Intellectual Quotes - Page 21

• It is perhaps the most characteristic feature of the intellectual that he judges new ideas not by their specific merits but by the readiness with which they fit into his general conceptions, into the picture of the world which he regards as modern or advanced.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Philosophy, Ideas, Judging

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• Comedy keeps the heart sweet; but we all know that there is wholesome refreshment for both mind and heart in an occasional climb among the pomps of the intellectual snow-summits built by Shakespeare and those others.

  Mark Twain

  Sweet, Heart, Snow

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.430, Courier Corporation

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• Academic disciplines are subject to being overtaken by attacks of "knowingness"- a state of mind and soul that prevents shudders of awe and makes one immune to enthusiasm.

  Richard Rorty

  Discipline, Soul, Intelligence

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• Almost all rich veins of original and striking speculation have been opened by systematic half-thinkers.

  John Stuart Mill

  Intelligence, Veins, Half

  John Stuart Mill (2008). “Utilitarianism and On Liberty: Including 'Essay on Bentham' and Selections from the Writings of Jeremy Bentham and John Austin”, p.67, John Wiley & Sons

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• By ignorance the truth is known.

  Henry Suso

  Learning, Ignorance, Intelligence

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• Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools than fools by wise men; for that wise men avoided the faults of fools, but that fools would not imitate the good examples of wise men.

  Plutarch

  Wise, Learning, Men

  Plutarch (2015). “Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography”, p.461, 谷月社

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• Doing the right thing is not the problem. Knowing what the right thing is, that's the challenge.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Success, Knowing, Challenges

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• Embedded in every technology there is a powerful idea, sometimes two or three powerful ideas. Like language itself, a technology predisposes us to favor and value certain perspectives and accomplishments and to subordinate others. Every technology has a philosophy, which is given expression in how the technology makes people use their minds, in how it codifies the world, in which of our senses it amplifies, in which of our emotional and intellectual tendencies it disregards.

  Neil Postman

  Powerful, Philosophy, Technology

  Neil Postman (2011). “The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School”, p.192, Vintage

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• I do not believe that every person, in every walk of life, can succeed in spite of any handicap. That would be perfection. But I do believe that what I was able to attain came to be because we put behind us (no matter how slowly) the dogmas of the past: to discover the truth of today; and perhaps the greatness of tomorrow.

  Jackie Robinson

  Success, Believe, Past

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• I know a lot of people think I'm dumb. Well, at least I ain't no educated fool.

  Leon Spinks

  Education, Thinking, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• One of the things that Ivar knew about Mrs. Walker was that she would only tell him what she knew if he asked the right question, so he spent a portion of his time meditating over what he might ask Mrs. Walker and how he might phrase the question.

  Jane Smiley

  Intelligence, Might, Phrases

  Jane Smiley (1995). “Moo”, Knopf

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• The admission fee was a viper's tongue and a half-concealed stiletto. It was a sort of intellectual slaughterhouse.

  Groucho Marx

  Intelligence, Tongue, Vipers

  Groucho Marx (2009). “Groucho And Me”, p.108, Da Capo Press

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• The heart is as important as the head in learning

  K. Patricia Cross

  Learning, Heart, Intelligence

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• The power of generalizing ideas, of drawing comprehensive conclusions from individual observations, is the only acquirement, for an immortal being, that really deserves the name of knowledge.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Ideas, Drawing, Names

  Mary Wollstonecraft (1796). “A vindication of the rights of woman: with strictures on political and moral subjects”, p.114

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• The whole world of thought lay unexplored before me, - a world of which I had already caught large and tempting glimpses.

  Lucy Larcom

  Learning, Intelligence, World

  Lucy Larcom (1961). “A New England girlhood”

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• True genius can be identified by the fact that its expression changes the world into something it has never been before.

  David Gerrold

  Assessment, Expression, Intelligence

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• What is important to a relationship is a harmony of emotional roles and not too great a disparity in the general level of intelligence.

  Mirra Komarovsky

  Emotional, Personality, Intelligence

  Mirra Komarovsky (2004). “Women in the Modern World: Their Education and Their Dilemmas”, p.86, Rowman Altamira

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• Who are a little wise the best fools be.

  John Donne

  Wise, Intelligence, Littles

  John Donne, Theodore Redpath (2009). “The Songs and Sonets of John Donne”, p.18, Harvard University Press

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• If the outer world is diminished in its grandeur, then the emotional, imaginative, intellectual, and spiritual life of the human is diminished or extinguished. Without the soaring birds, the great forests, the sounds and coloration of the insects, the free-flowing streams, the flowering fields, the sight of clouds by day and the stars at night, we become impoverished in all that makes us human.

  Thomas Berry

  Spiritual, Stars, Night

  Thomas Berry (2011). “The Great Work: Our Way into the Future”, p.200, Crown

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• I do not mean to be the slightest bit critical of TV newspeople, who do a superb job, considering that they operate under severe time constraints and have the intellectual depth of hamsters. But TV news can only present the "bare bones" of a story; it takes a newspaper, with its capability to present vast amounts of information, to render the story truly boring.

  Dave Barry

  Jobs, Mean, Tv News

  Dave Barry (2009). “Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus”, p.219, Ballantine Books

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• Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or intellectual beauty. Moral beauty has a tendency to decay very rapidly into sententiousness or untimeliness.

  Susan Sontag

  Beauty, Art, Decay

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• Healing requires far more of us than just the participation of our intellectual and even our emotional resources. And it certainly demands that we do more than look backwards at the dead-end archives of our past. Healing is, by definition, taking a process of disintegration of life and transforming into a process of return to life.

  Caroline Myss

  Life, Healing, Past

  Caroline Myss (2009). “Defy Gravity: Healing Beyond the Bounds of Reason”, p.16, Hay House, Inc

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• RELIGION: A set of beliefs held as dogmas, dominating the conduct of life, going beyond or contrary to evidence, and inculcated by methods which are emotional or authoritarian, not intellectual.

  Bertrand Russell

  God, Emotional, Religion

  Bertrand Russell, Richard A. Rempel, Beryl Haslam (2000). “Uncertain Paths to Freedom: Russia and China, 1919-22”, p.197, Psychology Press

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• [R]ights do not belong to men simply as men, but because of the superior qualities, physical, intellectual, moral or political, which are characteristic of certain individuals or races.

  Charles Edward Merriam

  Men, Rights, Race

  Charles Edward Merriam (1928). “A History of American Political Theories”, p.248, Transaction Publishers

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• I was taught that the world had a lot of problems; that I could struggle and change them; that intellectual and material gifts brought the privilege and responsibility of sharing with others less fortunate; and that service is the rent each of us pays for living - the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time or after you have reached your personal goals.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Struggle, Responsibility, Volunteer

  David Halberstam, Marian Wright Edelman, Sadako N. Ogata (1991). “Japan & the U.S.: where are we today?”

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