Quotes of: Intellectual-development Keyword

It is not possible to be intellectually honest and believe in gods. And it is not possible to believe in gods and be a true scientist.

Peter Atkins

I think if I hadn't become a sociologist, I would have become very anti-intellectual.

Pierre Bourdieu

Mathematics ... is indispensable as an intellectual technique. In many subjects, to think at all is to think like a mathematician.

Robert Maynard Hutchins

Most intellectuals today have a phobia of any explanation of the mind that invokes genetics.

Steven Pinker

I think of myself as a theater animal instead of an intellectual animal.

Tom Stoppard

It was always said that the big distinction between the French and the English is that the English are intelligent and the French are intellectual.

Kenneth Baker

The 'We Have Overcome' generation has run out of intellectual creativity but refuses to leave the political stage.

Manning Marable

To be black and an intellectual in America is to live in a box. On the box is a label, not of my own choosing.

Stephen Carter

Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.

Noam Chomsky

The 'free-floating intellectual' may occupy himself with problems because of their inherent interest and importance, perhaps to little effect.

Noam Chomsky

As things stand the "intellectuals" only come out to lick the bones left over by the tyrant.

Nilantha Ilangamuwa

The true traveller is the one urged to move about for physical, aesthetic, intellectual as well as spiritual reasons.

Ella Maillart

Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.

John F. Kennedy

The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.

Sallust

We are united in the hope that every individual will someday enjoy at least the intellectual privileges we have had, if not always the material advantages.

Sidney Altman

Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance.

Clifford Geertz

People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.

Caroline Kennedy

But it is one of these sort of mythologies about America and its intellectual history, that the right embraced this thing called social Darwinism, when it never did so.

Jonah Goldberg

Systematic philosophical and practical anti-intellectualism such as we are witnessing appears to be something truly novel in the history of human culture.

Johan Huizinga

There is an interior style we intellectuals and design policy wonks know as Haut Euro Pooftastic, which really takes the biscuit.

Peter York

I think one of the unique aspects of Catholic school education is the opportunity to care for the material and intellectual needs of the child in a community atmosphere.

Mark Foley