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“The few bright meteors in man's intellectual horizon could well be matched by women, were she allowed to occupy the same elevated position.”

Men Wells Position Intellectual Horizon Matched Meteors

Book:Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader

Source: Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader

“Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness, but I don't argue with it - especially as I am rarely in a position to prove that it is mistaken. Negative proof is usually impossible.”

Faith Impossible Position Prove Intellectual Negative Strikes Proof Arguing Laziness Mistaken Intellectual Laziness

Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“I rejoice in a belief that intellectual light will spring up in the dark corners of the earth; that freedom of enquiry will produce liberality of conduct; that mankind will reverse the absurd position that the many were, made for the few; and that they will not continue slaves in one part of the globe, when they can become freemen in another.”

Made War Light Earth Belief Dark Mankind Position Produce Intellectual Spring Slave Corners Absurd Rejoice Reverse Globes Freeman Enquiry Liberality

Book:The Papers of George Washington: April-June 1789

Source: The Papers of George Washington: April-June 1789

“Sometime in the coming century, people will rack their brains pondering how nations with tremendous scientific and intellectual achievements could have given uninstructed and untrained men and women the right to vote equally uninstructed and untrained people into responsible positions.”

People Men Given Nations Brain Century Position Achievement Intellectual Men And Women Vote Responsible Pondering Right To Vote Racks

Book:Leftism Revisited: From de Sade and Marx to Hitler and Pol Pot

Source: Leftism Revisited: From de Sade and Marx to Hitler and Pol Pot

“Insofar as theology is an attempt to define and clarify intellectual positions, it is apt to lead to discussion, to differences of opinion, even to controversy, and hence to be divisive. And this has had a strong tendency to dampen serious discussion of theological issues in most groups, and hence to strengthen the general anti-intellectual bias.”

Strong Differences Christianity Opinion Issues Groups Position Serious Intellectual Theology Tendencies Discussion Bias Controversy Theological Differences Of Opinion

Author:Bill Vaughan

“In the hands of a skillful indoctrinator, the average student not only thinks what the indoctrinator wants him to think . . . but is altogether positive that he has arrived at his position by independent intellectual exertion. This man is outraged by the suggestion that he is the flesh-and-blood tribute to the success of his indoctrinators.”

Thinking Men Want Hands Blood Position Students Intellectual Independent Average Flesh Suggestions Tribute Want Him Skillful Exertion Flesh And Blood Outraged

Book:Up from Liberalism

Source: Up from Liberalism

“Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic uninterestingness as an intellectual position.”

Has Beens Atheism Position Intellectual Atheist Positive Atheism Drastic Repulsion

Book:Self-consciousness: memoirs

Source: Self-consciousness: memoirs