Intellectual Quotes - Page 3

• The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

  Thomas Sowell

  Mean, Technology, Opposites

  Thomas Sowell (1996). “Knowledge And Decisions”, p.10, Basic Books

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• Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in 19th-century France and England, or 20th-century Russia and America.

  Lillian Hellman

  Russia, Class, America

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• Notwithstanding the fact that the most innovative and progressive space we've seen - the Internet - has been the place where intellectual property has been least respected. You know, facts don't get in the way of this ideology.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Space, Way, Facts

  "Code + Law: An Interview with Lawrence Lessig". Interview with Tim O'Reilly and Richard Koman, www.openp2p.com. January 29, 2001.

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• A person who speaks cleverly is witty; one who asks questions is smart.

  Terry Carr

  Witty, Smart, Learning

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• We were proposing, in a sense, that the rest of the world be made safe for American ideas, as they adopted intellectual property rights that gave patent protection to our very innovative economy.

  Jeffrey Sachs

  Ideas, Rights, Safe

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• All of our life is but a mass of small habits - practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual - that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.

  William James

  Spiritual, Military, Destiny

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• I've never been an intellectual but I have this look.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Humor, Intelligent

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• The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.

  Noam Chomsky

  Responsibility, Intelligent, Power

  Interview on BBC's "The Late Show", November 25, 1992.

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• My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.

  Billy Connolly

  Funny, Music, Witty

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• Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Philosophy, Believe, Healing

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• Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.

  John F. Kennedy

  Motivational, Fitness, Health

  "Sport at the New Frontier: The Soft American". Sports Illustrated Vol. 13, Issue 26, (pp. 14-17), December 26, 1960.

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• Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Leadership, Integrity, Character

  Lewis H. Lapham (1985). “High Technology and Human Freedom”

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• What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.

  Thomas Mann

  Eugenics, Ideas, Long

  "The War and the Future". Speech in 1940. "Order of the Day: Political Essays and Speeches of Two Decades". Book by Thomas Mann, 1942.

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• The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.

  John Ruskin

  Education, Mean, Government

  John Ruskin “Fors clavigera”

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• Elegance isn't solely defined by what you wear. It's how you carry yourself, how you speak, what you read.

  Carolina Herrera

  Fashion, Self Esteem, Reading

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• The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Reality, Men, Facts

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• The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance.

  Robert Bork

  Religious, Believe, Views

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• The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.

  George Orwell

  Intelligent, Men, Personality

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.130, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I've been called many things, but never an intellectual.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Intelligent

  Tallulah Bankhead (1952). “Tallulah: My Autobiography”, p.303, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

  Out of My Later Life 517

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• The trouble with a lot of artists today is that they have too much technique and equipment. They don't know what to do with it all. If you cut down on it, you can work more strongly within narrower limits.

  Alexander Calder

  Success, Cutting, Artist

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• (A unified) 'Europe' is the result of plans. It is, in fact, a classic utopian project, a monument to the vanity of intellectuals, a programme whose inevitable destiny is failure: only the scale of the final damage done is in doubt.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Failure, Destiny, Europe

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• People recognize intellectual property the same way they recognize real estate. People understand what property is. But it's a new kind of property, and so the understanding uses new control surfaces. It uses a new way of defining the property.

  Michael Nesmith

  Real, People, Understanding

  Interview with Ken Plume, asitecalledfred.com. 2003.

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• Americans have been selling this view around the world: that progress comes from perfect protection of intellectual property.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Views, Perfect, Progress

  "Code + Law". Interview with Tim O'Reilly, www.openp2p.com. January 29, 2001.

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• It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.

  David Attenborough

  Beauty, Nature, Earth Day

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