Best function & intellectual Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“A free society is as much a threat to the intellectual's sense of worth as an automated economy is to the workingman's sense of worth. Any social order that can function with a minimum of leadership will be anathema to the intellectual.”

Order Social Economy Intellectual Function Threat Minimum Free Society Social Order Anathema

Book:The Ordeal of Change

Source: The Ordeal of Change

“I like to look good, but I like my body to function well more than anything. For me, it's as spiritual and intellectual as it is physical. And emotional. I enjoy pushing myself.”

Wells Looks Body Spiritual Enjoy Emotional Intellectual Function Pushing

Author:Will Smith

“The difference between a pessimistic and an optimistic mind is of such controlling importance in regard to every intellectual function, and especially for the conduct of life, that it is out of the question to admit that both are normal, and the great majority of mankind are naturally optimistic.”

Mind Differences Mankind Normal Intellectual Function Importance Regard Majority Optimistic Pessimistic

Book:Selected Writings (Values in a Universe of Chance)

Source: Selected Writings (Values in a Universe of Chance)

“Since the Greeks the predominant attitude of thinkers towards intellectual activity was to glorify it insofar as (like aesthetic activity) it finds its satisfaction in itself, apart from any attention to the advantages it may procure. Most thinkers would have agreed with Renan's verdict that the man who loves science for its fruits commits the worst of blasphemies against that divinity. The modern clercs have violently torn up this charter. They proclaim the intellectual functions are only respectable to the extent that they are bound up with the pursuit of concrete advantage.”

“Policy-making, decision-taking, and control: These are the three functions of management that have intellectual content.”

Three Decision Policy Intellectual Function Management Making Decisions Policy Making

Author:Anthony Stafford Beer

“Some authors state that the last stage in this chain of measurements involves "consciousness," or the "intellectual inner life" of the observer, by virtue of the "principle of psycho-physical parallelism." Other authors introduce a wave function for the entire universe. In this book, I shall refrain from using concepts that I do not understand.”

Book States Lasts Universe Consciousness Principles Virtue Stage Intellectual Concepts Function Wave Chains Introducing Observers Measurement Inner Life Refrain Psycho Parallelism

Author:Asher Peres

“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.”

Ends Culture Growth Development Intellectual Function Endeavor Decay Barbarism Emergence Stagnation

Author:Paul A. Baran

“The attainment of truth is then the function of both the intellectual parts of the soul. Therefore their respective virtues are those dispositions which will best qualify them to attain truth.”

Soul Virtue Truth Is Intellectual Function Disposition Attainment

Book:The Nicomachean ethics

Source: The Nicomachean ethics

“The function of comedy is to dispelunconsciousness by turning the searchlight of the keenest moral and intellectual analysisright on to it.”

Moral Comedy Intellectual Function

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“The deepest insult which can be shown to a human being is to associate it solely with material functions, with no cognizance and no consideration of its intellectual and spiritual power.”

Humans Spiritual Human Beings Materials Intellectual Function Insult Consideration Associates Spiritual Power

Author:Mary C. Ames

“I like to look good, but I like my body to function well more than anything. For me, it's as spiritual and intellectual as it is physical. And emotional. I'm a better husband, I'm a better father, if my body is physically functioning at the highest possible levels.”

Ifs Wells Looks Body Spiritual Father Levels Emotional Husband Highest Intellectual Function

Author:Willi Smith

“My true function within a society which embraces all of us is to continue an age-old tradition. This tradition is to create images from the depths of the imagination and to give them form, whether visual, intellectual or musical.”

Giving Age Form Imagination Intellectual Tradition Function Embrace Depth Musical Visuals Old Traditions

Book:A Man of Our Time: Michael Tippett

Source: A Man of Our Time: Michael Tippett

“The intellectual and moral failures common to America's general officer corps in Vietnam and Iraq constitute a crisis in American generalship. Any explanation that fixes culpability on individuals is insufficient. No one leader, civilian or military, caused failure in Vietnam or Iraq. Different military and civilian leaders in the two conflicts produced similar results. In both conflicts, the general officer corps designed to advise policymakers, prepare forces and conduct operations failed to perform its intended functions.”

“One can say that the disaffection is still a lingering naiveté about, not the place of poetry in the world, but - how to say this - the moral and intellectual presence of poets in the world. And while this may seem an old conversation to many poets who roll their eyes and say, "Here we go again about the function of poetry," I think that conversation, about poetry as an engaged art in a world that is full of regression or still lacking in progress, is still really not well-developed. It's almost an avoided conversation.”

