Intellectual Quotes - Page 34

• Intellectual men who quickly wolf down whatever nourishment is necessary for their bodies with a kind of disdain, may be very rational and have a noble intelligence, but they are not men of taste.

  Charles-Augustin de Coulomb

  Men, Intelligence, Noble

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• Let me be the child in the story and declare that the Emperor is naked — or that America is culturally bankrupt.

  Ayn Rand

  Children, America, Naked

  "For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand".

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• But Aristotle's philosophy was the intellect's Declaration of Independence.

  Ayn Rand

  Philosophy, Independence, Declaration

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.18, Penguin

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• The first society in history whose leaders were neither Attilas nor Witch Doctors, a society led, dominated and created by the Producers, was the United States of America.

  Ayn Rand

  Doctors, America, Leader

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.20, Penguin

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• Memory is the primary and fundamental power, without which there could be no other intellectual operation.

  Samuel Johnson

  Memories, Fundamentals, Operations

  Samuel Johnson, Peter Martin (2009). “Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings”, p.78, Harvard University Press

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• Curiosity, earnest research to learn the hidden laws of nature, gladness akin to rapture, as they unfolded to me, are among the earliest sensations I can remember.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Law, Curiosity, Research

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1993). “Frankenstein”, p.30, Wordsworth Editions

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• Nonviolent Communication shows us a way of being very honest, but without any criticism, without any insults, without any put-downs, without any intellectual diagnosis implying wrongness.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Criticism, Diagnosis

  "Teaching Children Compassionately: How Students and Teachers Can Succeed with Mutual Understanding".

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• In a distant age and climate, the tragic scene of the death of Hosein will awaken the sympathy of the coldest reader.

  Edward Gibbon

  Age, Climate, Hussain

  Edward Gibbon, M. Guizot (François) (1854). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.529

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• Great sport has intellectual beauty.

  Rick Carlisle

  Sports, Great Sports

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• Tennis doesn't encourage any kind of intellectual development.

  Jim Courier

  Encouragement, Tennis, Development

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• The world looks a totally different place after two wins. I can even enjoy watching Blind Date or laugh at Noel's House Party.

  Gordon Strachan

  Party, Winning, Two

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• For original ideas to come about, you have to let them percolate under the level of consciousness in a place where we have no way to make them obey our own desires or our own direction. Their random combinations are driven by forces we don't know about.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Ideas, Intelligence, Desire

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• He must have been an incredibly good shot.

  Noel Coward

  Intelligence, Shots, Has Beens

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• He was not so much brain as earwax

  William Shakespeare

  Brain, Intelligence

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• I have always believed the thesis that one's politics and the character of one's intellectual work are inseparable.

  Whitfield Diffie

  Character, Intelligence, Inseparable

  "Prophet Of Privacy". Interview with Steven Levy, www.wired.com. November 1, 1994.

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• Ideas without precedent are generally looked upon with disfavor and men are shocked if their conceptions of an orderly world challenged.

  J Harlen Bretz

  Men, Ideas, Intelligence

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• In computer science, we stand on each other's feet.

  Brian Reid

  Success, Feet, Intelligence

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• In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side-by-side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand.

  Gerald Holton

  Success, Intelligence, Giants

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• It takes a genius to whine appealingly.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Intelligence, Genius

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2010). “A Life in Letters”, p.142, Simon and Schuster

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• Language grows out of life, out of its needs and experiences...Language and knowledge are indissolubly connected; they are interdependent. Good work in language presupposes and depends on a real knowledge of things.

  Anne Sullivan Macy

  Real, Intelligence, Needs

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• Well, the years start coming and they don't stop coming. ?Bet you the rules and I hit the ground running Didn't make sense not to live for fun. Your brain gets smart but your head gets dumb.

  Greg Camp

  Running, Fun, Smart

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• I am an innovator. This is a term of distinction, a term of honor, rather than something to hide or apologize for. Anyone who
  has new or valuable ideas to offer stands outside the intellectual status quo. But the status quo is not a stream, let alone a 'mainstream'.
  It is a stagnant swamp. It is the innovators who carry mankind forward.

  Ayn Rand

  Ideas, Honor, Swamps

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• In the immediate as well as the symbolic sense, in the physical as well as the intellectual sense, we are at any moment those who separate the connected, or connect the separate.

  Georg Simmel

  Moments, Wells, Connected

  Georg Simmel, David Frisby, Mike Featherstone (1997). “Simmel on culture: selected writings”, Sage Publications Ltd

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• Philosophers get attention only when they appear to be doing something sinister - corrupting the youth, undermining the foundations of civilization, sneering at all we hold dear. The rest of the time everybody assumes that they are hard at work somewhere down in the sub-basement, keeping those foundations in good repair. Nobody much cares what brand of intellectual duct tape is being used.

  Richard Rorty

  Civilization, Foundation, Tape

  "Philosophical Convictions". The Nation, June 14, 2004.

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• People who, as children, were intellectually far beyond their parents and therefore admired by them, but who also therefore had to solve their own problems alone. These people, who give us a feeling of their intellectual strength and will power, also seem to demand that we, too, ought to fight off any feeling of weakness with intellectual means. In their presence one feels one cannot be recognized as a person with problems just as they and their problems were unrecognized by their parents, for whom he always had to be strong.

  Alice Miller

  Strong, Children, Mean

  Alice Miller (2008). “The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self, Third Edition”, p.58, Hachette UK

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