Intellectual Quotes

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Vladimir Lenin

Tim Berners-Lee

Newt Gingrich

Hu Shih

Mary Renault

Ernest Dimnet

Jean Piaget

If Socialism can only be realized when the intellectual development of all the people permits it, then we shall not see Socialism for at least five hundred years.

It is certainly safe, in view of the movement to the right of intellectuals and political thinkers, to pronounce the brain death of socialism.

Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility.

Linux is not in the public domain. Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches. That's the way that the license works.

Whit Meynell was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.

Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue; it is an intellectual crime.

Americans have been selling this view around the world: that progress comes from perfect protection of intellectual property. Notwithstanding the fact that the most innovative and progressive space we've seen — the Internet — has been the place where intellectual property has been least respected. You know, facts don't get in the way of this ideology.

Lawrence Lessig

Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat.

The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - taking an intellectual form.

Chauncey Wright

I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement.

Anna Garlin Spencer

The more a man thinks the better adapted he becomes to thinking, and education is nothing if it is not the methodical creation of the habit of thinking. Precisely. Theoretically, education is a mental training aiming at greater intellectual elasticity, but the question is whether education does not often strain, instead of train, a mind.

Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life-blood of real civilization.

G. M. Trevelyan

Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information.

Kingman Brewster, Jr.

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love.

History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff – well, it might as well be dead.

Arnold J. Toynbee

Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values; that is to say, their own ideas and other people's values.

What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.

A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.

My dear Miss Glory, Robots are not people. They are mechanically more perfect than we are, they have an astounding intellectual capacity, but they have no soul.

Greed probably figures in my intellectual life as well, as I attempt to absorb a massive amount of information with consequent mental indigestion.

For centuries knowledge meant proven knowledge... Einstein's results again turned the tables and now very few philosophers or scientists still think that scientific knowledge is, or can be, proven knowledge. But few realize that with this the whole classical structure of intellectual values falls in ruins and has to be replaced.

Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of historians; much more than that it does not expect, nor often get.

Samuel Eliot Morison

My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his intellectual freedom