Intellectual Quotes - Page 32

• The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected.

  George Henry Lewes

  Mean, Self, May

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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• When a small business grows like eBay did, it has a multiplier effect. It creates other small businesses that supply it with intellectual capital, goods and services.

  Meg Whitman

  Ebay, Growth, Small Business

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• Mental slavery is mental death, and every man who has given up his intellectual freedom is the living coffin of his dead soul.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Men, Soul, Individuality

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.103, Library of Alexandria

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• Mystery is an intellectual process... But suspense is essentially an emotional process.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Emotional, Suspense, Mystery

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• There are no moral or intellectual merits. Homer composed the Odyssey; if we postulate an infinite period of time, with infinite circumstances and changes, the impossible thing is not to compose the Odyssey, at least once.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Impossible Things, Merit, Odyssey

  "The Immortal" (1968) (translation by James E. Irby)

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• There's no greater tragedy than an equal intensity, in the same soul or the same man, of the intellectual sentiment and the moral sentiment. For a man to be utterly and absolutely moral, he has to be a bit stupid. For a man to be absolutely intellectual, he has to be a bit immoral.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Stupid, Men, Soul

  Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith (2002). “The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa”, p.302, Grove Press

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• I'm a private intellectual, not a public one.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  "Nassim Taleb: my rules for life". Interview With Carole Cadwalladr, www.theguardian.com. November 24, 2012.

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• The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probable—namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts, the parental and filial affections being here included, would inevitably acquire a moral sense or conscience, as soon as its intellectual powers had become as well, or nearly as well developed, as in man. For, firstly, the social instincts lead an animal to take pleasure in the society of its fellows, to feel a certain amount of sympathy with them, and to perform various services for them.

  Charles Darwin

  Men, Animal, Degrees

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution”, p.5, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Frederick Turner comes across in his poems as a man of impressively broad experience, intellectual brilliance, and originality. … He’s at his best when he unleashes his extraordinary powers of observation.

  Richard Tillinghast

  Men, Originality, Broads

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• Nothing is finer for the purposes of great productions than a very gradual ripening of the intellectual powers.

  John Keats

  Purpose, Ripening, Productions

  John Keats (1914*). “The complete poetical works and letters of John Keats”, p.40, Рипол Классик

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• It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble.

  H. G. Wells

  Law, Trouble, Danger

  H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.79, Delphi Classics

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• The world state must begin; it can only begin, as a propaganda cult, or as a group of propagandist cults, to which men and women must give themselves and their energies, regardless of the consequence to themselves The activities of a cult which sets itself to bring about the world-state would at first be propagandist, they would be intellectual and educational, and only as a sufficient mass of opinion and will had accumulated would they become to a predominant extent politically constructive. Such a cult must direct itself particularly to the teaching of the young.

  H. G. Wells

  Educational, Teaching, Men

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• To my mind, Guernica is the most important online intellectual and literary journal in America today.

  Claire Messud

  America, Mind, Important

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• Suddenly absurdism wasn’t an intellectual abstraction, it was actually realism. You could see the way that wealth was begetting wealth, wealth was begetting comfort — and that the cumulative effect of an absence of wealth was the erosion of grace.

  George Saunders

  Erosion, Grace, Comfort

  George Saunders (2013). “Tenth of December”, p.27, A&C Black

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• There is a close connection between socio-political development, the struggle between social classes and the history of ideologies. In general, intellectual movements closely reflect the trends of economic developments. In communal society, where there are virtually no class divisions, man's productive activities on outlook and culture is less discernible. Account must be taken of the psychology of conflicting classes.

  Kwame Nkrumah

  Taken, Struggle, Men

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• We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields.

  Alan Turing

  Men, Machines, May

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• I wish to note that intellectual property theft by a government represents the very essence of organized crime.

  Howard Berman

  Government, Essence, Wish

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• The true Enlightenment thinker, the true rationalist, never wants to talk anyone into anything. No, he does not even want to convince; all the time he is aware that he may be wrong. Above all, he values the intellectual independence of others too highly to want to convince them in important matters. He would much rather invite contradiction, preferably in the form of rational and disciplined criticism. He seeks not to convince but to arouse - to challenge others to form free opinions.

  Karl Popper

  Free Opinion, Challenges, Independence

  "On Freedom (All Life is Problem Solving)". Essay by Karl Popper, translated by Patrick Camiller, 1994.

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• Friends, we have now won....I say to Aymaras, Quechuas, Chiquitaos, and Guaranis: for the first time we are going to be presidents. And I want to say to businesses, intellectual professionals, and artists: do not abandon us.

  Evo Morales

  Artist, President, Want

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• The writing of the Beatles, or John and Paul's contribution to the Beatles in the late sixties - had a kind of depth to it, a more mature, more intellectual approach. We were different people, we were older. We knew each other in all kinds of different ways than when we wrote together as teenagers and in our older twenties.

  John Lennon

  Music, Teenager, Writing

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• Satan's first strategy is to keep religion intellectual.

  Rick Joyner

  Firsts, Satan, Strategy

  Rick Joyner (1997). “The Surpassing Greatness of His Power”, Whitaker Distribution

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• When your thoughts and opinions become intellectual gods in rebellion against the Word of God, you are in idolatry.

  John Hagee

  Opinion, Rebellion, Word Of God

  John Hagee (1989). “Being Happy in an Unhappy World”

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• Prophet just means intellectual. They were people giving geopolitical analysis, moral lessons, that sort of thing. We call them intellectuals today. There were the people we honor as prophets, there were the people we condemn as false prophets. But if you look at the biblical record, at the time, it was the other way around. The flatterers of the Court of King Ahab were the ones who were honored. The ones we call prophets were driven into the desert and imprisoned.

  Noam Chomsky

  Kings, Mean, Biblical

  "The U.S. Role in the World". Interview with Harry Kreisler, globetrotter.berkeley.edu. March 22, 2002.

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• The joys of theory are the sweetest intellectual pleasures of life

  Ludwig Feuerbach

  Joy, Pleasure, Theory

  Ludwig Feuerbach (2012). “The Essence of Christianity”, p.162, Courier Corporation

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• Intellectual achievement. The exercise of skill. Human feeling.

  Iain Banks

  Exercise, Skills, Achievement

  Iain M. Banks (2008). “The Player Of Games: A Culture Novel”, p.10, Hachette UK

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