Extremists often derive their inspiration from literal interpretations of texts that should rightly be read not as Associated Press reports from the ancient world, but as theological and literary enterprises requiring independent intellectual assessment.
I like intellectual journeys.
In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.
Hackers are breaking the systems for profit. Before, it was about intellectual curiosity and pursuit of knowledge and thrill, and now hacking is big business.
I was addicted to hacking, more for the intellectual challenge, the curiosity, the seduction of adventure; not for stealing, or causing damage or writing computer viruses.
I don't consider myself an intellectual. And this is not one of my aims. But I admire intellectual people.
When I start writing songs and it turns into an overly belabored intellectual process, I just throw it out.
It's been mentioned or suggested that Paradise will not be well studied, because it's about this unimportant intellectual topic, which is religion.
There is nothing wrong with intellectual differences flowing from freedom of thought as long as such differences remain confined to intellectual debates.
Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention.
If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants.
What has been forgotten is that there were major intellectual breakthroughs in the 1960s, thanks to North American writers of an older generation. There was a rupture in continuity, since most young people influenced by those breakthroughs did not enter the professions.
I think that a failure of statistical thinking is the major intellectual shortcoming of our universities, journalism and intellectual culture.
By exploring the political and moral colorings of discoveries about what makes us tick, we can have a more honest science and a less fearful intellectual milieu.
There's guilt about our treatment of native peoples in modern intellectual life, and an unwillingness to acknowledge there could be anything good about Western culture.
Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.
The classic rule of thumb is that if you are an intellectual ideological magazine, you do better in opposition than you do if your views are reflected by people in power.
I had to satisfy the action fans, the romantic fans, the intellectual fans. It was a terrific burden.
Now, I'm not saying I'm fashionable, but there are sociological interests that matter to me, things that are theoretical, political, intellectual and also concerned with vanity and beauty that we all think about but that I try to mix up and translate into fashion.
Women often don't want to admit that they like fashion. And yet fashion enthralls everyone, from the taxi driver to the mega-intellectual. I have often asked myself why this is. I don't know the answer.
I have spent a good part of my life showing what an intellectual bubble the Left lives in.
I'm strictly for Stevenson. I don't dig the intellectual bit, but I'm telling you, man, he knows the most.
What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.
It is only through the opposition of ideas that we can learn to be self-critical, to work towards intellectual humility.
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