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“The information revolution has changed wealth. Intellectual capital is far more important than money.”

Important Wealth Information Changed Revolution Intellectual Intellectual Capital

“Laughter is one of the great beacons in life because we don't refract it by gunning it through our intellectual prism. What makes us laugh is a mystery - an involuntary response.”

Laughing Mystery Intellectual Laughter Response Beacons Involuntary Prisms

Author:Dennis Miller

“God sees the minds (ruling principles) of all men bared of the material vesture and rind and impurities. For with his intellectual part alone he touches the intelligence only which has flowed and been derived from himself into these bodies. And if thou also usest thyself to do this, thou wilt rid thyself of thy much trouble. For he who regards not the poor flesh which envelops him, surely will not trouble himself by looking after raiment and dwelling and fame and such like externals and show.”

Ifs Men Mind Shows Body Poor Principles Trouble Materials Fame Intellectual Regard Flesh Ruling Thyself Dwelling Impurity

Book:Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Source: Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

“If, therefore, man has come into the world to search for God and, if he has found Him, to adhere to Him and to find repose in adhering to Him-man cannot search for Him and attain Him in this sensible and corporeal world, since God is spirit rather than body, and cannot be attained in intellectual abstraction, since one is able to conceive nothing similar to God, as he asserts-how can one, therefore, search for Him in order to find Him?”

Ifs Men World Body Able Spirit Order Found Intellectual Real World Sensible Abstraction Repose

Author:Nicholas of Cusa

“Those, however, who saw that one cannot attain wisdom and perennial intellectual life, unless it be given through the gift of grace, and that the goodness of the Almighty God is so great that He hears those who invoke His name, and they gain salvation, became humble, acknowledging that they are ignorant, and directed their life as the life of one desiring eternal wisdom. And that is the life of the virtuous, who proceed in the desire for the other life, which is commended by the saints.”

Desire Names Given Saws Grace Goodness Eternal Intellectual Gains Salvation Saint Humble Ignorant Virtuous Almighty Almighty God Invoke Intellectual Life

Author:Nicholas of Cusa

“For our intellectual spirit has the power of fire in itself. For no other purpose is it sent by God to the earth than that it glow and grow into a flame. When it is excited by admiration, then it grows, just as if the wind entering into a fire excited its potential to actuality. If we apprehend the works of God, we marvel at eternal wisdom.”

Ifs Earth Spirit Purpose Grows Fire Wind Eternal Intellectual Excited Flames Admiration Entering Actuality

Author:Nicholas of Cusa

“If culture did not filter, it would be inane - as inane as the formless, boundless Internet is on its own. And if we all possessed the boundless knowledge of the Web, we would be idiots! Culture is an instrument for making a hierarchical system of intellectual labor.”

Ifs Would Be Culture Internet Intellectual Labor Instruments Idiot Possessed Boundless Filters

Author:Umberto Eco

“The game of chess is the most fascinating and intellectual pastime which the wisdom of antiquity has bequeathed to us.”

Games Intellectual Chess Fascinating Antiquity Pastime

Author:Howard Staunton

“The high IQ has become the American equivalent of the Legion of Honor, positive proof of a child's intellectual aristocracy.... It has become more important to be a smart kid than a good kid or even a healthy kid.”

Children Important Kids Honor Healthy Intellectual Smart Proof Aristocracy Legion Smart Kid Healthy Kids

Book:EVERYTHING BUT MONEY

Source: EVERYTHING BUT MONEY

“Most men use their knowledge only under guidance from others because they lack the courage to think independently using their own reasoning abilities. It takes intellectual daring to discover the truth.”

Thinking Men Use Ability Intellectual Guidance Reasoning Daring

Author:Immanuel Kant

“The best and the worst thing about fashion is that anyone can do it. But because fashion can be the most unintellectual thing, you have to turn it into an intellectual exercise just for your own sanity. You have to start with a conceit.”

