Great Throughts Treasury

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Aldous Leonard Huxley

If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay - in solid cash - the tribute which philistinism owes to culture, the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.

Culture | Heaven | Hypocrisy | Wisdom |

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

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

Education | Learning | Wisdom |

Sally Kempton

It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.

Enemy | Wisdom |

James Russell Lowell

Men have their intellectual ancestry, and the likeness of some one of them is forever unexpectedly flashing out in the features of a descendant, it may be after a gap of several centuries. In the parliament of the present every man represents a constituency of the past.

Ancestry | Man | Men | Past | Present | Wisdom |

Sterling M. McMurrin, fully Sterling Moss McMurrin

An educated man is one who loves knowledge and will accept no substitutes and whose life is made meaningful through the never-ending process of the cultivation of his total intellectual resources.

Cultivation | Knowledge | Life | Life | Man | Will | Wisdom |

James McCosh

As ages roll on there is doubtless a progression in human nature. The intellectual comes to rule the physical, and the moral claims to subordinate both. It is no longer strength of body that prevails, but strength of mind; while the law of God proclaims itself superior to both.

Body | God | Human nature | Law | Mind | Nature | Rule | Strength | Wisdom | God |

Robert C. Pooley, fully Robert Cecil Pooley

Our responsibility as educators is to teach youth to have respect for those who differ from the customary ways as well as for those who conform. In simpler words, we have a profound obligation both to education and to society itself to support and strengthen the right to be different, and to create a sound respect for intellectual superiority.

Education | Obligation | Respect | Responsibility | Right | Society | Sound | Superiority | Teach | Wisdom | Words | Youth | Society | Respect | Youth |

William Lyon Phelps

No one should make a statement like "youth is the happiest time of life" without being prepared to accept its intellectual consequences.

Consequences | Life | Life | Time | Wisdom | Youth |

Philip Bennett Power

To tell the truth, however, family and poverty have done more to support me than I have to support them. They have compelled me to make exertions that I hardly thought myself capable of; and often when on the eve of despairing, they have forced me, like a coward in a corner, to fight like a hero, not for myself, but for my wife and little ones.

Family | Hero | Little | Poverty | Thought | Truth | Wife | Wisdom | Thought |

Harold Rosenberg

The function of art is no longer to satisfy wants, including intellectual wants, but to serve as a stimulus to further creation. The Sistine Chapel is valuable not for the feelings it aroused in the past but for the creative acts it will instigate in the future. Art comes into being through a chain of inspiration.

Art | Feelings | Future | Inspiration | Past | Wants | Will | Wisdom | Art |

W. T. Stace, fully Walter Terence Stace

In the end we shall have to say that there is no solution of an intellectual kind and that it is part of the general mystical paradox that the mystical revelation transcends the intellect.

Mystical | Paradox | Revelation | Wisdom |

Jeremy Taylor

It is not the eye, that sees the beauty of the heaven, nor the ear, that hears the sweetness of music or the glad tidings of a prosperous accident, but the soul, that perceives all the relishes of sensual and intellectual perfections; and the more noble and excellent the soul is, the greater and more savory are its perceptions.

Accident | Beauty | Heaven | Music | Soul | Wisdom | Beauty |

Maurice Valency

No man can establish title to an idea - at the most he can only claim possession. The stream of though that irrigates the mind of each of us is a confluent of the intellectual river that drains the whole of the living universe.

Man | Mind | Title | Universe | Wisdom |

Edith Wharton

In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things and happy in small ways.

Change | Curiosity | Happy | Past | Sorrow | Wisdom |

Jacob Viner

Men are not narrow in their intellectual interests by nature; it takes special and vigorous training to accomplish that end.

Men | Nature | Training | Wisdom |