Intellectual Quotes - Page 24

• He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Personality, Intelligence, Mind

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• An intellectual hatred is the worst, So let her think opinions are accursed. Have I not seen the loveliest woman born Out of the mouth of Plenty's horn, Because of her opinionated mind Barter that horn and every good By quiet natures understood For an old bellows full of angry wind?

  William Butler Yeats

  Thinking, Wind, Hatred

  Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1920) "A Prayer for My Daughter"

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• Unless you are political or intellectual, events like the Depression are seen as personal events. We thought of the Depression as something that made the pipes freeze; we thought it hit us because Daddy didn't move his taxi stand and because he broke his hip. It was only later I found out it was a national phenomenon.

  Florynce Kennedy

  Depression, Moving, Daddy

  Florynce Kennedy (1976). “Color Me Flo: My Hard Life and Good Times”

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• We can approach belief from an intellectual path, but in the end, God must be taken on faith. Proofs are for things of this world, things in time and of time, not beyond time.

  Dean Koontz

  Faith, Taken, World

  Dean Koontz (2014). “The Odd Thomas Series 7-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd”, p.797, Bantam

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• Any slower and he'd be in reverse.

  Andre-Pierre Gignac

  Intelligence, Reverse

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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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• You want to think about certain styles of music as being reflective of a certain culture or a certain time or a point of view. You don't want it to be just an intellectual exercise.

  Robin Pecknold

  Exercise, Thinking, Style

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• Again and again I am brought up against it, and again and again I resist it: I don't want to believe it, even though it is almost palpable: the vast majority lack an intellectual conscience; indeed, it often seems to me that to demand such a thing is to be in the most populous cities as solitary as in the desert.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Believe, Cities, Majority

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• On those who overanalyze his music: When you tear the wings off a butterfly, it is no longer a butterfly

  Claude Debussy

  Teaching, Butterfly, Assessment

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• If intellectual curiosity, professional pride, and ambition are the dominant incentives to research, then assuredly no one has a fairer chance of gratifying them than a mathematician.

  G. H. Hardy

  Ambition, Pride, Science

  G. H. Hardy, C. P. Snow (2012). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.80, Cambridge University Press

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• Science in England is not a profession: its cultivators are scarcely recognised even as a class. Our language itself contains no single term by which their occupation can be expressed. We borrow a foreign word [Savant] from another country whose high ambition it is to advance science, and whose deeper policy, in accord with more generous feelings, gives to the intellectual labourer reward and honour, in return for services which crown the nation with imperishable renown, and ultimately enrich the human race.

  Charles Babbage

  Country, Ambition, Science

  Charles Babbage (1851). “The Exposition of 1851; or, Views of the industry, the science, and the government of England”, p.189

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• Whatever we believe about ourselves and our ability comes true for us.

  Susan L. Taylor

  Inspirational, Happiness, Success

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• Anecdote: Greatness Means Leading the Way. No stream is large and copious of itself, but becomes great by receiving and leading on so many tributary streams. It is so, also, with all intellectual greatness, It is only a question of someone indicating the direction to be followed by so many affluent; not whether he was richly or poorly gifted originally.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mean, Greatness, Receiving

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• Three sorts of goods, Aristotle specified, contribute to happiness: goods of the soul, including moral and intellectual virtues and education; bodily goods, such as strength, good health, beauty, and sound senses; and external goods, such as wealth, friends, good birth, good children, good heredity, good reputation and the like.

  Sissela Bok

  Happiness, Children, Soul

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• Teach him to think for himself? Oh, my God, teach him rather to think like other people!

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Teaching, Thinking, People

  Quoted in Matthew Arnold, Essays in Criticism, Second Series (1888)

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• Now, as I move through my fifties, I can be professional and domestic, creative and intellectual, patient and urgent. I have learned that we should never settle for someone else's definition of who we can be. Growing to this age, I realize, is kind of like feeling your voice deepen. It's still your voice, but it has more substance, and it sounds like it knows its own origins.

  Susan Sarandon

  Moving, Voice, Creative

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• I wish I knew as much about anything today as I knew about everything when I was twenty.

  Bill Ayers

  Learning, Intelligence, Wish

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• Longevity is the revenge of talent upon genius.

  Cyril Connolly

  Revenge, Intelligence, Genius

  Cyril Connolly (1975). “The evening colonnade”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• Rescue the drowning and tie your shoestrings.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Teaching, Ties, Intelligence

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.124

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• It is, indeed, only in old age that intellectual men attain their sublime expression, whilst portraits of them in their youth show only the first traces of it.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Expression, Sublime

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.194, Simon and Schuster

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• I am convinced that we will never build a democratic state based on rule of law if we do not at the same time build a state that is-regardless of how unscientific this may sound to the ears of a political scientist-humane, moral, intellectual and spiritual, and cultural.

  Vaclav Havel

  Spiritual, Hero, Law

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• Agnosticism is not properly described as a "negative" creed, nor indeed as a creed of any kind, except in so far as it expresses absolute faith in the validity of a principle which is as much ethical as intellectual.

  Thomas Huxley

  Principles, Negative, Kind

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2012). “Lectures and Essays”, p.247, tredition

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• Precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity as to those mysterious powers assumed by others.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Atheism, Weakness, Mysterious

  Charles Caleb Colton (1828). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words Addressed to Those who Think”, p.76

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• The world needs specialists and highly trained people with advanced degrees, no question about it. But the world also needs diversity and versatility. It needs people who know as much about our value system as they do about our solar system.

  Roger Smith

  Teaching, People, Diversity

  U.S. News & World Report Vol 92 (p. 66), 1982.

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