I Quotes
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“Intellectual capital is the most valuable of all factors of production.”
Source: Effective Leadership
“Intellectual capital will always trump financial capital.”
“Intellectual comradeship requires that you think your thoughts through to the place where you can make the complex seem simple, the obscure quite clear.”
“Intellectual controversies tend to be like dog fights without the teeth, in which the barking not the biting does the damage.”
Source: Borges And The Eternal Orang-Utans
“Intellectual culture seems to separate high art from low art. Low art is horror or pornography or anything that has a physical component to it and engages the reader on a visceral level and evokes a strong sympathetic reaction. High art is people driving in Volvos and talking a lot. I just don't want to keep those things separate. I think you can use visceral physical experiences to illustrate larger ideas, whether they're emotional or spiritual. I'm trying to not exclude high and low art or separate them.”
“Intellectual curiosity about one's own illness is certainly born of a desire for mastery. If I couldn't cure myself, perhaps I could at least begin to understand myself.”
Source: The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves
“Intellectual curiosity drove Einstein to some of the world's most important discoveries.”
“Intellectual death is endemic in areas where people are not prepared to gain new information for development. Learning is the intervention!”
Source: The Great Hand Book of Quotes
“Intellectual death is endemic in areas where people are unprepared to obtain new information for development. Learning is a way of staying alive.”
Source: Shaping the dream
“Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.”
Source: Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927-1939
“Intellectual discourse and investigation is admittedly great fun but only truly meaningful when conducted in the service of others.”
Source: A Naked Singularity: A Novel
“Intellectual disgrace
Stares from every human face,
And the seas of pity lie
Locked and frozen in each eye.”
“Intellectual effort gives me enormous pleasure”
“Intellectual elegance [is] a mind that is continually refining itself with education and knowledge. Intellectual elegance is the opposite of intellectual vulgarity.”
“Intellectual fascism lies in the fact that people build relationships with others on the basis of intellect”
Source: The Danger Of Monoculturalism In The XXI Century
“Intellectual food is like any other; it is pleasanter and more beneficial to take it with a spoon than a shovel.”
Source: The Chicago of Europe, and Other Tales of Foreign Travel
“Intellectual force is qualitatively the first and foremost productive force, and concern for its rapid growth should be the ardent concern of all classes.”
“Intellectual freedom begins when one says with Socrates that he knows that he knows nothing, and then goes on to add: Do you know what you don’t know and therefore what you should know? If your answer is affirmative and humble, then you are your own teacher, you are making your own assignment, and you will be your own best critic. You will not need externally imposed courses, nor marks, nor diplomas, nor a nod from your boss . . . in business or in politics. (from the essay The Last Don Rag)”
“Intellectual freedom depends upon material things.”
Source: A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas
“Intellectual freedom is essential -- freedom to obtain and distribute information, freedom for open-minded and unfearing debate and freedom from pressure by officialdom and prejudices. Such freedom of thought is the only guarantee against an infection of people by mass myths, which, in the hands of treacherous hypocrites and demagogues, can be transformed into bloody dictatorship.”
Source: Progress, coexistence, and intellectual freedom
“Intellectual freedom is the only guarantee of a scientific - democratic approach to politics, economic development, and culture.”
“Intellectual freedom means the right to re-examine much that has been long taken for granted. A free man must be a reasoning man, and he must dare doubt what a legislative or electoral majority may most passionately assert.”
“Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing.”
Source: The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde
“Intellectual growth is when you surpass the barrier of puerility, puzzling people with your dazzling creativity.”
“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.”
“Intellectual honesty consists in stating the precise conditions under which one will give up one's belief.”
“Intellectual honesty consists in taking ideas seriously. That means that you intend to live by, to practice, an idea you accept as true”
Source: Philosophy: Who Needs It
“Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of historians; much more than that it does not expect, nor often get.”
Source: By Land and by Sea: Essays and Addresses
“Intellectual honesty means pursuing the truth regardless of whether or not it serves your interests or goals.”
