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“To the indefinite, uncertain mind of the American radical the most contradictory ideas and methods are possible. The result is a sad chaos in the radical movement, a sort of intellectual hash, which has neither taste nor character.”

Mind Ideas Character Results Movement Taste Intellectual Method Chaos Radical Uncertain Contradictory Hash

Book:Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader

Source: Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader

“Ninety percent of the difficulty in your intellectual life would never have happened if you just had better taste.”

Ifs Happened Taste Intellectual Percent Difficulty Ninety Intellectual Life

Author:Terence McKenna

“Helping children at a level of genuine intellectual inquiry takes imagination on the part of the adult. Even more, it takes the courage to become a resource in unfamiliar areas of knowledge and in ones for which one has no taste. But parents, no less than teachers, must respect a child's mind and not exploit it for their own vanity or ambition, or to soothe their own anxiety.”

Mind Children Helping Parent Imagination Levels Teacher Taste Anxiety Ambition Intellectual Adults Resources Areas Genuine Vanity Inquiry Exploits Unfamiliar Helping Children

Author:Dorothy H Cohen

“But you go to a great school, not for knowledge so much as for arts and habits; for the habit of attention, for the art of expression, for the art of assuming at a moment's notice a new intellectual posture, for the art of entering quickly into another person's thoughts, for the habit of submitting to censure and refutation, for the art of indicating assent or dissent in graduated terms, for the habit of regarding minute points of accuracy, for the habit of working out what is possible in a given time, for taste, for discrimination, for mental courage and mental soberness.”

“The unconscious is not a demoniacal monster, but a natural entity which, as far as moral sense, aesthetic taste, and intellectual judgment go, is completely neutral.It only becomes dangerous when our conscious attitude to it is hopelessly wrong. To the degree that we repress it, its danger increases.”

Natural Attitude Moral Dangerous Danger Taste Degrees Judgment Intellectual Conscious Increase Monsters Unconscious Aesthetic Entity

Book:The practice of psychotherapy

Source: The practice of psychotherapy

“Many a woman shudders... at the terrible eclipse of those intellectual powers which in early life seemed prophetic of usefulness and happiness, hence the army of martyrs among our married and unmarried women who, not having cultivated a taste for science, art or literature, form a corps of nervous patients who make fortunes for agreeable physicians.”

Art Form Literature Terrible Taste Married Intellectual Army Fortune Patient Nervous Physicians Martyr Usefulness Eclipse Prophetic Unmarried Married Women Early Life

Author:Sarah Moore Grimke

“Profound meditation in solitude and silence frequently exalts the mind above its natural tone, fires the imagination, produces the most refined and sublime conceptions. The soul then tastes the purest and most refined delight, and almost loses the idea of existence in the intellectual pleasure it receives. The mind on every motion darts through space into eternity; and raised, in its free enjoyment of its powers by its own enthusiasm, strengthens itself in the habitude of contemplating the noblest subjects, and of adopting the most heroic pursuits.”

“By day, or on a cloudless night, a pilot may drink the wine of the gods, but it has an earthly taste; he's a god of the earth, like one of the Grecian deities who lives on worldly mountains and descended for intercourse with men. But at night, over a stratus layer, all sense of the planet may disappear. You know that down below, beneath that heavenly blanket is the earth, factual and hard. But it's an intellectual knowledge; it's a knowledge tucked away in the mind; not a feeling that penetrates the body.”

“The difference between real material poison and intellectual poison is that most material poison is disgusting to the taste, but intellectual poison, which takes the form of cheap newspapers or bad books, can unfortunately sometimes be attractive.”

Book Real Sometimes Form Differences Materials Taste Intellectual Newspapers Attractive Poison Disgusting

Book:A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se

Source: A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se

“If, in any individual, university training produces a taste for refined idleness, a distaste for sustained effort, a barren intellectual arrogance, or a sense of superfluous aloofness from the world of real men who do the world's real work, then it has harmed that individual.”

“The intellectual quest is exquisite like pearls and coral, But it is not the same as the spiritual quest. The spiritual quest is on another level altogether, Spiritual wine has a subtler taste. The intellect and the senses investigate cause and effect. The spiritual seeker surrenders to the wonder.”

Spiritual Causes Levels Wonder Effects Taste Intellectual Wine Intellect Senses Surrender Quests Pearls Seekers Exquisite Cause And Effect

Book:'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian

Source: 'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian

“A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.”

Littles Education Learning Dangerous Drink Taste Intellectual Spring Intelligence Dangerous Things Knowledge And Learning Knowledge Learning Little Knowledge Knowledge And Ignorance Deep Learning Knowledge Is Dangerous

Author:Alexander Pope

“It is quite impossible these days to assume anything about people's educational level from the way they talk or dress or from their taste in music. Safest to treat everyone you meet as a distinguished intellectual.”

People Way Levels Impossible Taste Intellectual Treats Dresses Assuming Educational These Days Distinguished Taste In Music

Author:Ian Mcewan