Intellectual Development Quotes

• Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Education

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  When children attend schools that place a greater value on discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending prep schools for prison.

  Angela Davis

  Children, School, Discipline

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• Psychohistory, like psychoanalysis, is a science in which the researcher's feelings are as much or even more a part of his research equipment than his eyes or his hands. Weighing of complex motives can only be accomplished by identification with human actors, the usual suppression of all feeling preached and followed by most "science" simply cripples a psychohistorian as badly as it would cripple a biologist to be forbidden the use of a microscope. The emotional development of a psychohistorian is therefore as much a topic for discussion as his or her intellectual development.

  Lloyd deMause

  Eye, Emotional, Hands

  "Foundations of Psychohistory". Book by Lloyd deMause, 1982.

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• In any given society the authority of man over man runs in inverse proportion to the intellectual development of that society.

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

  Running, Men, Intellectual

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• In certain circumstances where he experiments in new types of conduct by cooperating with his equals, the child is already an adult. There is an adult in every child and a child in every adult. ... There exist in the child certain attitudes and beliefs which intellectual development will more and more tend to eliminate: there are others which will acquire more and more importance. The later are not derived from the former but are partly antagonistic to them.

  Jean Piaget

  Children, Attitude, Intellectual

  Jean Piaget (1997). “The Moral Judgement of the Child”, p.85, Simon and Schuster

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• The education of my brother and myself was of paramount importance to my parents, and in addition to their strong encouragement, they were prepared to make any sacrifice to further our intellectual development.

  Jerome Isaac Friedman

  Encouragement, Brother, Strong

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• Amherst was pivotal in my broad intellectual development; MIT in my development as a professional economist.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Intellectual, Mit, Development

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• If Socialism can only be realized when the intellectual development of all the people permits it, then we shall not see Socialism for at least five hundred years.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Eugenics, Years, People

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• The most powerful influence exercised by the Arabs on general natural physics was that directed to the advances of chemistry ; a science for which this race created a new era.(...) Besides making laudatory mention of that which we owe to the natural science of the Arabs in both the terrestrial and celestial spheres, we must likewise allude to their contributions in separate paths of intellectual development to the general mass of mathematical science.

  Alexander von Humboldt

  Powerful, Race, Intellectual

  "Cosmos". Book by H.G. Bohn, v2, p. 589,595, 1860.

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• Our intellectual development in the field of science has outstripped our human development in the field of character.

  L. P. Jacks

  Character, Intellectual, Development

  BBC Radio National Lecture, as quoted in "The Listener", Vol. 19, British Broadcasting Corporation, 1938.

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• A divine revelation must necessarily be intolerant of contradiction; it must repudiate all improvement in itself, and view with disdain that arising from the progressive intellectual development of man.

  John William Draper

  Men, Views, Intellectual

  John William Draper (1875). “History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science: By John William Draper ...”, p.6, New York, D. Appleton

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• In Buddhism, both learning and practice are extremely important, and they must go hand in hand. Without knowledge, just to rely on faith, faith, and more faith is good but not sufficient. So the intellectual part must definitely be present. At the same time, strictly intellectual development without faith and practice, is also of no use. It is necessary to combine knowledge born from study with sincere practice in our daily lives. These two must go together.

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhist, Learning, Buddhism

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• Character grows in the soil of experience with the fertilization of example, the moisture of ambition, and the sunshine of satisfaction. Character cannot be purchased, bargained for, inherited, rented or imported from afar. It must be home-grown. Purely intellectual development without commensurate internal character development makes as much sense as putting a high-powered sports car in the hands of a teenager who is high on drugs. Yet all too often in the academic world, that's exactly what we do by not focusing on the character development of young people.

  Stephen Covey

  Sports, Teenager, Home

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• Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development.

  Oscar Wilde

  Ideas, Intellectual, Development

  "Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young" (1894)

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• I am afraid that you have been listening to the conversation of someone older than yourself. That is always a dangerous thing to do, and if you allow it to degenerate into a habit, you will find it absolutely fatal to any intellectual development.

  Oscar Wilde

  Intellectual, Listening, Degenerates

  Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (2008). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.248, Oxford University Press

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• It is imperfection - not perfection - that is the end result of the program written into that formidably complex engine that is the human brain, and of the influences exerted upon us by the environment and whoever takes care of us during the long years of our physical, psychological and intellectual development.

  Rita Levi-Montalcini

  Years, Long, Perfection

  "Dr. Rita Levi-Montalcini, Nobel Winner, Dies at 103" by Benedict Carey, www.nytimes.com. December 30, 2012.

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• Sports and entertainment are the only places where inner-city kids see themselves being able to succeed. Their intellectual development is something they don't relate to.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Sports, Kids, Cities

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• We've had 60 years of intellectual development in Iran. How can we have the same system? Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.

  Akbar Ganji

  Iran, Years, Intellectual

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I sometimes ask myself how it came about that I was the one to develop the theory of relativity. The reason, I think, is that a normal adult never stops to think about problems of space and time. These are things which he has thought about as a child. Bu t my intellectual development was retarded,as a result of which I began to wonder about space and time only when I had already grown up.

  Albert Einstein

  Children, Thinking, Space

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• We live in a historical period characterized by a sharp discrepancy between the intellectual development of man... and his mental-emotional development, which has left him still in a state of marked narcissism with all its pathological symptoms.

  Christopher Lasch

  Men, Emotional, Discrepancies Between

  Christopher Lasch (1991). “The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations”, p.31, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Tennis doesn't encourage any kind of intellectual development.

  Jim Courier

  Encouragement, Tennis, Intellectual

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• My basic idea is that programming is the most powerful medium of developing the sophisticated and rigorous thinking needed for mathematics, for grammar, for physics, for statistics, for all the "hard" subjects.... In short, I believe more than ever that programming should be a key part of the intellectual development of people growing up.

  Seymour Papert

  Growing Up, Powerful, Believe

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• The intellectual development of man, far from having get men away from war, has, rather, on the contrary, bring them to a refinment always more perfected in the art of killing. They even came to raise the methods of slaughter to the rank of "science"... We would not (On ne saurait", Fr.) imagine a more extraordinary moral blindness!

  African Spir

  Art, War, Men

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 55), 1937.

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• Deafness, though it be total and congenital, imposes no limits on the intellectual development of its subjects, save in the single direction of the appreciation of acoustic phenomena.

  Edward Miner Gallaudet

  Appreciation, Intellectual, Development

  Edward Miner Gallaudet, Lance J. Fischer, David L. De Lorenzo (1983). “History of the College for the Deaf, 1857-1907”, p.255, Gallaudet University Press

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• The young women, what can they not learn, what can they not achieve, with Columbia University annex thrown open to them? In this great outlook for women's broader intellectual development I see the great sunburst of the future.

  M. E. W. Sherwood

  Future, Intellectual, Academia

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