Intellectual Quotes - Page 37

• Thought breeds thought; children familiar with great thoughts take as naturally to thinking for themselves as the well-nourished body takes to growing; and we must bear in mind that growth, physical, intellectual, moral, spiritual, is the sole end of education.

  Charlotte Mason

  Spiritual, Children, Thinking

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• Woman's great mission is to train immature, weak and ignorant creatures to obey the laws of God; the physical, the intellectual, the social and the moral.

  Catharine Beecher

  Law, Ignorant, Immature

  Catharine Esther Beecher (1872). “Woman's Profession as Mother and Educator: With Views in Opposition to Woman Suffrage”, p.175

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• Children, by nature, are keen, passionate and curious. What was referred to as laziness is often merely an awakening of sensitivity, a psychological inability to submit to certain absurd duties, and a natural result of the distorted, unbalanced education given to them. This laziness, which leads to an insuperable reluctance to learn, is, contrary to appearances, sometimes proof of intellectual superiority and a condemnation of the teacher.

  Octave Mirbeau

  Teacher, Children, Passionate

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• I sometimes try to imagine what would have happened if we’d known the bonobo first and the chimpanzee only later—or not at all. The discussion about human evolution might not revolve as much around violence, warfare and male dominance, but rather around sexuality, empathy, caring and cooperation. What a different intellectual landscape we would occupy!

  Frans de Waal

  Caring, Empathy, Trying

  Frans de Waal (2006). “Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are”, p.41, Penguin

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• The primary problem is not to provide the public with the knowledge of how far it is to the nearest star and what genes are made of .. Rather, the problem is to get them to reject irrational and supernatural explanations of the world, the demons that exist only in their imaginations, and to accept a social and intellectual apparatus, Science, as the only begetter of truth.

  Richard Lewontin

  Stars, Imagination, World

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• There is one great advantage to being an academic economist in France: here, economists are not highly respected in the academic and intellectual world or by political and financial elites. Hence they must set aside their contempt for other disciplines and their absurd claim to greater scientific legitimacy, despite the fact that they know almost nothing about anything.

  Thomas Piketty

  Discipline, Political, World

  Thomas Piketty (2017). “Capital in the Twenty-First Century”, p.41, Harvard University Press

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• Be not content with the common place in character anymore than with the commonplace in ambition or intellectual attainment. Do not expect that you will make any lasting or very strong impression on the world through intellectual power without the use of an equal amount of conscience and heart.

  William Jewett Tucker

  Strong, Heart, Ambition

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• The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - taking an intellectual form.

  Chauncey Wright

  Philosophy, Desire, Emotion

  Chauncey Wright (2003). “Philosphical Discussions”, p.50, A&C Black

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• Let's call this then, only half facetiously, a new patristic, in which the intellectual is charged with the task not only to denounce error and unmask illusions, and not only to incarnate the mechanisms of new practices of knowledge, but also, together with others in a process of co-research, to produce a new truth. -- Commonwealth, 118

  Michael Hardt

  Errors, Practice, Together

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• It is easy enough to write and talk about God while remaining comfortable within the contemporary intellectual climate. Even people who would call themselves unbelievers often use the word gesturally, as a ready-made synonym for mystery. But if nature abhors a vacuum, Christ abhors a vagueness. If God is love, Christ is love for this one person, this one place, this one time-bound and time-ravaged self.

  Christian Wiman

  Writing, Self, People

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• Science is the greatest creative impulse of our time. It dominates the intellectual scene and forms our lives, not only in the material things which it has given us, but also in that it guides our spirit.

  Polykarp Kusch

  Creative, Spirit, Scene

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• Overprotecting intellectual property is as harmful as underprotecting it. Creativity is impossible without a rich public domain. Nothing today, likely nothing since we tamed fire, is genuinely new: Culture, like science and technology, grows by accretion, each new creator building on the works of those who came before. Overprotection stifles the very creative forces it's supposed to nurture.

  Alex Kozinski

  Creativity, Technology, Fire

  White v. Samsung Electronics America, Inc., 989 F.2d 1512 (9th Cir. 1993), March 18, 1993.

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• Nasr combines in his writing audacious intellectual criticism, deep understanding of Islam... and a commitment to the Western-European contributions to the emancipation of the human condition.

  Mohammed Arkoun

  Writing, Commitment, Deep Understanding

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• Imprisonment in the contemporary is the worst of all intellectual tyrannies.

  Weston La Barre

  Tyranny, Worst, Contemporary

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• I think we have the wrong notion of commercial and intellectual or artistic film. Because all films are commercial.

  Luc Besson

  Thinking, Artistic, Film

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Elegance? It may seem odd to non-scientists, but there is an aesthetic in software as there is in every other area of intellectual endeavour. Truly great programmers are like great poets or great mathematicians - they can achieve in a few lines what lesser mortals can only approach in three volumes

  John Naughton

  Three, Lines, May

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• The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement.

  Anna Garlin Spencer

  Block, Ambition, Achievement

  Anna Garlin Spencer (1908). “Woman's Share in Social Culture”

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• Open source is an intellectual-property destroyer, I can't imagine something that could be worse than this for the software business and the intellectual-property business.

  Jim Allchin

  Imagine, Source, Software

  "Microsoft exec calls open source a threat to innovation". www.cnet.com. February 7, 2002.

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• The symbiotic relationship between reading and writing is a cornerstone of our individual intellectual journey and our educational system. We write as an act of self-expression. We read because language renders unto us the vitality of real and imagined experience.

  Marita Golden

  Educational, Real, Reading

  Marita Golden (2011). “The Word: Black Writers Talk About the Transformative Power of Reading and Writing”, p.5, Broadway Books

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• Ward Churchill might be more valuable to the opponents of the academic left employed than unemployed. Above all, he can serve as a living window into the intellectual, moral, and political bankruptcy of the left.

  Mort Kondracke

  Political, Opponents, Might

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• This ceremony and the intellectual aura associated with the Nobel Prizes have grown from the wisdom of a practical chemist who wrote a remarkable will.

  Stanford Moore

  Wisdom, Auras, Nobel

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• The measure of our intellectual capacity is the capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better and better problems.

  C. West Churchman

  Math, Answers, Problem

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• Calculus is the outcome of a dramatic intellectual struggle which has lasted for twenty-five hundred years.

  Richard Courant

  Struggle, Years, Statistics

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• There is no study in the world which brings into more harmonious action all the faculties of the mind than [mathematics], ... or, like this, seems to raise them, by successive steps of initiation, to higher and higher states of conscious intellectual being.

  James Joseph Sylvester

  Math, Mind, World

  James Joseph Sylvester (1869). “Address to the Mathematical and Physical Section of the British Association, Exeter, August 19th, 1869”, p.6

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• Steve Martin is one of the most intelligent, well-read human beings that I've ever come across. He is equally as funny off screen as he is on. But he also has a very intellectual side, and he's a really nice human being. We actually become good friends.

  Anthony LaPaglia

  Nice, Good Friend, Intelligent

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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