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.

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

Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.

All observers not laboring under hallucinations of the senses are agreed or can be made to agree about facts of sensible experience through evidence toward which the intellect is merely passive and over which the individual will and character have no control.

I write out of my intellectual experience.

Skill is the unified force of experience intellect and passion in their operation.

Experience without theory is blind but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

It will appear evident upon attentive consideration that equality of intellectual and physical advantages is the only sure foundation of liberty and that such equality may best and perhaps only be obtained by a union of interests and cooperation in labor.

My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.

Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds widen their horizons inflame their intellects teach them to think straight if possible.

Napoleon was probably the equal at least of Washington in intellect his superior in education. Both of them were successful in serving the state.

Human education is concerned with certain changes in the intellects characters and behavior of men its problems being roughly included under these four topics: Aims materials means and methods.

I never got a formal education. So my intellect is my common sense. I don't have anything else going for me. And my common sense opens the door to instinct.

Education was the most important value in our home when I was growing up. People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.

To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility we must reduce the domination of certainty in education.

The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.

Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now it's really bad because everything we've done is de-humanizing education. It's destroying the possibility of the teacher and the student having a warm friendly intellectual relationship.

The first duty of government is to see that people have food fuel and clothes. The second that they have means of moral and intellectual education.

My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral intellectual and physical education I received from her.

I led the life of an intellectual up until a certain age. I remember Freud's 'Interpretation of Dreams' was a big favorite when I was 11. It sounded so interesting. And it really was!

Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons or whether one wants to overturn them.

The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.

The scientific argument advanced for intelligent design at the Dover trial those arguments collapsed scientifically and intellectually.

Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair but simply an integral part of the stuff of life necessary for everyone in a civilized society.