Turns Can Do Worst Fashion Exercise Intellectual Sanity Worst Things Conceit

Author:Joseph Altuzarra

“An intellectual carrot - the mind boggles.”

Mind Intellectual Another World Carrots

Author:James Arness

“Conservatism is an active intellectual pursuit; it requires a constant vigilance. It has nothing to do with feelings. Liberalism is the most gutless choice you can make. You just see suffering and say, 'Oh, I feel so horrible!'”

Feels Feelings Suffering Choices Intellectual Constant Active Pursuit Horrible Liberalism Conservatism Vigilance

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“To get people emotionally involved in something intellectual and political is important.”

People Important Political Involved Intellectual

Author:Maggie Gyllenhaal

“Kitsch offers instantaneous emotional gratification without intellectual effort, without the requirement of distance, wihtout sublimation.”

Effort Emotional Offers Intellectual Distance Requirements Gratification Kitsch Instantaneous

Author:Walter Benjamin

“Today we are living in an intellectual and technological paradise and a moral and social nightmare because the intellectual level of evolution, in its struggle to become free of the social level, has ignored the social level's role in keeping the biological level under control.”

Today Social Levels Moral Roles Struggle Evolution Intellectual Paradise Nightmare Technological Ignored

Book:LILA An Inquriry into Morals

Source: LILA An Inquriry into Morals

“We must understand that when a society undermines intellectual freedom for its own purposes it is absolutely morally bad, but when it represses biological freedom for its own purposes it is absolutely morally good.”

Purpose Intellectual Intellectual Freedom

Book:LILA An Inquriry into Morals

Source: LILA An Inquriry into Morals

“Objects are inorganic and biological values; subjects are social and intellectual values.”

Values Social Subjects Objects Intellectual

Book:LILA An Inquriry into Morals

Source: LILA An Inquriry into Morals

“Communism and socialism, programs for intellectual control over society ... fascism, a program for the social control of intellect.”

Social Intellectual Program Intellect Socialism Communism Fascism Social Control Communism And Socialism

Book:LILA An Inquriry into Morals

Source: LILA An Inquriry into Morals

“Within a Metaphysics of Quality, science is a set of static intellectual patterns describing this reality, but the patterns are not the reality they describe.”

Reality Quality Intellectual Patterns Metaphysics Describing Static

Book:LILA An Inquriry into Morals

Source: LILA An Inquriry into Morals

“My intellectual development was retarded, as a result of which I began to wonder about space and time only when I had already grown up.”

Space Results Wonder Development Intellectual Time And Space Relativity Retarded Theories Of Relativity Intellectual Development

Author:Albert Einstein

“Antonio Gramsci said that social reformers should have pessimism of the intellect and optimism of the will. This means that one must have the intellectual ability to see how bad things are and the emotional ability to look forward with hope. It's a hard combination to sustain, but if you can do it, you can change the world.”

“In companies whose wealth is intellectual capital, networks, rather than hierarchies, are the right organizational design.”

Wealth Company Design Intellectual Hierarchy Organizational Intellectual Capital

Book:Intellectual Capital: The new wealth of organization

Source: Intellectual Capital: The new wealth of organization

“Love for the Lord is not an ethereal, intellectual, dreamlike thing; it is the intensest, most vital, most passionate love of which the human heart is capable.”

Humans Heart Lord Capable Intellectual Passionate Human Heart Passionate Love Ethereal

Author:Oswald Chambers

“For me, it's really important that the experience of art is always something that is able to provoke strong emotion, an emotion that you feel in your heart or your stomach, but also that challenges the brain at the same time. It's an experience - physical and intellectual.”

Feels Heart Art Important Able Strong Challenges Emotion Brain Intellectual Art Is Stomach Provoking Strong Emotions

Author:Camille Henrot

“If you get into a fight and somebody punches you, you get two feelings. One: That really hurts. Two: That relief in the realness of, like, Wow, this is what it is. It's not an intellectual process.”

