“It does surprise me that intelligent people in the 21st century could claim that if you respond to the terrorists with force, you spawn terrorism, but if you appease them, you somehow tame them. This argument, as I said, is very interesting, and very surprising.” PeopleIfsDoeSaidForceInterestingCenturyArgumentClaimsIntelligentSurpriseTerrorismTerroristSurprising21st CenturyVery InterestingSurprise MeAppeaseSpawn Author:Meles Zenawi
“No matter how brilliant, amusing or intelligent the creek of abstraction, Dadaism, Minimalism and Conceptualism of the 20th century was, it didn't much affect the historical river of figuration. I predict that in 50 years and in 300 years, figurative art will still be strong and important.” YearsArtStillsImportantMatterStrongCenturyRiversIntelligentHistoricalBrilliant20th CenturyAbstractionAmusingModernismMinimalismCreeksFigurative Art Author:Mark Kostabi
“The twentieth century saw an amazing development of scholarship and criticism in the humanities, carried out by people who were more intelligent, better trained, had more languages, had a better sense of proportion, and were infinitely more accurate scholars and competent professional men than I. I had genius. No one else in the field known to me had quite that.” PeopleMenHumanityLanguageKnownSawsCenturyFieldsDevelopmentGeniusCriticismIntelligentProportionScholarAccurateTwentieth CenturyScholarshipCompetent Book:Northrop Frye unbuttoned: wit and wisdom from the notebooks and diaries Source: Northrop Frye unbuttoned: wit and wisdom from the notebooks and diaries
“We should not allow ourselves to believe that writers like Poe have more imagination than those who are content with describing things as they really are. It is surely easier to invent striking situations in this way than to tread the beaten track which intelligent minds have followed throughout the centuries.” WayShouldMindBelieveImaginationSituationCenturyEasierIntelligentTrackBeatenDescribing Author:Eugene Delacroix
“Occasionally, in each age and in different lands, a Buddha is born, that is to say, an enlightened person...they re-codify the ways, the practices, they make changes that are just intelligent changes that adapt to a new century, a new culture.” WayPersonsDifferentAgeCultureBornPracticeLandCenturyIntelligentBuddhistEnlightenedMaking ChangesCosmologyNew Cultures Author:Frederick Lenz
“Today, in the Twenty-First Century, an age of jet aircraft, personal computers, wireless telecommunications, laser surgery, and incipient space travel, the mentality with which many presumably educated, intelligent people approach matters of economics and business is, however astonishing it may seem, still that of the Dark Ages.” PeopleFirstsMayStillsMatterSeemsAgeTodayDarkSpaceCenturyComputerApproachEconomicsTwentiesIntelligentEducatedMentalitySurgeryAstonishingJetDark AgesSpace TravelAircraftWirelessLasersPersonal ComputersTelecommunications Author:George Reisman
“Stewart Davenport conscientiously and insightfully re-creates the world of the nineteenth-century political economists, who taught that the principles of international trade manifested, like the laws of biology and physics, the intelligent design of a Divine Creator.” WorldLawPoliticalPrinciplesCenturyDesignTaughtDivineIntelligentTradeInternationalCreatorPhysicsBiologyEconomistNineteenth CenturyIntelligent DesignInternational Trade Author:Daniel Walker Howe
“We have observed for thirty centuries that a large nose is a sign on the door of our face that says 'Herein dwells a man who is intelligent, prudent, courteous, affable, noble-minded and generous'. A small nose is a cork on the bottle of the opposite vices.” MenFacesDoorsCenturyOppositesIntelligentVicesNobleNosesGenerousThirtyBottlesPrudentCourteousCorkAffable Author:Cyrano de Bergerac