intellectual springs of freedom without which there is no assurance of genuine and continued normal growth.

Contemplative and bookish men must of necessity be more quarrelsome than others, because neither do they contend about matters of fact nor can they determine their controversies by any certain witnesses or judges.

In intellectual honesty, we should be willing to study and explore the spiritual life with all the rigor and determination we would give to any field of research.

Laughter is one of the great beacons in life because we don't refract it by gunning it through our intellectual prism. What makes us laugh is a mystery - an involuntary response.

I felt a bit bookish, cut off from life.

All our inventions have endowed material forces with intellectual life, and degraded human life into a material force.

Literature is a comprehensive essence of the intellectual life of a nation.

Wanda: But you think you're an intellectual, don't you, ape?  Otto:     Apes don't read philosophy.  Wanda: Yes, they do, Otto. They just don't understand it. A Fish Called Wanda (1988) One cannot help but think of A Fish Called Wanda when one reads Richard Dawkins's The God Delusion; or at least I can't.

What Hitchens should have written is: "I wouldn't know the difference between conceptualism and realism, essentially and accidentally ordered causal series, Aristotle and Hume, etc., even if I were intellectually honest; but then, neither will the book reviewer at the New York Times, so who cares?

If there is one central intellectual reality at the end of the twentieth century, it is that the biological approach to psychiatry--treating mental illness as a genetically influenced disorder of brain chemistry--has been a smashing success. Freud's ideas, which dominated the history of psychiatry for the past half century, are now vanishing like the last snows of winter.

The chief surely knows that his job is to be on the right side of the Constitution, blatherings about the 'wrong side of history' are an appeal to intellectual cowardice. – Edward Whelan

Stealing the ideas of others mirrors and certifies plagiarism.

The sea does not require to be recognized, and neither it falls into the rivers, nor it hinders falling the rivers into it. Similarly, intellectual, genius the sea of wisdom figures do not need and look for the applauses and appreciations, but they are naturally and automatically honoured by those who feel and understand their wisdom and thoughts

The stolen ideas, words, and quotes do not make you a unique author. You are only a thief of the literature, and pseudo-intellectual.

Thinking is painful business.