Home / Topics / Taken Quotes

Taken Quotes

Browse 5910 quotes about Taken.

Taken Quotes

“What the intellectual craves above all else is to be taken seriously, to be treated as a decisive force in shaping history. He is far more at home in a society that weighs his every word and keeps close watch on his attitudes then in a society that cares not what he says or does. He would rather be persecuted than ignored.”

Doe Home Care Force Attitude Watches Taken Society Intellectual Treated Ignored Crave Persecuted

Author:Eric Hoffer

“It is a curious paradox that precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity, to those mysterious powers assumed by others; and in those regions of darkness and ignorance where man cannot effect even those things that are within the power of man, there we shall ever find that a blind belief in feats that are far beyond those powers has taken the deepest root in the minds of the deceived, and produced the richest harvest to the knavery of the deceiver.”

Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“For more than a thousand years the Bible, collectively taken, has gone hand in hand with civilization science, law; in short, with the moral and intellectual cultivation of the species, always supporting and often leading he way.”

Way Years Hands Law Moral Gone Taken Civilization Thousand Intellectual Bible Species Thousand Years Hand In Hand Cultivation

Book:The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions

Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions

“So, we think about God far to easily and that's because of a lot of social, intellectual, and scientific changes that have taken place in the western world and that has made God very problematic for a lot of people.”

People Thinking World Made Social Taken Intellectual Western Western World

Author:Karen Armstrong

“There's this belief that some things can be taken seriously in an intellectual way, while some things are only entertainment or only a commodity. Or there's some kind of critical consensus that some things are "good," and some things are garbage, throwaway culture. And I think the difference between them, in a lot of ways, is actually much less than people think. Especially when you get down to how they affect the audience.”

People Thinking Way Kind Culture Belief Differences Audience Taken Intellectual Entertainment Critical Commodity Garbage Consensus

Author:Chuck Klosterman

“Intellectual freedom means the right to re-examine much that has been long taken for granted. A free man must be a reasoning man, and he must dare doubt what a legislative or electoral majority may most passionately assert.”

Men May Mean Long Has Beens Taken Doubt Intellectual Majority Dare Granted Reasoning Free Man Taken For Granted Intellectual Freedom

Author:Robert H. Jackson

“I'm usually taken for a non-intellectual, a person of limited intelligence. I don't know why, but I figure it's because physically I don't look intelligent.”

Knows Looks Persons Taken Figures Intellectual Intelligent

Author:Sylvester Stallone

“Before the Conquest all art was of the people, and popular art has never ceased to exist in Mexico. The art called popular is fugitive in character, with less of the impersonal and intellectual characteristics of the schools. It is the work of talent nourished by personal experience and that of the community - rather than being taken from the experiences of painters in other times and other cultures.”

People Art Character School Culture Community Taken Talent Intellectual Painter Characteristics Mexico Conquest Personal Experiences Other Cultures Fugitive Bravo

Book:Manuel Álvarez Bravo

Source: Manuel Álvarez Bravo