Ifs Two Feelings Fighting Process Hurt Intellectual Relief Wow Realness

Author:John Darnielle

“I could draw ideas. I remember writing a paper for a seminar class. I remember writing a paper about - and this is going to sound really sort of pretentious, but that's where my mind was at the time - how acting and the performing artist can really be like a Bodhisattva, how they can communicate ultimately an idea in a way that can move and shift things. And that was wonderful. I didn't know many classes where I could try and relate the thing that I really loved and wanted to do into an intellectual idea, and that happened to be one of them.”

“In the Catholic Worker we must try to have the voluntary poverty of St. Francis, the charity of St. Vincent de Paul, the intellectual approach of St. Dominic, the easy conversations about things that matter of St. Philip Neri, the manual labor of St. Benedict.”

Trying Matter Easy Poverty Conversation Approach Intellectual Labor Catholic Charity Workers Manuals Things That Matter Philip Manual Labor St Benedict

Author:Peter Maurin

“Worship is a powerful witness to unbelievers-if God's presence is felt, and if the message is understandable. God's presence must be sensed in the service. More people are won to Christ by feeling God's presence than by all our apologetic arguments combined. Few people, if any, are converted to Christ on purely intellectual grounds. It is the sense of God's presence that melts the heart and explodes mental barriers.”

People Ifs Heart Feelings Felt Christ Powerful Worship Messages Intellectual Argument Witness Barriers Unbelievers Apologetic God's Presence

Author:Rick Warren

“Owning the intellectual property is like owning land: You need to keep investing in it again and again to get a payoff; you can't simply sit back and collect rent.”

Needs Land Intellectual Property Investing Again And Again Intellectual Property Payoff

Author:Esther Dyson

“[... Dance] involves every possible feeling (as potential), because it is of the body, which is lived (inescapably) as a body of feeling. Some of these feelings we can name, and some we cannot, since we associate feelings with language only when we name them. The body lives sentience on a preverbal level. Dance exists first on this primordial level, not on an intellectual plane (even though it requires skill and intelligence). Its inmost substance cannot be reasoned, only experienced.”

Firsts Feelings Body Names Language Levels Skills Intellectual Substance Planes Associates

Author:Sondra Horton Fraleigh

“Classical music is at odds with contemporary culture precisely because of its insistence on the tension between the bodily and intellectual, the material and the spiritual, the thinglike and its transcendence in thought. A culture that is merely sensuous and that denies the activity of the mind within sensuous materials risks becoming pornographic.”

Mind Spiritual Culture Risk Materials Becoming Activity Music Is Intellectual Deny Contemporary Tension Odds Transcendence Classical Music Insistence Sensuous

Author:Julian Johnson

“If partisanship makes us abandon intellectual honesty, if we oppose what our opponents say or do simply because they are the ones saying or doing it, we become mere political short-sellers, hoping for bad news because it's good for our ideological investment.”

Ifs Political Honesty News Intellectual Mere Investment Opponents Abandon Ideological Bad News Sellers Partisanship Intellectual Honesty

Author:Kurt Andersen

“It strikes everyone in beginning to form an acquaintance with the treasures of Indian literature that a land so rich in intellectual products and those of the profoundest order of thought.”

Form Order Literature Rich Land Products Intellectual Strikes Treasure Indian Acquaintance

Author:Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“There is only one way to receive intellectual respect, and that is to earn it. A degree doesn't mean anything, as there are too many maleducated morons running around with them to impress anyone.”

Way Mean Running Degrees Intellectual One Way Impress Moron

Author:Theodore Beale

“The most curious social convention of the great age in which we live is the one to the effect that religious opinions should be respected. Its evil effects must be plain enough to everyone. All it accomplishes is (a) to throw a veil of sanctity about ideas that violate every intellectual decency, and (b) to make every theologian a sort of chartered libertine. No doubt it is mainly to blame for the appalling slowness with which really sound notions make their way in the world.”