Thinking World Wells May Art Stills Seems Eye Moral Progress Poet Conversation Intellectual Function Engaged Lacking Avoided Lingering Regression Here We Go Again

Author:Fady Joudah

“The fact is that the culture does not have only positive effects on our intellectual and moral functions but also negative effects.”

Doe Facts Culture Moral Effects Intellectual Negative Function

Author:Erich Fromm

“Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.”

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Author:Garrison Keillor

“Reason flows from the blending of rational thought and feeling. If the two functions are torn apart, thinking deteriorates into schizoid intellectual activity and feeling deteriorates into neurotic life-damaging passions.”

Ifs Thinking Two Reason Feelings Passion Activity Intellectual Flow Function Rational Torn Neurotic Thoughts And Feelings Rational Thought Torn Apart Schizoid

Book:The Revolution of Hope

Source: The Revolution of Hope

“It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time - for we are bound by that - but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.”

Facts Helping School Education Emotional Intellectual Function Bounds Intelligence Educational Limitation Our Time Great Education Great Educational Inspirational Education Inspirational Educational Value Of Education

Author:T. S. Eliot

“You don't have any other society where the educated classes are so effectively indoctrinated and controlled by a subtle propaganda system - a private system including media, intellectual opinion forming magazines and the participation of the most highly educated sections of the population. Such people ought to be referred to as "Commissars - for that is what their essential function is - to set up and maintain a system of doctrines and beliefs which will undermine independent thought and prevent a proper understanding and analysis of national and global institutions, issues, and policies".”

“Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity. The relationship between the soundness of the body and the activities of the mind is subtle and complex. Much is not yet understood. But we do know what the Greeks knew: that intelligence and skill can only function at the peak of their capacity when the body is healthy and strong; that hardy spirits and tough minds usually inhabit sound gods.”

“First, Know well that Intellectuality is not intelligence. To be intellectual is to be phony; it is a pretending intelligence. It is not real because it is not yours; it is borrowed. Intelligence is the growth of inner consciousness. It has nothing to do with knowledge, it has something to do with meditativeness. An intelligent person does not function out of his past experience; he functions in the present. He does not react, he responds. Hence he is always unpredictable; one can never be certain what he is going to do.”

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Author:Rajneesh

“As was predicted at the beginning of the Human Genome Project, getting the sequence will be the easy part as only technical issues are involved. The hard part will be finding out what it means, because this poses intellectual problems of how to understand the participation of the genes in the functions of living cells.”

Humans Mean Hard Problem Science Easy Issues Involved Findings Projects Intellectual Research Function Cells Genes Participation Sequence Genome Genome Project Human Genome Project

Author:Sydney Brenner

“The Library is an open sanctuary. It is devoted to individual intellectual inquiry and contemplation. Its function is to provide free access to ideas and information. It is a haven of privacy, a source of both cultural and intellectual sustenance for the individual reader. Since it is thus committed to free and open inquiry on a personal basis, the Library must remain open, with access to it always guaranteed.”

“The intellectual's hostility to the businessman presents no mystery, as the two have, by function, wholly different standards. While the businessman's motto is the customer is always right, the intellectual's task is to preserve his perceived standards against the weight of popular opinion.”

Two Different Philosophy Political Opinion Mystery Intellectual Standards Economics Tasks Weight Function Customers Preserves Businessman Motto Hostility Popular Opinion

Author:Bertrand de Jouvenel

“I consider the differences between man and animals in propensities, feelings, and intellectual faculties, to be the result of the same cause as that which we assign for the variations in other functions, viz. difference of organization; and that the superiority of man in rational endowments is not greater than the more exquisite, complicated, and perfectly developed structure of his brain, and particularly of his ample cerebral hemispheres, to which the rest of the animal kingdom offers no parallel, nor even any near approximation, is sufficient to account for.”

“Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can be more fully performed by this art, which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure.”

Men Mind Art Pleasure Intellectual Draws Function Extraordinary Vices Good Art

Book:Nicholas Copernicus on the revolutions

Source: Nicholas Copernicus on the revolutions

“Whoever would not remain in complete ignorance of the resources which cause him to act; whoever would seize, at a single philosophical glance, the nature of man and animals, and their relations to external objects; whoever would establish, on the intellectual and moral functions, a solid doctrine of mental diseases, of the general and governing influence of the brain in the states of health and disease, should know, that it is indispensable, that the study of the organization of the brain should march side by side with that of its functions.”

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