Top 1200 Intellectual Growth Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

The contraction of theological influence has been at once the best measure, and the essential condition of intellectual advance.

Where [Albert Camus] is in exile isn't especially in Paris or elsewhere, but from the intellectual world, because of his origins.

I have known people who are working class or craftsmen, who happen to be more intellectual than professors.

Every single human being is creative and maximizing that creativity is critical to happiness and economic growth. Economic growth is driven by creativity, so if we want to increase it, we have to tap into the creativity of everyone. That's what makes me optimistic. For the first time in human history, the basic logic of our economy dictates that further economic development requires the further development and use of human creative capabilities. The great challenge of our time is to find ways to tap into every human's creativity.

A philosopher is a sort of intellectual yokel who gawks at things that sensible people take for granted.

I realized that there was an intellectual content in music, a kind of thinking, that I would never be able to hear.

The intellectual is an individual with a specific public role in society that cannot be reduced simply to . . a faceless professional.

Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.

It is only through the opposition of ideas that we can learn to be self-critical, to work towards intellectual humility.

It is never just disagreement but always intellectual dishonesty that is the apologist's worst enemy. And its apprentice is ignorance.

People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.

The left has so corrupted everything it's touched. Even its highest ranking intellectual members are loony.

Intellectual liberty is the air of the soul, the sunshine of the mind, and without it, the world is a prison, the universe is a dungeon.

Women need a space that quenches their intellectual hunger, engages and empowers them with relatable content.

The intellectual is, quite simply, a human being who has a pencil in his or her hand when reading a book.

Anxiety is the essential condition of intellectual and artistic creation and everything that is finest in human history.

What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!

The true traveller is the one urged to move about for physical, aesthetic, intellectual as well as spiritual reasons.

For a man of my generation, our century has been a long intellectual and political struggle in favor of freedom.

Skepticism . . . is not intellectual only it is moral also, a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul.

The intellectual advancement of man depends on how often he can exchange an old superstition for a new truth.

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

Eternal vigilance, as they say, is the price of freedom. Add intellectual integrity to the cost basis.

The absolute as the idea is neither subjective nor objective; it is the intellectual structure under which they are subsumed.

Loud, stupid and overeating will suffice as long as we also have the funny, the fierce and the intellectual

We really want to see how the idea of an intellectual action movie is received by the world.

[To Aquinas] the senses are what we have in common with dumb animals. ... Our better part [is] the mind ... and [its] intellectual contemplation.

A high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male.

Americans are genuinely and profoundly anti-intellectual. They are especially so in their pleasure-seeking, which is epically banal.

I've always been inspired by artists who have shown musical and intellectual curiosity and the courage to take risks.

We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields.

At heart, Pearson is in the intellectual property business, be it through publishing books or the 'Financial Times'.

A touchstone to determine the actual worth of an "intellectual" - find out how he feels about astrology.

That's a genre that we haven't seen much of for a while. Those action-adventure-comedy, but yet intellectual films.

Self-discipline has a bigger effect on academic performance than does intellectual talent.

We bring together the best ideas - turning the meetings of our top managers into intellectual orgies.

It's really funny seeing all these media depictions of me as an intellectual because I'm a connoisseur of low culture.

An abyss seems to have opened between the intellectual cosmopolites of culture and the people, hungry for word and meaning.

When I start writing songs and it turns into an overly belabored intellectual process, I just throw it out.

The universe was a vast machine yesterday, it is a hologram today. Who knows what intellectual rattle we'll be shaking tomorrow.

Transparency is not the same as looking straight through a building: it's not just a physical idea, it's also an intellectual one.

Where questions of religion are concerned, people are guilty of every possible sort of dishonesty and intellectual misdemeanor.

I set it down as a maxim, that it is good for a man to live where he can meet his betters, intellectual and social.

If an actor tries to understand too much, he will act in an intellectual and unnatural manner.

I'm no lyrical stylist, you wouldn't pick me for a perfect sentence, and I certainly wouldn't describe my novels as intellectual.

Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development.

I see by the papers that you have once more stirred that pool of intellectual stagnation, the educational convention.

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

There was not an awareness of pop culture in the household. There was a lot of respect for working hard, and for intellectual and professional achievement.

Not by force of arms are civilizations held together, but by subtle threads of moral and intellectual principle.

The intellectual and social climate needed to allow entrepreneurship to thrive will not exist in advanced capitalism.

Distress at losing an object can be as much a frustration at the intellectual mystery of the disappearance as about the loss itself.

Unlike art which contains a message, wine conveys nothing, it has no intellectual or cognitive content

At heart, Pearson is in the intellectual property business, be it through publishing books or the Financial Times.

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

For me photography is not an intellectual process. It is a visual one.... Whether we like it or not, we are involved in a sensual business.

At a certain age some people's minds close up; they live on their intellectual fat.

Nothing is finer for the purposes of great productions than a very gradual ripening of the intellectual powers.

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

It befuddles me why I was offered so many intense, intellectual movies when I don't take myself seriously.