Intellectual Quotes - Page 10

• It strikes me as very strange that whereas Tennyson could support most of Mr. Buckley's propositions about free trade, and the private sector, and private enterprise, Tennyson found no difficulty also in lending intellectual support to the idea of Women's Liberation.

  Germaine Greer

  Ideas, Support, Strange

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• Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.

  Walter Gropius

  Guiding Principles, Design, Stuff

  "Form and Function", www.interviewmagazine.com. July 23, 2009.

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• Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Freedom, Anchors, Independence

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• You are welcome to your intellectual pastimes and books and art and newspapers; welcome, too, to your bars and your whisky that only makes me ill. Here am I in the forest, quite content.

  Knut Hamsun

  Art, Book, Bars

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• There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side.

  Vaclav Havel

  Hero, Winning, Intelligent

  Disturbing the Peace ch. 5 (1986) (translation by Paul Wilson)

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• It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Men, Appreciate, Who Cares

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2007). “SAT Words from Literature - the Scarlet Letter”, p.35, Prestwick House Inc

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• Rules and models destroy genius and art.

  William Hazlitt

  Art, Freedom, Teaching

  'Sketches and Essays' (1839) 'On Taste'

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• The forces that are driving mankind toward unity and peace are deep-seated and powerful. They are material and natural, as well as moral and intellectual.

  Arthur Henderson

  Peace, Powerful, Unity

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• Fashion should be fun. It shouldn't be labelled 'intellectual.'

  Carolina Herrera

  Fashion, Fun, Should

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• When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Bullying, Clever, Kindness

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• You can do the best research and be making the strongest intellectual argument, but if readers don't get past the third paragraph you've wasted your energy and valuable ink.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Past, Energy, Ink

  "He's all the rage". Interview with Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. March 17, 2002.

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• A good day is one where I can not just read a book, but write a review of it. Maybe today I'll be able to do that. I get for some reason somewhat stronger when the sun starts to go down. Dusk is a good time for me. I'm crepuscular.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Book, Writing, Good Day

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• It is ironic that the United States should have been founded by intellectuals, for throughout most of our political history, the intellectual has been for the most part either an outsider, a servant or a scapegoat.

  Richard Hofstadter

  Should Have, Political, Ironic

  "Anti-Intellectualism in American Life". Book by Richard Hofstadter, pp. 145-146, 1963.

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• The intellect is a cold thing and a merely intellectual idea will never stimulate thought in the same manner that a spiritual idea does.

  Ernest Holmes

  Spiritual, Ideas, Doe

  Ernest Holmes (2010). “Living Without Fear”, p.24, Penguin

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• Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.

  Herbert Hoover

  Carpe Diem, History, Political

  Herbert Hoover (1938). “Addresses upon the American road”, C. Scribner's sons

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  Always be smarter than the people who hire you.

  Lena Horne

  Inspiring, Work, People

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

  Victor Hugo

  Strong, Bitter Words, Bitterness

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• The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.

  Robert M. Hutchins

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals.

  Thomas Huxley

  Struggle, Science, Thinking

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.229, Cambridge University Press

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• To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.

  Henry James

  Appreciate, Criticism, Fine

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When you're watching Psycho, there' s that moment when you have a visceral reaction to watching someone being stabbed. And then you have the intellectual revelation that you're not, and that's where the celebration comes in.

  Penn Jillette

  Psycho, Celebration, Moments

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• This revolution, the information revoultion, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy. It's very crude today, yet our Macintosh computer takes less power than a 100-watt bulb to run it and it can save you hours a day. What will it be able to do ten or 20 years from now, or 50 years from now?

  Steve Jobs

  Running, Years, Energy

  "Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs". Interview With David Sheff, reprints.longform.org. February 1985.

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• Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

  Carl Jung

  Truth, Business, Knowledge

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.121, Psychology Press

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• Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.

  Garrison Keillor

  Nature, Cat, Garden

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.

  Caroline Kennedy

  Reading, People, Parent

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