Famous quotes containing the words intellectual, minority and/or america:
“The intellectual knowledge of eternal things pertains to wisdom; the rational knowledge of temporal things, to science.”
—St. Augustine (354–430)
“A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.”
—Walter Lippmann (1889–1974)