Intellectual Quotes - Page 39

• The 'We Have Overcome' generation has run out of intellectual creativity but refuses to leave the political stage.

  Manning Marable

  Running, Creativity, Political

  "Manning Marable obituary" by Michael Carlson, www.theguardian.com. April 4, 2011.

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• What distinguishes [Afropolitans] is a willingness to complicate Africa – namely, to engage with, critique, and celebrate the parts of Africa that mean most to them. Perhaps what most typifies the Afropolitan consciousness is the refusal to oversimplify; the effort to understand what is ailing in Africa alongside the desire to honour what is wonderful, unique. Rather than essentialising the geographical entity, we seek to comprehend the cultural complexity; to honour the intellectual and spiritual legacy; and to sustain our parents’ cultures.

  Taiye Selasi

  Spiritual, Mean, Unique

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• Advocates of knowledge management as the next big thing have advanced the proposition that what companies need is more intellectual capital. While that is undeniably true, its only partly true. What those advocates are forgetting is that knowledge is only useful if you do something with it.

  Jeffrey Pfeffer

  Innovation, Needs, Inquiry

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• I don't want to escape via intellectual ruses – I want affirmations via passionate embraces & you can't have life unless you live it.

  Marsden Hartley

  Passionate, Want, Affirmation

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• Philosophy must never be divorced from action. Unless it is put into practice, philosophy is nothing more than an intellectual game.

  Josei Toda

  Philosophy, Practice, Games

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• From the business point of view—not to overstate it—intellectual property is dead; long live intellectual process. Long live service; long live performance.

  Esther Dyson

  Views, Long, Process

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• If we define 'thought collective' as a community of persons mutually exchanging ideas or maintaining intellectual interaction, we will find by implication that it also provides the special 'carrier' for the historical development of any field of thought, as well as for the given stock of knowledge and level of culture. This we have designated thought style.

  Ludwik Fleck

  Ideas, Community, Historical

  Ludwik Fleck (2012). “Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact”, p.39, University of Chicago Press

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• It seems disingenuous for the intellectual elite of the first world to dwell on the subject of too many babies being born in the second- and third-world nations while virtually ignoring the over-population of cattle and the realities of a food chain that robs the poor of sustenance to feed the rich a steady diet of grain-fed meat.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Baby, Reality, Vegetarianism

  "Beyond Beef: The Rise and Fall of the Cattle Culture". Book by Jeremy Rifkin, 1992.

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• Believe me when I tell you that thrift of time will repay you in after life, with a usury of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams; and that waste of it will make you dwindle, alike in intellectual and moral stature, beyond your darkest reckoning.

  Herbert Gladstone, 1st Viscount Gladstone

  Life, Dream, Believe

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• Man offers himself to God. He stands before Him like the canvas before the painter or the marble before the sculptor. At the same time he asks for His grace, expresses his needs and those of his brothers in suffering. Such a type of prayer demands complete renovation. The modest, the ignorant, and the poor are more capable of this self-denial than the rich and the intellectual.

  Alexis Carrel

  Brother, Prayer, Men

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• But in many orders of beauty, particularly those of the finer arts, it is requisite to employ much reasoning, in order to feel the proper sentiment; and a false relish may frequently be corrected by argument and reflection. There are just grounds to conclude, that moral beauty partakes of this latter species, and demands the assistance of our intellectual faculties, in order to give it a suitable influence on the human mind.

  David Hume

  Art, Reflection, Order

  David Hume, J. B. Schneewind (1983). “An Enquiry Concerning The Principles of Morals”, p.15, Hackett Publishing

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• There is a vast difference between intellectual belief and the total conversion that saves the soul.

  Billy Graham

  Christian, Differences, Soul

  Billy Graham (2009). “Graham 2in1 (Angels/Peace With God)”, p.178, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Overcoming complacency is crucial at the start of any change process, and it often requires a little bit of surprise, something that grabs attention at more than an intellectual level. You need to surprise people with something that disturbs their view that everything is perfect.

  John P. Kotter

  Views, People, Perfect

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• A man must not only have faith but intellectual faith too. To make a man take up everything and believe it, would be to make him a lunatic.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Faith, Believe, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2205, Manonmani Publishers

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• Having confidence in a free society is to focus on the process of discovery in the marketplace of values rather than to focus on some imposed vision or goal. Using governmental force to impose a vision on others is intellectual sloth and typically results in unintended, perverse consequences. Achieving the free society requires courage to think, to talk, and to act - especially when it is easier to do nothing.

  Ken Schoolland

  Freedom, Thinking, Discovery

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• ... there is an irrational, cultish tendency in many intellectual movements, and Objectivism, alas, is no exception. Ayn Rand's personal obsession with loyalty did little to discourage this trend.... Rand had often protested, 'Protect me from my followers!'

  Nathaniel Branden

  Loyalty, Followers, Movement

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• At George Mason University I saw Hoppe present a lecture in which he claimed that Ludwig von Mises had set the intellectual foundation for not only economics, but for ethics, geometry, and optics, as well. This bizarre claim turned a serious scholar and profound thinker into a comical cult figure, a sort of Euro Kim Il Sung.

  Tom G. Palmer

  Profound, Foundation, Kim Il Sung

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• The public school system: "Usually a twelve year sentence of mind control. Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism and compromise, destroying the exercise of intellectual inquiry, twisting it instead into meek subservience to authority." - Walter Karp, Editor Harper's Magazine
  The ground of liberty is to be gained by inches, and we must be contented to secure what we can get from time to time and eternally press forward for what is yet to get. It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Crush, Creativity, School

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• It was the transmutation of the classical liberal intellectual foundation by Christianity that gave modern Europe its impetus and that pushed European accomplishment so far ahead of all other cultures and civilizations around the world.

  Charles A. Murray

  Europe, Other Cultures, Civilization

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• Tell me I'm beautiful, it's nothing. Tell me I'm intellectual - I know it. Tell me I'm funny and it's the greatest compliment in the world anyone could give me.

  Julie Newmar

  Beautiful, Giving, World

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• To win in the game of life, we all need both a healthy mind and body. By involving children in the fun and dynamic fitness programs offered by Len Saunders, we help them maximize not only their physical potential, but more importantly their intellectual potential. You don't need to be an outstanding athlete to be physically fit - you just need to participate. This book is an outstanding reference for parents and educators alike who want to promote better health for our children.

  Digger Phelps

  Children, Fun, Book

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• Men are not narrow in their intellectual interests by nature; it takes special and rigorous training to accomplish that end.

  Jacob Viner

  Men, Training, Special

  Jacob Viner (2014). “Essays on the Intellectual History of Economics”, p.394, Princeton University Press

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• Punk rock really came out of N.Y. as a philosophy before the groups were ever recorded. I had a kind-of intellectual interest in the idea of creating a new scene that could be a grassroots thing.

  Greg Ginn

  Philosophy, Rocks, Ideas

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• One of the things that characterizes good intellectual work is a certain self-importance

  Whitfield Diffie

  Self, Certain, Importance

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• If you have insight, you use your inner eye, your inner ear, to pierce to the heart of things, and have no need of intellectual knowledge.

  Zhuangzi

  Heart, Knowledge, Eye

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