Quotes About Intellectual

All of us, from children to scientists, have difficulty accepting data that go against our firmly held beliefs. We have to restructure too much of our intellectual framework to assimilate such surprises. It is far less costly, at least for a time, to keep the framework and deny the fact.

A community that finds it natural to suffocate with the care of home and children so many women's intellectual energies is its own enemy and doesn't realize it." I

A community that finds it natural to suffocate with the care of home and children so many women's intellectual energies is its own enemy and doesn't realize it.

Uma comunidade que acha natural sufocar com o cuidado dos filhos e da casa tantas energias intelectuais femininas é inimiga de si mesma e não se dá conta.

The trouble with this, in MacIntyre's opinion, was that all the insistence on the primacy of reason and of "rational debate" had ever achieved was to have erased from men's minds what, since Aristotle, had been the main support for their entire moral, intellectual, and political lives: the concept of virtue. And it had given them nothing in return. Their intellectual "light" was, in fact, nothing other than moral darkness.

The popular element "feels" but does not always know or understand; the intellectual element "knows" but does not always understand and in particular does not always feel.

My philosophy is fundamentally sad, but I'm not a sad man, and I don't believe I sadden anyone else. In other words, the fact that I don't put my philosophy into practice saves me from its evil spell, or, rather, my faith in the human race is stronger then my intellectual analysis of it; there lies the fountain of youth in which my heart is continually bathing.

A foolish person who has selfish intent towards the people can't have brilliant quality content in own thoughts; however that individual does not understand that any attempt to paint oneself as an intellectual or a saint/wise by rhyming and priming quote with nice words may only get a lot of support of sycophants, but s/he gets exposed to the intelligent in an era of internet.

A person who is truly intellectual gets emotional for only living things not materials like gadgets or machinery like cars etc because being sentimental means having human feelings for real not artificial

A very ordinary post from influential or financially rich guys gets Likes vote from many or most people on his social media account, whereas an ordinary class, sensible person sharing a very intellectually rich post gets support often from none in his circle. Such is the level of hypocrisy in our society.

An intellectual being reliable speaks the things in general for people and factual not favourable to any person of a political party in particular.

Exploration is the physical expression of the Intellectual Passion

Writing was the solution to every problem—financial, emotional, intellectual. It had kept me company when I was a lonely child. It gave me an excuse to go places I would otherwise be unlikely to venture. It satisfied the edict my mother had issued many times throughout my life: "You have to make your own living; you never want to be dependent on a man.

Clearly there are kinds of sentimentality that media mobs favor. They condemn others as a way to pretend intellectual superiority.

Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.

For the artists the humanists were the guarantors of their intellectual status, and the humanists themselves recognized the value of art as a mean of propaganda for the ideas on which their own intellectual supremacy is based.

But it was not forgotten that an outside historical influence is never the ultimate reason for an intellectual revolution, for such an influence can become effective only if the preconditions fro its reception are already in existence.

We are, perhaps, more sensitive about the pedigree of our intellectual creed than we are about the pedigree of our tastes or our sentiments. We like to think that beliefs which claim to be rational are the product of a purely rational process; and though, where others are concerned, we complacently admit the intrusion of non-rational links in the causal chain, we have higher ambitions for ourselves.

Conservatives have the most effective solutions for human flourishing in our intellectual DNA. Our ideas have lifted up people all over the world. But the American people do not trust us to put those principles into practice to help those who need help right here.

My favourite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence. [Sources and Acknowledgements: Chapter 19]

I had a big 'New York Times' crossword puzzle phase.

President Gerald Ford was no intellectual, but he had served with distinction in combat as a naval gunnery officer and then as Congressman for a quarter century.

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.

A social democratic party without deep roots in the working class movement would quickly fade into an unrepresentative intellectual sect.