Intellectual Quotes - Page 36

• We need to understand enough of modern thought to identify the ways it blocks us from living out the Gospel the way God intends, both in terms of intellectual roadblocks and in terms of economic and structural changes that make it harder to live by Scriptural principles.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Block, Principles, Needs

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• A crucial contribution to the ideological argument ...it provides a vital part of the intellectual manifesto on which the battle for a better society can be fought

  Roy Hattersley

  Battle, Argument, Contribution

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• We do not need more material development, we need more spiritual development. We do not need more intellectual power, we need more moral power. We do not need more knowledge, we need more character. We do not need more government, we need more culture. We do not need more law, we need more religion. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen. It is on that side of life that it is desirable to put the emphasis at the present time. If that side be strengthened, the other side will take care of itself.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Spiritual, Character, Government

  Calvin Coolidge (1925). “America's Need for Education: And Other Educational Addresses”

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• It is almost an intellectual tradition to pay heed to the insane. In my case those that I most respect are the morons.

  Henri Michaux

  Insane, Pay, Tradition

  Henri Michaux, Robin Magowan (2001). “Ecuador”, p.57, Northwestern University Press

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• Faith must become more than a verbal proclamation or an intellectual assent. True faith must be acted out.

  Millard Fuller

  Proclamation, True Faith

  Millard Fuller (1995). “Simple Decent Place to Live: The Building Realization of Habitat for Humanity”, p.93, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Intellectuals tend to be arrogant. Intelligence, like money, is a good servant but a bad master. When practicing pranayama, the yogi [makes] himself humble and without pride in his intellectual attainments.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Humble, Pride, Arrogant

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• I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual.

  Rahul Dravid

  Intense, Cricketers

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• Nature first, then theory. Or, better, Nature and theory closely intertwined while you throw all your intellectual capital at the subject. Love the organisms for themselves first, then strain for general explanations, and, with good fortune, discoveries will follow. If they don't, the love and the pleasure will have been enough.

  E. O. Wilson

  Discovery, Firsts, Enough

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• My point is, however, that churches do promote beliefs that would more appropriately find a place in a context of intellectual debate. They wind up cheerleading for highly dubious opinions on historical, scientific, and metaphysical matters, simply on the bases of emotional preference and the inertia of tradition. They demand conformity to these beliefs, and if you cannot swim with the current, then, well partner, maybe you'd be happier in another pool, another lake in fact, the one ablaze with burning sulfur.

  Robert M. Price

  Cheerleading, Emotional, Wind

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• You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.

  George Orwell

  Believe, Political, Politics

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• I call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a passive or hereditary faith, [and] receives new truth as an angel from Heaven.

  Woody Allen

  Angel, Men, Rights

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• TED was simply wonderful, an intellectual spa, a 21st-century Chataqua, superb and singular.

  Kurt Andersen

  Wonderful, Century, Spas

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• Western societies from ancient Athens to imperial Rome to the French republic rarely collapsed because of a shortage of resources or because foreign enemies proved too numerous or formidable in arms - even when those enemies were grim Macedonians or Germans. Rather, in times of peace and prosperity there arose an unreal view of the world beyond their borders, one that was the product of insularity brought about by success, and an intellectual arrogance that for some can be the unfortunate byproduct of an enlightened society.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Views, Rome, Intellectual Arrogance

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• Education should therefore include the two forms of work, manual and intellectual, for the same person, and thus make it understood by practical experience that these two kinds complete each other and are equally essential to a civilized existence.

  Maria Montessori

  Two, Essentials, Kind

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• It is also an absolute mistake to believe that the State can be anything other than a civitas diaboli if it does not resurrect itself as Imperium, and it is also a mistake to want to build the Imperium on the basis of economic, military, industrial or even 'intellectual' or nationalist factors. The Imperium, according to the primordial conception rooted in Tradition, is something transcendent, and it can only be attained by those who have the power to transcend the lives of petty men and their appetites, their sentimentalisms, their national prides, their 'values', and their phobias.

  Julius Evola

  Military, Mistake, Believe

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• A person may be a moron or an imbecile if he is lacking in judgment; but with good judgment he can never be either. Indeed the rest of the intellectual faculties seem of little importance in comparison with judgment.

  Alfred Binet

  May, Littles, Imbeciles

  Alfred Binet (1977). “Significant contributions to the history of psychology: 1750-1920”

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• It seems to us that in intelligence there is a fundamental faculty, the alteration or the lack of which, is of the utmost importance for practical life. This faculty is judgment, otherwise called good sense, practical sense, initiative, the faculty of adapting one's self to circumstances. A person may be a moron or an imbecile if he is lacking in judgment; but with good judgment he can never be either. Indeed the rest of the intellectual faculties seem of little importance in comparison with judgment.

  Alfred Binet

  Self, Fundamentals, May

  "The development of intelligence in children" by Alfred Binet, Théodore Simon, translated by Elizabeth S. Kite, Reprinted 1973, New York: Arno Press, (pp. 42-43), 1983.

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• Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information.

  Kingman Brewster, Jr.

  Sea, Skills, Information

  Address at University of Exeter, October 26, 1978.

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• Give up identification with this mass of flesh as well as with what thinks it a mass. Both are intellectual imaginations. Recognise your true self as undifferentiated awareness, unaffected by time, past, present or future, and enter Peace.

  Adi Shankara

  Giving Up, Thinking, Past

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• The greatest danger to the State is independent intellectual criticism.

  Murray Rothbard

  Independent, Criticism, Danger

  Murray Newton Rothbard (19??). “The Anatomy of the State”, p.25, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• To say that you can 'have experience,' means, for one thing, that your past plays into and affects your present, and that it defines your capacity for future experience. As a social scientist, you have to control this rather elaborate interplay, to capture what you experience and sort it out; only in this way can you hope to use it to guide and test your reflection, and in the process shape yourself as an intellectual craftsman

  C. Wright Mills

  Mean, Reflection, Past

  C. Wright Mills (2000). “The Sociological Imagination”, p.196, Oxford University Press

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• What is more absurd and more impious than to attribute the name of Lucifer to the devil, that is, to personified evil. The intellectual Lucifer is the spirit of intelligence and love; it is the paraclete, it is the Holy Spirit, while the physical Lucifer is the great agent of universal magnetism.

  Eliphas Levi

  Names, Evil, And Love

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• Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.

  Sallust

  Past, Events, Pursuit

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• Human intellectual progress, such as it has been, results from our long struggle to see things 'as they are,' or in the most universally comprehensible way, and not as projections of our own emotions. Thunder is not a tantrum in the sky, disease is not a divine punishment, and not every death or accident results from witchcraft. What we call the Enlightenment and hold on to only tenuously, by our fingernails, is the slow-dawning understanding that the world is unfolding according to its own inner algorithms of cause and effect, probability and chance, without any regard for human feelings.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Struggle, Sky, Punishment

  Barbara Ehrenreich (2009). “Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America”, p.149, Macmillan

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• In fact, there is clear evidence of black intellectual superiority: in 1984, 92 percent of blacks voted to retire Ronald Reagan, compared to only 36 percent of whites.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Black, Facts, Evidence

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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