Intellectual Quotes

As intellectual as we think we are, you still trip, we still have human foibles, sexuality, all the different things to still make you aware of your humanity.

During periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights which give so much joy and delight.

The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater.

Agitation is that part of our intellectual life where vitality results; there ideas are born, breed and bring forth.

[T]he more one is conscious of one's political bias, the more chance one has of acting politically without sacrificing one's aesthetic and intellectual integrity.

The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.

Society is not merely a select body of spiritual or intellectual persons, but a great organism composed of all kinds of members, a net containing bad and good.

Intellectual liberty [is] the right to think right and the right to think wrong. Thought is the means by which we endeavor to arrive at truth.

In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side-by-side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand.

A touchstone to determine the actual worth of an "intellectual" - find out how he feels about astrology.

Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.

The simple sense of wonder at the shapes of things, and at their exuberant independence of our intellectual standards and our trivial definitions, is the basis of spirituality.

People die when curiosity goes.

Millions of people toil in the shadow of the law we make, and much of their livelihood is made possible by the existence of intellectual property rights.

The scientific study of Nature tends not only to correct and ennoble the intellectual conceptions of man; it serves also to ameliorate his physical condition.

I want to read a lot of books and not live lazily. I want to become intellectual.

Intellectual slavery, of whatever nature it may be, will always have as a natural result both political and social slavery.

Voting is as much an emotional act as it is an intellectual one.

An intellectual may be interested in ideas and policies for their own sake, but a politician's interest is exclusively in the question of whether an idea's time has come.

Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention.

If I can't find a theme, I can't make a film anyone else will feel. I can't laugh at intellectual humor. I'm just corny enough to like to have a story hit me over the heart.

I think one of the unique aspects of Catholic school education is the opportunity to care for the material and intellectual needs of the child in a community atmosphere.

What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.

[Antonio] Gramsci's words and actions explain their assessment, though I think we should refrain from using the term "model intellectual" for him or others.

To get people emotionally involved in something intellectual and political is important.

One of the things that characterizes good intellectual work is a certain self-importance

It is through the acceptance of a variety of aethetic and intellectual points of view that a culture is given breadth and density.

We must be both rational and intellectual, both analytic and imaginative, utilizing both statistics and insight.

The intellectual is an individual with a specific public role in society that cannot be reduced simply to . . a faceless professional.

I'm not an intellectual composer.

The more serious the illness, the more important it is for you to fight back, mobilizing all your resources-spiritual, emotional, intellectual, physical.

Anti-Catholicism is the anti-Semitism of the intellectual.

A good reliable set of bowels is worth more to a man than any quantity of brains.

The contraction of theological influence has been at once the best measure, and the essential condition of intellectual advance.

I believe it was Gayelord Hauser, the nutritionist, who said, 'You are what you eat,' but if you happen to be an intellectual, you are what you quote.

To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.

It is almost an intellectual tradition to pay heed to the insane. In my case those that I most respect are the morons.

Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered.

Wisdom is corrupted by ambition, even when the quality of the ambition is intellectual. For ambition, even of this quality, is but a form of self-love.

Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.

The restriction of knowledge to an elite group destroys the spirit of the society and leads to its intellectual impoverishment.

Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser's gains are ours without his cares. Thus I have soared above this world, where my enjoyments have been intellectual joys.

Out of the nursery into the college and back into the nursery; there’s your intellectual pattern for the past five centuries or more.

For emotional reasons, connected with my affection for my parents, I was a reluctant atheist, but giving up religion brought peace of mind because intellectual conflict was resolved.

We bring together the best ideas - turning the meetings of our top managers into intellectual orgies.

It is quite clear that compelling content, which is made available on economic terms that respect the intellectual rights of owners, can be a tremendous spur to the growth of broadband networks.

The price paid for intellectual pacification is the sacrifice of the entire moral courage of the human mind.

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.

I set it down as a maxim, that it is good for a man to live where he can meet his betters, intellectual and social.

Thank you for explaining that my eye cancer isn't going to make me deaf. I feel so fortunate that an intellectual giant like yourself would deign to operate on me.