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“If pro-abortionists want to commit intellectual suicide and deny scientific facts, that's their problem. But there's no reason a civilized society should fund their anti-scientific outlook - or accept its inhumane consequences.”

Ifs Want Should Reason Facts Problem Accepting Intellectual Consequence Suicide Deny Commit No Reason Fund Civilized Outlook Civilized Society Scientific Facts Inhumane

Author:Nancy Pearcey

“Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap.”

Accepting Intellectual Inability Alienation Mystic Handicaps

Book:The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness

Source: The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness

“It is the opposite of ignorance—it is intellectual honesty: to be willing to accept reality and to call things what they are even when it is hard.”

Hard Reality Accepting Honesty Ignorance Willing Intellectual Opposites Intellectual Honesty

Book:Heaven is for Real Movie Edition: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back

Source: Heaven is for Real Movie Edition: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back

“Nevertheless we have this curious spectacle: daily the trained parrot in the pulpit gravely delivers himself of these ironies, which he has acquired at second-hand and adopted without examination, to a trained congregation which accepts them without examination, and neither the speaker nor the hearer laughs at himself. It does seem as if we ought to be humble when we are at a bench-show, and not put on airs of intellectual superiority there.”

Source: Mark Twain's Fables of Man

“Religion is a self-conferred intellectual decision; it's not something you get at birth and is unchangeable. You're collusive with the religion when you accept it; you have a choice.”

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Author:George Carlin

“Comedy is an intellectual affair, and deals chiefly with logic. Tragedy is an emotional affair, and deals chiefly with value. Horace Walpole once said that "life is a comedy to the man who thinks and a tragedy to the man who feels." Comedy is negative; it is a criticism of limitations and an unwillingness to accept them. Tragedy is positive; it is an uncritical acceptance of the positive content of that which is delimited. Since comedy deals with the limitations of actual situations and tragedy with their positive content, comedy must ridicule and tragedy must endorse.”

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Author:James Kern Feibleman

“The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities; the scientist accepts an existing field of knowledge and seeks to map out the unexplored terrain.”

World Self Accepting Fields Intellectual Scientist Starting Relate Maps Sensibility Self Knowledge Starting Point Terrain Unexplored

Book:The End of Ideology: On the Exhaustion of Political Ideas

Source: The End of Ideology: On the Exhaustion of Political Ideas

“Hamlet and Victor Frankenstein are each obsessed with death. Hamlet's whole story is a philosophical preparation for death; Victor's is an intellectual refusal to accept it.”

Whole Stories Accepting Intellectual Philosophical Preparation Obsessed Refusal Victor's Preparation For Death

Author:Kenneth Branagh

“In this country, intellectual cowardice is the worst enemy a writer or journalist has to face ... Unpopular ideas can be silenced, and incovenient facts kept dark, without the need for any official ban ... At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of iedas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question.”

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Author:George Orwell