Quote by Michael Polanyi
Human beings exercise responsibilities within a social setting and

Human beings exercise responsibilities within a social setting and a framework of obligations which transcend the principle of intelligence. – Michael Polanyi

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I shall suggest, on the contrary, that all communication relies, to a noticeable extent on evoking knowledge that we cannot tell, and that all our knowledge of mental processes, like feelings or conscious intellectual activities, is based on a knowledge which we cannot tell. – Michael Polanyi

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communication
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The process of philosophic and scientific enlightenment has shaken the stability of beliefs held explicitly as articles of faith. – Michael Polanyi

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Faith
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Intelligence
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Well, our position, and our chairman has talked about this extensively, is that we had a lot of intelligence prior to 9/11. We knew that two al Qaeda operatives who ultimately participated in the 9/11 disaster were in the United States. We didnt find them. – Richard Ben-Veniste

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Intelligence

If you are going to have to play defense all the time, you cannot have the kind of ingenuity, assertiveness, independence, and intelligence which is what has made our country strong. – Arlen Specter

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Intelligence

The prompt assimilation of that intelligence will be essential if we are to avoid another September 11th. – Adam Schiff

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Intelligence

Immaturity is the incapacity to use ones intelligence without the guidance of another. – Immanuel Kant

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Intelligence

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Radical historians now tell the story of Thanksgiving from the point of view of the turkey. – Mason Cooley

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No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell. – Antonin Artaud

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Creativity

Does age poison us, or do we poison age? – Terri Guillemets

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Age

Of course there’s a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don’t take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates. – A. Lawrence Lowell

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Graduation