Top 1200 Intellectual Growth Quotes & Sayings - Page 11

Squareness is such a uniquely intellectual disease.

An intellectual carrot - the mind boggles.

The steep ride up the and down the energy curve is the most abnormal thing that has ever happened in human history. Most of human history is a no-growth situation. Our culture is built on growth and that phase of human history is almost over and we are not prepared for it. Our biggest problem is not the end of our resources. That will be gradual. Our biggest problem is a cultural problem. We don't know how to cope with it.

I write out of my intellectual experience.

I do have a peripatetic and active intellectual curiosity.

I don't come from an intellectual family.

Philadelphia is a depressing intellectual slum

A form of intellectual productiveness, therein lies its peculiar charm. Intellectual productiveness is one of the greatest joys - if not the greatest one - of human existence. It is not everyone who can write a play, or build a bridge, or even make a good joke. But in chess everyone can, everyone must be intellectually productive, and so can share in this select delight. I have always a slight feeling of pity for the man who has no knowledge of chess, just as I would pity the man who has remained ignorant of love. Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy.

All intellectual missionaries tend to lechery.

Moral certainty is intellectual immorality

We started this mostly from an intellectual place.

I know that every difficulty we face in life, even those that come from our own negligence or even transgression, can be turned by the Lord into growth experiences, a virtual ladder upward. I certainly do not recommend transgression as a path to growth. It is painful, difficult, and so totally unnecessary. It is far wiser and so much easier to move forward in righteousness. But through proper repentance, faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, and obedience to His commandments, even the disappointment that comes from transgression can be converted into a return to happiness.

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.

Intellectual ascent to correct doctrine is not salvation

Mathematics is persistent intellectual honesty.

Intellectual modesty is humility as to what I know; intellectual humility is modesty as to what I do not know

I've never been an intellectual but I have this look.

Religions, themselves, are (intellectual) blasphemies.

I like to think of myself as fairly intellectual.

Virtually throughout its history, and certainly in the 20th century, California has been known as the place to go for dynamism and growth. It did not become the richest, most populous, and most productive state solely because of its weather and natural resources. So it takes a lot to turn California around from growth to contraction, from people moving into the state to a net exodus from the state, from business moving into California to businesses leaving California. It takes some doing. And the Left has done it.

I'm not what you call your basic intellectual.

Intellectual activity is a danger to the building of character.

Education spurs growth and unlocks potential. After all, a single year of primary education creates a 10 to 20 percent increase in a woman's wages later in life. Education lowers the risk of disease and decreases the likelihood that a child will fall into violence and crime. And a child born to a literate mother is 50 percent more likely to survive past age five. No country has achieved sustained growth without at least 40 percent literacy for its adults.

I'm not like a high intellectual.

I'm not expecting a big sell-off but I do think that if we don't have a move toward economic growth and policies that will promote economic growth and get us out of this 2 percent world - we really need to see 4 percent, 5 percent - to see jobs created, and if we don't see that longer-term, yeah the market will sell-off...[but] I do think things are getting better. It's just been very slow.

I don't like the intellectual label.

The man was such an intellectual he was of almost no use.

A woman can be beautiful as well as intellectual.

All genuinely intellectual work is humorous.

Intellectual freedom depends upon material things.

The intellectual imagination! With me all or not at all. NON SERVIAM!

I was an intellectual groupie. Still am.

People have to respect intellectual property.

I'm not like a high intellectual. That's the thing.

All intellectual improvement arises from leisure.

Voting is as much an emotional act as it is an intellectual one.

I've never professed to be an intellectual. I don't try to be.

Who dares to be intellectual in the presence of death?

It's usually only the intellectual ones who understand what's going on in what I do.

Commonplaces are the tramways of intellectual transportation.

To be intellectual does not require one to be alienated and oppositional.

There is no need for propaganda to be rich in intellectual content.

HALE, with a tasty love of intellectual pursuit

An intellectual hatred is the worst.

An intellectual hate is the worst.

All in the Family was intellectual; it was art.

Cynicism is only intellectual sloth.

What is mind but motion in the intellectual sphere?

There is so much closed-mindedness, there is so much closed-off thought, there is so much bigotry and prejudice within knowledge that it, I think, is stunting the actual intelligence growth of our population. Not our capabilities but our actual intelligence growth because all of the stigma that's attached to people that don't have formal educations as opposed to those who do. But the people that have formal educations have been programmed and indoctrinated in many cases, not in all the disciplines.

Great sport has intellectual beauty.

We could become quite satisfied with ourselves because we are sitting in meditation and are endeavoring to practice the spiritual path. Such satisfaction with ourselves is not the same as contentment. Contentment is necessary, self-satisfaction is detrimental. To be content has to include knowing we are in the right place at the right time to facilitate our own growth. But to be self-satisfied means that we no longer realize the need for growth. All these aspects are important parts of our commitment and makes us into one whole being with a one-pointed direction.

To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.

In chess there is a world of intellectual values.

[Our understanding is] not intellectual, but instinctive.

Intellectual passion dries out sensuality.

Cynicism is intellectual treason.

First the stalk — then the roots. First the need — then the means to satisfy that need . First the nucleus — then the elements needed for its growth. The seed is a primary cause. The need, the nucleus, both are primary causes. Conditions — they are secondary. Given enough life in the nucleus, it will draw to itself the necessary means for growth regardless of conditions.

Is there intellectual life in America? At present, the answer is no.

Atheism is an exercise in intellectual contempt.

Intellectual understanding blocks empathy.