Source: I'm Just Saying: A Guide to Maintaining Civil Discourse in an Increasingly Divided World
“Intellectual, imaginative, romantic, emotional. This is what gives sex its surprising textures, its subtle transformations, its aphrodisiac elements. Sex loses all its power and magic when it becomes explicit, mechanical, overdone, when it becomes a mechanistic obsession. It becomes a bore. You are shrinking your world of sensations. You are withering it, starving it, draining its blood. If you nourished your sexual life with all the excitements and adventures which love injects into sensuality, you would be the most potent human being in the world. The source of sexual power is curiosity, passion. You are watching its little flame die of asphyxiation. Sex does not thrive on monotony. Sex must be mixed with tears, laughter, words, promises, scenes, jealousy, envy, all of the spices of fear, foreign travel, new faces, novels, stories, dreams, fantasies, music, dancing, opium, wine.”
Source: The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Volume 3: 1939-1944
“Intellectual is a parrot; wise man is a crow. One is repetitive; other is creative!”
“Intellectual isolation always follows commercial isolation.”
“Intellectual knowledge exists in and of the brain. Because the brain is part of the body, which must one day expire, this collection of facts, however large and impressive, will expire as well. {But spiritual insight transcends death.}”
“Intellectual labor is a common technique for the avoidance of thinking.”
Source: If You See Me Now
“Intellectual liberty [is] the right to think right and the right to think wrong. Thought is the means by which we endeavor to arrive at truth.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“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.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“Intellectual life on American campuses has, over the course of the past half century, been fundamentally reshaped by the ascendancy of the “identity synthesis.” Inspired by postmodernism, postcolonialism, and critical race theory, a new generation of scholars succeeded in welding a diverse set of influences into one coherent ideology.
Despite the real variation within and between different academic departments, this synthesis is characterized by a widespread adherence to seven fundamental propositions: a deep skepticism about objective truth inspired by Michel Foucault; the use of a form of discourse analysis for explicitly political ends inspired by Edward Said; an embrace of essentialist categories of identity inspired by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak; a proud pessimism about the state of Western societies as well as a preference for public policies that explicitly make how someone is treated depend on the group to which they belong, both inspired by Derrick Bell; and an embrace of an intersectional logic for political activism as well as a deep-seated skepticism about the ability of members of different identity groups to understand each other, both associated with Kimberlé Crenshaw.”
Source: The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time
“Intellectual life requires for its expansion and manifestation the influences and assimilation of the interests and affections of others.”
Source: The Jane Addams Reader
“Intellectual maturity can save situations.
Emotional maturity can save relationships.”
“Intellectual men who quickly wolf down whatever nourishment is necessary for their bodies with a kind of disdain, may be very rational and have a noble intelligence, but they are not men of taste.”
“Intellectual methods-study and reason-are essential to our progress toward eternal life, but they are not sufficient. They can prepare the way. They can get the mind ready to receive the Spirit. But what the scriptures call conversion-the change of mind and heart that gives us the direction and strength to move resolutely toward eternal life-comes only by the witness and power of the Holy Spirit.”
“Intellectual modesty is humility as to what I know; intellectual humility is modesty as to what I do not know”
“Intellectual neutrality is not possible in a historical world of exploitation and oppression.”
Source: Democratizing Biblical Studies: Toward an Emancipatory Educational Space
“Intellectual passion dries out sensuality.”
“Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.”
Source: Leonardo, Psychoanalysis & Art History: A Critical Study of Psychobiographical Approaches to Leonardo Da Vinci
“Intellectual progress usually occurs through sheer abandonment of questions together with both of the alternatives they assume -- an abandonment that results from their decreasing vitality and a change of urgent interest. We do not solve them: we get over them.”
Source: The Influence of Darwin on Philosophy and Other Essays
“Intellectual property can advance Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by several steps, but it is not capable of achieving the impossible.”
Source: Fun IP, Fundamentals of Intellectual Property
“Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.”
“Intellectual property is an important legal and cultural issue. Society as a whole has complex issues to face here: private ownership vs. open source, and so on.”
Source: Leaders in Computing: Changing the Digital World
“Intellectual property is the oil of the 21 century. Look at the richest men a hundred years ago; they all made their money extracting natural resources or moving them around. All today's richest men have made their money out of intellectual property.”