Quotes About Intellectual

Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.

Intellectual honesty does not consist in trying to entrench or establish one's position by proving (or 'probabilifying') it - intellectual honesty consists rather in specifying precisely the conditions under which one is willing to give up one's position. Marxists and Freudians refuse to specify such conditions: this is the hallmark of their intellectual dishonesty.

Intellectual honesty does not consist in trying to entrench or establish one's position by proving (or 'probabilifying') it - intellectual honesty consists rather in specifying precisely the conditions under which one is willing to give up one's position. Committed Marxists and Freudians refuse to specify such conditions: this is the hallmark of their intellectual dishonest.

Intellectual honesty does not consist in trying to entrench or establish one's position by proving (or 'probabilifying') it - intellectual honesty consists rather in specifying precisely the conditions under which one is willing to give up one's position. Committed Marxists and Freudians refuse to specify such conditions: this is the hallmark of their intellectual dishonesty

Los colegas son una puta pérdida de tiempo. Siempre están dispuestos a arrastrarte hasta su nivel de mediocridad social, sexual e intelectual.

Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.

multitud de ineptos literarios salen adelante por la inseguridad intelectual de sus lectores; y montones de plumíferos escriben grandes fárragos de mala -poesía- y viven de ello.

There was an element of secrecy in a home library. It breathed of intellectual anarchy.

A civilization that is expanding through space will not need our few worlds and will probably be too intellectually advanced to feel the need to batter its way into hegemony here. If, however, we are surrounded by a more lively, a more vibrant civilization, we will wither away by the mere force of the comparison; we will die of the realization of what we have become and of the potential we have wasted.

No, literature was definitely not a reasonable career path in a country like Chile where intellectual scorn for women was absolute.

Rob Zombie's very intellectual-crazy, and I like people like that. No stupid craziness.

Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

The beauty of the animal form is in exact proportion to the amount of moral and intellectual virtue expressed by it.

Banality is a terribly likely consequence of the underuse of a good mind.

Cynicism is intellectual dandyism, without the coxcomb's feathers.

Life is essentially a series of events to be lived through rather than intellectual riddles to be played with and solved.

I personally think intellectual property is an oxymoron. Physical objects have a completely different natural economy than intellectual goods. It's a tricky thing to try to own something that remains in your possession even after you give it to many others.

I think there are three kinds of songs; it's only my theory: psychological, emotional, and spiritual. When you write psychologically or intellectually, you have a tune in your mind, and you re-write it. It's an intellectual approach. The emotional is my favorite because it comes from my kishkas; it comes from my soul.

Our educational system is appallingly poor right now. Yet, somehow we're turning out some of the most intellectual and powerful sophisticated minds in the world. I think that's because we still have the opportunity here.

One thing I don't want around me is a military intellectual. I don't have to worry about you on that score.

I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product. I'm willing to go thermonuclear war on this.

What could be more rational than the decision to use my gifts in a way which would most clearly manifest my moral and intellectual convictions?' My

Hardly anyone believes himself to be against thought and culture," Hofstadter writes. "Men do not rise in the morning, grin at themselves in their mirrors, and say: 'Ah, today I shall torment an intellectual and strangle an idea!'"5

The denigration of fairness has infected both political and intellectual life and has now produced a culture in which disproportionate influence is exercised by the loud and relentless voices of single-minded men and women of one persuasion or another.