Source: Mencken Chrestomathy

“I'm really trying to dredge up what one might call intellectual and moral material. For example, when do you realize that you are an American? What age does that happen to you? When do you realize what religion your parents practice? When does it all become conscious? I was interested in exploring all of that.”

Trying Doe Might Happens Age Parent Realizing Moral Practice Example Materials Intellectual Conscious Exploring

Author:Paul Auster

“The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.”

Inspirational Funny College Intellectual Intelligence Graduates Graduation College Graduates

Author:Robert M. Hutchins

“An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.”

Persons Wisdom Found Sex Interest Interesting Education One Thing Intellectual Intelligence Witty Intellect Sexuality Intellectualism Funny Sex Intellectual Life Intellectual Growth

Author:Aldous Huxley

“The secret of life is to be found in life itself, in the full organic, intellectual and spiritual activities of our body.”

Body Spiritual Life Is Found Secret Activity Intellectual Secret Life

Author:Alexis Carrel

“...writing fiction...is no job for intellectual cowards.”

Writing Jobs Fiction Intellectual Coward Writing Fiction

Author:Stephen King

“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.”

Men Giving Mind Ideas Done Certain Growth Religious Progress Subjects He Man Giving Up Intellectual Servant Superstitions Intellectual Growth

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“The profound political changes we need in order to heal our planet will not come about through fragmented problem solving or intellectual analyses that overlook the deepest yearnings and intuitions of the heart....As we begin to cultivate a rich inner life and experience our connection with all life, we realize how little of what society tells us we need is actually important for our well-being....Green politics must address the spiritual vacuum of industrial society.”

“The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals.”

Thinking World Science Existence Struggle Theory Intellectual Species Intellect Extinction Rivals Resisting Struggle For Existence

Book:Collected essays

Source: Collected essays

“Atheism is an exercise in intellectual contempt.”

Atheism Exercise Intellectual Contempt

Author:Ravi Zacharias

“Software development takes immense intellectual effort. Even the best programmers can rarely sustain that level of effort for more than a few hours a day. Beyond that, they need to rest their brains a bit, which is why they always seem to be surfing the Internet or playing games when you barge in on them.”

Needs Seems Games Bits Hours Levels Effort Brain Development Internet Intellectual Software Immense Surfing Programmers Playing Games Software Development Barges Surfing The Internet

Author:Joel Spolsky

“The arts are not simply skills: their concern is the intellectual, ethical, and spiritual maturity of human life. And in a time when religious and political institutions are so busy engraving images of marketable gods and candidates that they lose their vision of human dignity, the arts have become the custodians of those values which most worthily difine humanity, which most sensitively define Divinity.”

“Today I have lost one of my dearest friends, England one of her greatest men. Keith Joseph understood that it was necessary to win again the intellectual argument for freedom, and that to do this we must start from first principles. He was in many ways an unlikely revolutionary. For all his towering intellect, he was deeply humble. He spoke out boldly, however hostile the audience. Yet he hated to give offence. Above all, his integrity shone out in everything he said and did. His best memorial lies in the younger generations of politicians whom he inspired. But for me he is irreplaceable.”

“[E]mpathy - not squishy self-serving conflict avoidance - is the hand-maiden, not the enemy, of reason and intellectual inquiry.”

Self Reason Hands Enemy Conflict Intellectual Serving Inquiry Avoidance Maidens Self Serving

Author:Ta-Nehisi Coates

“Sensible Catholics have for generations been ignoring the views on contraception held by reactionary old men in the Vatican, but alas, since it is the business of all religious doctrines to keep their votaries in a state of intellectual infancy (how else do they keep absurdities seeming credible?), insufficient numbers of Catholics have been able to be sensible.”

Source: Against All Gods: Six Polemics on Religion and an Essay on Kindness

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