Top 1200 Intellectual Growth Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

All religious systems enslave the mind. Certain things are demanded-certain things must be believed-certain things must be done-and the man who becomes the subject or servant of this superstition must give up all idea of indivuality or hope of intellectual growth or progress.

'Smart growth' destroys the environment. 'Dumb growth' destroys the environment. The only difference is that 'smart growth' does it with good taste. It's like booking passage on the Titanic. Whether you go first-class or steerage, the result is the same.

Capitalism with near-full employment was an impressive spectacle. But a growth in wealth is not at all the same thing as reducing poverty. A universal paean was raised in praise of growth. Growth was going to solve all problems. No need to bother about poverty. Growth will lift up the bottom and poverty will disappear without any need to pay attention to it. The economists, who should have known better, fell in with the same cry.

For many decades now - and certainly during my adult life in academe - the Western intellectual world has not been convinced that theology is a pursuit that can be engaged in with intellectual honesty and integrity.

We're intellectual opposites. Well, I'm intellectual and you're opposite.

Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.

But ultimately what I was impressed by during my years in government was how much the intellectual climate and the prevailing intellectual notions constrained and represented the universe within which the discourse took place.

I think growth is a big part of everything, it think even growth for Brooklyn, growth for Downtown Brooklyn is good.

There are people out there who don't see value in intellectual property, and so they're always going to have a problem if there are lawsuits involving intellectual property.

If you see a market that has slow and steady growth long enough, you'll start to front-run it, and that slow and steady growth will start turning into steeper growth, and that will accelerate the process.

You balance the budget by restraining the growth of government and encouraging the growth of the private sector.

To contribute to the emergence of a society in which development will supplant stagnation, in which growth will take the place of decay, and in which culture will put an end to barbarism is the noblest, and, indeed, the only true function of intellectual endeavor.

What we call 'economic growth' is in fact a growth in waste and a decline in the health of natural habitat

Growth makes so many dimensions of management easier. It's when growth stops that things get tough.

There is nothing wrong with intellectual differences flowing from freedom of thought as long as such differences remain confined to intellectual debates.

Economic growth must be the central issue because it is only through growth that the devastating threat of national bankruptcy can be averted. Furthermore, it is only by reviving American economic growth that the West's global predominance can be sustained, and peace and freedom kept secure around the world.

If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.

Africa is experiencing rising rates of growth, but will growth get translated into development?

I'm not interested in the fact that a writer may label himself as being intellectual or anti-intellectual. l'm really interested in the stuff he's turning out.

Collaboration operates through a process in which the successful intellectual achievements of one person arouse the intellectual passions and enthusiasms of others.

Whatever the intellectual is too certain of, if he is healthily playful, he begins to find unsatisfactory. The meaning of his intellectual life lies not in the possession of truth but in the quest for new uncertainties.

The combination of population growth and the growth in consumption is a danger that we are not prepared for and something we will need global co-operation on.

I am not an intellectual. An intellectual is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso, whereas I just say 'pass the mustard'.

I think that a failure of statistical thinking is the major intellectual shortcoming of our universities, journalism and intellectual culture.

I want everyone inside of Microsoft to take that responsibility. This is not about top-line growth. This is not about bottom-line growth. This is about us individually having a growth mindset.

It only takes a day to change someone from an anti-intellectual to an intellectual by persuading him that he might be one!

A person looking after a frail former lover is not working and not contributing to economic growth. But if he or she stopped, the state would probably have to take over, thereby adding to growth. So, to increase growth, we should stop looking after our loved ones. Could anybody explain to a passing Martian how this makes sense?

Eco sees the intellectual as an organizer of culture, someone who can run a magazine or a museum. An administrator, in fact. I think this is a melancholy situation for an intellectual.

Where America has got to move is not growth for the sake of growth, but it`s got to move to a society that provides a high quality of life for all of our people. In other words, if people have health care as a right, as do the people of every other major country, then there's less worry about growth. If people have educational opportunity and their kids can go to college and they have child care, then there's less worry about growth for the sake of growth.

The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance.

The English mind is intelligent rather than intellectual. The French are intellectual in the sense that the intellect is emancipated and left free to run its own course.

You must understand that the workout does not actually produce muscular growth. The workout is merely a trigger that sets the body's growth mechanism into motion. It is the body itself, of course, that produces growth; but it does so only during a sufficient rest period.

We have a lack of growth in Europe, in eurozone, and in France, and we are struggling hard to recover and restore this growth.

A combination of very rapid population growth over the last 50 years and reckless economic growth during the same time has stored up massive problems for societies the world over. No nation is immune. The scientific evidence tells us all we need to know: carry on with business-as-usual growth-at-all-costs, and we're stuffed

When we look at the credit growth, we should look at it in its totality. Let us not only look at the non-food bank credit growth but also look at the growth across all the instruments of financing.

I'm an intellectual Thatcherite, just as I was an intellectual Powellite, and I think it important that the Conservative party should be in good hands and that it should win elections.

Growth has failed on its own terms. You can't have infinite growth in a world of finite resources.

People have been convinced that growth for growth's sake is a good thing.

Globally, manufacturing jobs are on the decline, simply because productivity growth has outpaced growth in demand.

When there is growth economically and in industry, I think there should be growth in information also.

The cosmos is structured to bring about growth, and growth is always in the direction of greater love and happiness.

Gingrich is the "foremost intellectual" in the Republican party like Gene Simmons is the foremost intellectual in "Kiss".

All growth, including political growth, is the result of risk-taking.

I don't consider myself an intellectual. And this is not one of my aims. But I admire intellectual people.

There are many non-intellectual countries; Australia is one of the few anti-intellectual ones.

To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.

Economic growth is the key. Economic growth is the key to everything. But once you have economic growth, it is important that we reach out to people who live in the shadows, the people who don't seem to ever think that they get a fair deal.

It is no coincidence that the growth of modern tyrants has in every case been heralded by the growth of prejudice.

The work that leads to a doctor's degree is a constant temptation to sacrifice one's growth as a man to one's growth as a specialist.

Faith is indeed intellectual; it involves an apprehension of certain things as facts; and vain is the modern effort to divorce faith from knowledge. But although faith is intellectual, it is not only intellectual. You cannot have faith without having knowledge; but you will not have faith if you have only knowledge.

If we can get this economy moving and quit doing the things that prohibit growth, Alabama... can sustain that growth.

Raising the minimum wage does not take from growth, it adds to growth.

There is a fundamental law that the tissue of the human body will waste away through idleness and disuse. Conversely, muscles and vessel that are stressed grow and increase in capacity. This same basic law also applies to spiritual and intellectual growth and can be achieved only by continual nourishment and effort in day-to-day living.

Trouble results when the speed of growth exceeds the speed of nurturing human resources. To use the analogy of growth rings in a tree, when unusually rapid growth caused the rings to grow abnormally thick, the tree trunk weakens and is easily broken.

A real fan will accept growth, encourage the growth, and stick with you through thick and thin.

Occasionally, you will be given the chance to be either intellectual or pleasant. Leave being intellectual to others.

I personally think intellectual property is an oxymoron. Physical objects have a completely different natural economy than intellectual goods.

The first law of sustainability: population growth and/or growth in the rate of consumption of resources cannot be sustained

If there's an intellectual highway, there's also an intellectual subway.

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