Intellectual Quotes

Intellectual Quote of the day

There is no need for propaganda to be rich in intellectual content.

When children attend schools that place a greater value on discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending prep schools for prison.

Human learning presupposes a specific social nature and a process by which children grow into the intellectual life of those around them

A man rejects God neither because of intellectual demands nor because of the scarcity of evidence. A man rejects God because of a moral resistance that refuses to admit his need for God.

Growth comes from activity, not from intellectual understanding.

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.

There's nothing on it worthwhile, and we're not going to watch it in this household, and I don't want it in your intellectual diet.

Intellectual is a parrot; wise man is a crow. One is repetitive; other is creative!

We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields.

The intellectual, the moral, the religious seem to me all naturally bound up and interlinked together in one great and harmonious whole.

The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers.

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.

Intellectual activity is a danger to the building of character.

I love the intellectual type. They know everything and suspect nothing.

Intellectual elegance [is] a mind that is continually refining itself with education and knowledge. Intellectual elegance is the opposite of intellectual vulgarity.

When the intellectual part of guitar playing overrides the spiritual, you don't get to extreme heights.

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, 'I was wrong'.

Woman's great mission is to train immature, weak and ignorant creatures to obey the laws of God; the physical, the intellectual, the social and the moral.

If you have insight, you use your inner eye, your inner ear, to pierce to the heart of things, and have no need of intellectual knowledge.

It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble.

Reduce intellectual and emotional noise until you arrive at the silence of yourself and listen to it.

Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition.

All the civilizations we know have been created and directed by small intellectual aristocracies, never by people in the mass. The power of crowds is only to destroy.

Teaching is the canny art of intellectual temptation

Mystery is an intellectual process... But suspense is essentially an emotional process.

If only everyone could know and live with their inner craziness. Would the world be a worse place for it? No, people would be fairer and happier.

I refuse to engage in an intellectual battle with an unarmed man.

I wanted to do something far from my intellectual and physical home, so I went to live in Beijing for eight months and took Mandarin Chinese.

You will not persuade me with appeals to my intellectual vanity.

The rapists of the intellectual world become politicians; the seducers become artists.

All propaganda must be popular and its intellectual level must be adjusted to the most limited intelligence among those it is addressed to.

Every mind has a horizon in respect to its present intellectual capacity but not in respect to its future intellectual capacity.

To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.

Blind belief can be comforting, but it can easily cripple reason and productivity, and stop intellectual progress.

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

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot.

A social democratic party without deep roots in the working class movement would quickly fade into an unrepresentative intellectual sect

One can remain alive ... if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity interested in big things and happy in small ways.

Be wary of the arrogant intellectual who comments from the stands without having played on the field.

Deafness, though it be total and congenital, imposes no limits on the intellectual development of its subjects, save in the single direction of the appreciation of acoustic phenomena.

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.

The intellectual advancement of man depends on how often he can exchange an old superstition for a new truth.

Never confuse faith, or belief — of any kind — with something even remotely intellectual.

Collaboration operates through a process in which the successful intellectual achievements of one person arouse the intellectual passions and enthusiasms of others.

Look, I'm not an intellectual - I just take pictures.

Intellectual passion dries out sensuality.

We're intellectual opposites. Well, I'm intellectual and you're opposite.

One day I heard a speech of Hitler. In this speech he said that the German factory worker and the German labourer must make common cause with the German intellectual worker.

There is iconoclasm in the excessively intellectual, and they delight in destroying their dearest moral or sentimental idols, the better to prove their strength.