Intellectual Quotes - Page 24

• I think what drives scientists is this tremendous intellectual adventure - pushing the boundaries of knowledge, walking down a track that nobody has walked down before, not knowing what's around the corner and then seeing a landscape that is so extraordinarily beautiful and complex, being part of the community that is driving the boundaries of knowledge and giving us insight into the amazing process of life.

  Suzanne Cory

  Beautiful, Motivation, Adventure

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• When the nazis came to power, I looked to the universities that prided themselves upon their intellectual freedom, and they failed me. I looked to the German press, which prided itself on the freedom of the press, and it failed me. Until at last the churches stood alone, and that for which I once had little regard earned my respect.

  Albert Einstein

  Business, Society, Church

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• Anyone who says that life matters less to an animal than it does to us has not held in his hands an animal fighting for its life. The whole of the being of the animal is thrown into that fight, without reserve. When you say that the fight lacks a dimension of intellectual or imaginative horror, I agree. It is not the mode of being animals to have an intellectual horror: their whole being is in the living flesh...I urge you to walk, flank to flank, beside the beast that is prodded down the chute to his executioner.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Fighting, Animal, Hands

  J. M. Coetzee (2016). “The Lives of Animals: The Lives of Animals [Princeton Classics]”, p.65, Princeton University Press

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• In living in the world by his own will and skill, the stupidest peasant or tribesman is more competent than the most intelligent worker or technician or intellectual in a society of specialists.

  Wendell Berry

  Work, Intelligent, Skills

  Wendell Berry (2015). “The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture”, p.26, Counterpoint

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• All fiction, if it's successful, is going to appeal to the emotions. Emotion is really what fiction is all about. That's not to say fiction can't be thoughtful, or present some interesting or provocative ideas to make us think. But if you want to present an intellectual argument, nonfiction is a better tool. You can drive a nail with a shoe but a hammer is a better tool for that. But fiction is about emotional resonance, about making us feel things on a primal and visceral level.

  George R. R. Martin

  Writing, Successful, Thinking

  "A conversation with Game of Thrones author George RR Martin". Interview, www.smh.com.au. August 1, 2011.

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• When I talk to anyone or read the writings of anyone who has any axe to grind, I feel that intellectual honesty and balanced judgement have simply disappeared from the face of the earth. Everyone's thought is forensic, everyone is simply putting a "case" with deliberate suppression of his opponent's point of view, and, what is more, with complete insensitiveness to any sufferings except those of himself and his friends.

  George Orwell

  Honesty, Writing, Views

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• I can see the carrot at the end of the tunnel.

  Stuart Pearce

  Soccer, Football, Tunnels

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• I always used to put my right boot on first, and then obviously my right sock.

  Barry Venison

  Soccer, Football, Boots

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• Algebra is the intellectual instrument which has been created for rendering clear the quantitative aspects of the world.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Teaching, Math, World

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• Chess is something more than a game. It is an intellectual diversion which has certain artistic qualities and many scientific elements.

  Jose Raul Capablanca

  Games, Quality, Elements

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• I have always disliked the fierce competitive spirit embodied in that highly intellectual game.

  Albert Einstein

  Games, Chess, Spirit

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• Chess is a fighting game which is purely intellectual and includes chance.

  Richard Reti

  Fighting, Games, Chess Game

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• For me, the ultimate form of expression is blues, where jazz appeals to me on an intellectual level.

  Scott Henderson

  Player, Expression, Levels

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• The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing ball. In a word, I have tried to be objective. What I mean by objectivity is not the objectivity of a machine, but of a sensible human being with the mystery of personal selection at the heart of it. The second challenge has been to impose order onto the things seen and to supply the visual context and the intellectual framework - that to me is the art of photography.

  Berenice Abbott

  Photography, Art, Mean

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• Well, I do think, particularly the way I work, the better images occur when you're moving to the fringes of your own understanding. That's where self-doubt and risk taking are likely to occur. It's when you trust what's happening at a non-intellectual non-conscious level that you can produce work that later resonates, often in a way that you can't articulate a response to.

  Jerry Uelsmann

  Photography, Moving, Thinking

  "Master Interview; Jerry Uelsmann". Interview with Chris Maher and Larry Berman, www.shutterbug.com. September 1, 2007.

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• Ability to see the cultural value of wilderness boils down, in the last analysis, to a question of intellectual humility. The shallow-minded modern who has lost his rootage in the land assumes that he has already discovered what is important.

  Aldo Leopold

  Humility, Land, Important

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.200, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Teaching is the canny art of intellectual temptation

  Jerome Bruner

  Art, Teaching, Learning

  Jerome Seymour Bruner (1979). “On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand”, p.78, Harvard University Press

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• He said that few people had intellectual resources sufficient to forgo the pleasures of wine. They could not otherwise contrive how to fill the interval between dinner and supper.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wine, People, Dinner

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• When [wines] were good they pleased my sense, cheered my spirits, improved my moral and intellectual powers, besides enabling me to confer the same benefits on other people. (Notes on a Cellar Book)

  George Saintsbury

  Book, Wine, People

  George Saintsbury (2008). “Notes on a Cellar-Book”, p.30, Univ of California Press

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• Any teacher can study books, but books do not necessarily bring wisdom, nor that human insight essential to consummate teaching skills.

  Bliss Perry

  Teacher, Book, Teaching

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• Be different-if you don't have the facts and knowledge required, simply listen. When word gets around that you can listen when others tend to talk, you will be treated as a sage.

  Ed Koch

  Success, Teaching, Intelligence

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• Bear in mind that brains and learning, like muscle and physical skill, are articles of commerce. They are bought and sold. You can hire them by the year or by the hour. The only thing in the world not for sale is character.

  Antonin Scalia

  Teaching, Learning, Character

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• Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence. It is the dishonest businessman's substitute for conscience. It is the communicator's substitute, whether he is advertising man or editor or writer, for self-respect.

  Russell Lynes

  Teaching, Learning, Men

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• Fear is what prevents the flowering of the mind.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Teaching, Assessment, Personality

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2003). “Krishnamurti on Education”, p.40, Krishnamurti Foundation Trust Ltd.

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• Lecturers should remember that the capacity of the mind to absorb is limited to what the seat can endure.

  Evan Esar

  Teaching, Mind, Intelligence

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