Intellectual Quotes - Page 29

• Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Vacuums, Behinds, Slogans

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• It is difficult to estimate the misery inflicted upon thousands of persons, and the absolute pecuniary penalty imposed upon multitudes of intellectual workers by the loss of their time, destroyed by organ-grinders and other similar nuisances.

  Charles Babbage

  Loss, Nuisance, Misery

  Charles Babbage (1864). “A Chapter on Street Nuisances. [Extracted from "Passages in the Life of a Philosopher."]”, p.8

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• The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes.

  Arthur Miller

  Real, Order, Tasks

  "Federalism and the French Canadians". Book by Pierre Trudeau (p. 175), 1968.

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• One should be intelligent enough to know when not to be too intellectual

  Sol LeWitt

  Intelligent, Enough, Should

  Sol LeWitt (1995). “Sol Lewitt: critical texts”, Power House Books

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• Speaking of a future at most only decades away, an experimenter in intelligence control asserted, “I foresee a time when we shall have the means and therefore, inevitably, the temptation to manipulate the behavior and intellectual functioning of all the people through environmental and biochemical manipulation of the brain.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Mean, People, Temptation

  "Between two ages". Book by Zbigniew Brzezinski, 1970.

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• A form of intellectual productiveness, therein lies its peculiar charm. Intellectual productiveness is one of the greatest joys - if not the greatest one - of human existence. It is not everyone who can write a play, or build a bridge, or even make a good joke. But in chess everyone can, everyone must be intellectually productive, and so can share in this select delight. I have always a slight feeling of pity for the man who has no knowledge of chess, just as I would pity the man who has remained ignorant of love. Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy.

  Siegbert Tarrasch

  Lying, Writing, Men

  Siegbert Tarrasch (2012). “The Game of Chess”, p.11, Courier Corporation

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• Chess is a form of intellectual productiveness, therein lies its peculiar charm. Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy.

  Siegbert Tarrasch

  Lying, Men, Like Love

  The Game of Chess ch. 9 (1931)

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• Intellectual modesty is humility as to what I know; intellectual humility is modesty as to what I do not know

  Tariq Ramadan

  Humility, Modesty, Knows

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• As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted.

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Years, Training, Sixteen

  Mary Augusta Ward (2002). “Marcella”, p.552, Broadview Press

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• English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards of women which has taken place in the last half-century.

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Girl, Education, Taken

  Mary Augusta Ward (2002). “Marcella”, p.552, Broadview Press

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• The reaction against your own thought in itself lends life to thought. How this reaction is born is hard to describe, because it identifies with the very rare intellectual tragedies. The tension, the degree and level of intensity of a thought proceeds from its internal antinomies, which in turn are derived from the unsolvable contradictions of a soul. Thought cannot solve the contradictions of the soul. As far as linear thinking is concerned, thoughts mirror themselves in other thoughts, instead of mirroring a destiny.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Thinking, Destiny, Mirrors

  "The Book of Delusions". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1936.

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• When the Irishman is found outside of Ireland in another environment, he very often becomes a respected man. The economic and intellectual conditions that prevail in his own country do not permit the development of individuality. No one who has any self-respect stays in Ireland, but flees afar as though from a country that has undergone the visitation of an angered Jove.

  James Joyce

  Country, Men, Self

  James Joyce (1959). “Critical writings”

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• Our lives are complex; our emotions are complex; our intellectual desires are complex. I believe that architecture … needs to mirror that complexity in every single space that we have, in every intimacy that we possess.

  Daniel Libeskind

  Motivation, Inspiration, Believe

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• The Philadelphia Museum of Art is a house of artistic and intellectual prostitution

  Albert C. Barnes

  Art, Museums, Philadelphia

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• I found that I faced a highly complex situation, and that I couldnt hope to change it until I had armed myself with the necessary psychological and intellectual capacity. My contemplation of life and human nature in that secluded place had taught me that he who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality, and will never, therefore, make any process.

  Anwar Sadat

  Reality, Taught, Fabric

  Anwar Sadat (1978). “In Search of Identity: An Autobiography”, New York : Harper & Row

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• The information revolution has changed people's perception of wealth. We originally said that land was wealth. Then we thought it was industrial production. Now we realize it's intellectual capital. The market is showing us that intellectual capital is far more important that money. This is a major change in the way the world works. the same thing that happened to the farmers during the Industrial Revolution is now happening to people in industry as we move into the information age.

  Walter Wriston

  Moving, Land, People

  "The Future of Money". Interview with Thomas A. Bass, www.wired.com. October 1, 1996.

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• It is, however, not to the museum, or the lecture-room, or the drawing- school, but to the library, that we must go for the completion of our humanity. It is books that bear from age to age the intellectual wealth of the world.

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Book, School, Museums

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

  Aneurin Bevan

  Personality, Intelligence, Mind

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• Corporately contrived art product replaces inspired intellectual property with ineffectual poperty.

  Vanna Bonta

  Art, Greed, Inspired

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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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• There is no intellectual exercise which is not ultimately useless.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Art, Exercise, Useless

  Jorge Luis Borges (1962). “Ficciones”, p.53, Grove Press

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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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• Children should not be coddled in their intellectual training any more than in their physical; and though the studies should be made interesting the interest should arise out of the studies themselves. We have bred a generation that cannot digest anything intellectual but tablets of peptonized food. One sees that in the popular papers with their brevity, still increasing in brevity as far as brevity can increase, and in the capacity for thought of our rulers.

  Arthur Lynch

  Education, Children, Interesting

  Arthur Lynch (1921). “Moods of Life: Popular Psychological Studies of Affairs of Every Day”

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• Life at university, with its intellectual and inconclusive discussions at a postgraduate level is on the whole a bad training for the real world. Only men of very strong character surmount this handicap.

  Paul Chambers

  Education, Strong, Real

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