Intellectual Discourse Quotes

#1. Intellectual discourse and investigation is admittedly great fun but only truly meaningful when conducted in the service of others.

Sergio De La Pava

#2. Make no mistake about it: Law school is not a bastion of intellectual discourse.

Tucker Max

#3. It's fun talking to you ... like walking on the edge of a precipice. At first one's nervous but then courage takes over from somewhere.

Ivan Turgenev

#4. Wisdom demands a new orientation of science and technology toward the organic, the gentle, the elegant and beautiful.

E.F. Schumacher

#5. So much of western self-perception and intellectual worldview has been shaped by the moral rhetoric of the Cold War, the discourse in which communism featured as a clear enemy, determined to rule the world.

Pankaj Mishra

#6. A wise man once told me, Life's greatest fear is having knowledge of something, and dying before having the opportunity to share it." -Charles Blair

Charles Blair

#7. In her career, she'd closed multi-million dollar deals without a hint of nerves. Now she needed a jumbo-sized bottle of antacids just to get out of her car. Or a double shot of whiskey. God, she was losing it.

Avery Flynn

#8. If you live in a world of faith, this reaffirms your faith.

Jerry Bruckheimer

#9. There is in fact a controversy over Darwin's theory. Clearly both theories have religious implications. But this is not about God.

Richard Thompson

#10. The 'army camp' that coordinates the agencies of our brain is vulnerable, both in itself and from within. In effect, he who can know and master its functioning and psychology from outside can become twice its master.

Tariq Ramadan

#11. But ultimately what I was impressed by during my years in government was how much the intellectual climate and the prevailing intellectual notions constrained and represented the universe within which the discourse took place.

Lawrence Summers

#12. I'm a storyteller. I feel like the issue of discourse is an important one because there's a lot of political and ideological discourse that goes around, and we relate to that on an intellectual level.

Ayad Akhtar

#13. Valentine's Day is the day when you remember that Cupid was a lousy shot.

Milton Berle