Intellectual Quotes - Page 25

• Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well.

  Alexander Pope

  Teaching, Intelligence, Wells

  Alexander Pope, William Roscoe (1847). “The works of Alexander Pope, esq., with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author, an Estimate of his poetical character and writings, and occasional remarks by William Roscoe, esq”, p.319

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• Let us by wise and constitutional measures promote intelligence among the people as the best means of preserving our liberties.

  James Monroe

  Wise, Teaching, Mean

  James Monroe (199?). “The Writings of James Monroe: 1817-1823”

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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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• 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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• The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.

  Frederick Douglass

  Teaching, Intelligence, Mind

  Frederick Douglass, Milton Meltzer (1995). “Frederick Douglass, in his own words”, Harcourt Children's Books

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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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• They don't tell you this in school, Everybody plays the fool.

  Smokey Robinson

  Success, Teaching, School

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• To be sure, it is not the fruits of scientific research that elevate a man and enrich his nature, but the urge to understand, the intellectual work, creative or receptive.

  Albert Einstein

  Nature, Science, Men

  Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.171, Open Road Media

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• The art of life lies in taking pleasures as they pass, and the keenest pleasures are not intellectual, nor are they always moral.

  Aristippus

  Art, Sex, Lying

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• Some of the most serious fallacies of traditional economics have been due to confusion between optimum and equilibrium conditions; the apparent influence of Dr. Pangloss upon the development of economic thought is for the most part nothing but pure intellectual error.

  Sir John Richard Hicks

  Errors, Confusion, Drs

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• Modern economics is sick. Economics has increasingly become an intellectual game played for its own sake and not for its practical consequences for understanding the economic world. Economists have converted the subject into a sort of social mathematics in which analytical rigour is everything and practical relevance is nothing.

  Mark Blaug

  Games, Sick, Understanding

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• As a cultural-intellectual power and a moral ideal, collectivism died in World War II. If we are still rolling in its direction, it is only by the inertia of a void and the momentum of disintegration. A social movement that began with the ponderous, brain-cracking, dialectical constructs of Hegel and Marx, and ends up with a horde of morally unwashed children stamping their foot and shrieking: "I want it now is through."

  Ayn Rand

  Children, War, Feet

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.95, Penguin

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• The intellectual's hostility to the businessman presents no mystery, as the two have, by function, wholly different standards. While the businessman's motto is the customer is always right, the intellectual's task is to preserve his perceived standards against the weight of popular opinion.

  Bertrand de Jouvenel

  Philosophy, Two, Political

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• 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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• An artist is a person who has invented an artist.

  Harold Rosenberg

  Artist, Intelligence, Following Your Own Path

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• Any slower and he'd be in reverse.

  Andre-Pierre Gignac

  Intelligence, Reverse

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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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• Education makes a man a more intelligent shoemaker, if that be his occupation, but not by teaching him how to make shoes; it does so by the mental exercise it gives, and the habits it impresses.

  John Stuart Mill

  Teaching, Exercise, Men

  John Stuart Mill (1867). “Inaugural Addresse, Delivered to the University of St. Andrews: Feb. 1st 1867”, p.5

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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 am never afraid of what I know.

  Anna Sewell

  Healing, Personality, Following Your Own Path

  Anna Sewell (1895). “Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse”, p.145

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