Intellectual Quotes - Page 31

• 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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• I do not believe that every person, in every walk of life, can succeed in spite of any handicap. That would be perfection. But I do believe that what I was able to attain came to be because we put behind us (no matter how slowly) the dogmas of the past: to discover the truth of today; and perhaps the greatness of tomorrow.

  Jackie Robinson

  Success, Believe, Past

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• I know a lot of people think I'm dumb. Well, at least I ain't no educated fool.

  Leon Spinks

  Education, Thinking, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If the minds of women were enlightened and improved, the domestic work would be more frequently refreshed by intelligent conversation, a means of edification now deplorably neglected, for want of that cultivation which these intellectual advantages would confer.

  Sarah Moore Grimke

  Mean, Intelligent, Intelligence

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• Nothing spoils a good party like a genius.

  Elsa Maxwell

  Party, Intelligence, Genius

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• One of the things that Ivar knew about Mrs. Walker was that she would only tell him what she knew if he asked the right question, so he spent a portion of his time meditating over what he might ask Mrs. Walker and how he might phrase the question.

  Jane Smiley

  Intelligence, Might, Phrases

  Jane Smiley (1995). “Moo”, Knopf

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• The admission fee was a viper's tongue and a half-concealed stiletto. It was a sort of intellectual slaughterhouse.

  Groucho Marx

  Intelligence, Tongue, Vipers

  Groucho Marx (2009). “Groucho And Me”, p.108, Da Capo Press

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• The heart is as important as the head in learning

  K. Patricia Cross

  Learning, Heart, Intelligence

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• The power of generalizing ideas, of drawing comprehensive conclusions from individual observations, is the only acquirement, for an immortal being, that really deserves the name of knowledge.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Ideas, Drawing, Names

  Mary Wollstonecraft (1796). “A vindication of the rights of woman: with strictures on political and moral subjects”, p.114

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• The whole world of thought lay unexplored before me, - a world of which I had already caught large and tempting glimpses.

  Lucy Larcom

  Learning, Intelligence, World

  Lucy Larcom (1961). “A New England girlhood”

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• True genius can be identified by the fact that its expression changes the world into something it has never been before.

  David Gerrold

  Assessment, Expression, Intelligence

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• We must abandon the prevalent belief in the superior wisdom of the ignorant.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Learning, Ignorant, Intelligence

  "Daniel Boorstin" by Godfrey Hodgson, www.theguardian.com. March 1, 2004.

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• What is important to a relationship is a harmony of emotional roles and not too great a disparity in the general level of intelligence.

  Mirra Komarovsky

  Emotional, Personality, Intelligence

  Mirra Komarovsky (2004). “Women in the Modern World: Their Education and Their Dilemmas”, p.86, Rowman Altamira

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• Who are a little wise the best fools be.

  John Donne

  Wise, Intelligence, Littles

  John Donne, Theodore Redpath (2009). “The Songs and Sonets of John Donne”, p.18, Harvard University Press

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• We do not assert that the capitalist mode of economic calculation guarantees the absolutely best solution of the allocation of factors of production. Such absolutely perfect solutions of any problem are out of reach of mortal men. What the operation of a market not sabotaged by the interference of compulsion and coercion can bring about is merely the best solution accessible to the human mind under the given state of technological knowledge and the intellectual abilities of the age's shrewdest men.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Men, Perfect, Mind

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• Just as characteristic, perhaps, is the intellectual interdependence created through the development of the modern media of communication: post, telegraph, telephone, and popular press.

  Christian Lous Lange

  Communication, Media, Telephones

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