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.

There is, therefore, a more perfect intellectual life in the angels. In them the intellect does not proceed to self-knowledge from anything exterior, but knows itself through itself.

The best causes tend to attract to their support the worst arguments, which seems to be equally true in the intellectual and in the moral sense.

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

Greed probably figures in my intellectual life as well, as I attempt to absorb a massive amount of information with consequent mental indigestion.

The moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers.

The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - taking an intellectual form.

To be black and an intellectual in America is to live in a box. On the box is a label, not of my own choosing.

We are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance. Our intercourse with intellectual nature is necessary; our speculations upon matter are voluntary, and at leisure.

Eco sees the intellectual as an organizer of culture, someone who can run a magazine or a museum. An administrator, in fact. I think this is a melancholy situation for an intellectual.

To curtail free expression strikes twice at intellectual freedom, for whoever deprives another of the right to state unpopular views necessarily deprives others of the right to listen to those views.

The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries.

It is because the fight against the harshest aspects of unrestricted capitalism is therefore a political problem and not an intellectual one that community action remains so essential.

I've been called many things, but never an intellectual.

There are some remarks that are so stupid that to be even vaguely aware of them is the intellectual equivalent of living next door to Chernobyl.

The true traveller is the one urged to move about for physical, aesthetic, intellectual as well as spiritual reasons.

God can be seen Even by the poorest fool, But not by the self-styled, God-arguing Intellectual giants.

The high intellectual value of images, however, lies in the fact that they usually, and perhaps always, fit more than one actual experience.

Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches.

I hate intellectual discussion. When I hear the words 'phenomenology' or 'structuralism', I reach for my buck knife.

(Politeness is) a tacit agreement that people's miserable defects, whether moral or intellectual, shall on either side be ignored and not be made the subject of reproach.

Mr. Fulbright hasn't said anything new or interesting or clever in five years; his intellectual well dried up the day after Walter Lippmann stopped writing his regular column.

There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated.

If China wants to be a constructive, active player in the world economy, it's got to respect intellectual property rights or it makes it pretty impossible to do business with them.

My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties.

The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters.

The few bright meteors in man's intellectual horizon could well be matched by women, were she allowed to occupy the same elevated position.

I suppose I've always carried what is regarded as a bit of unnecessary baggage in Britain. I've always carried the charge that I am an intellectual in politics.

Investors should start with a view of skepticism. They should become intellectual investors rather than emotional investors. They should be careful, and they should be skeptical.

History is an indispensable even though not the highest form of intellectual endeavor.

Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity.

It's not enough to be able to spell "magnificence" in your bedroom. You have to be able to spell it at the microphone during the spelling bee.

...as man under pressure tends to give in to physical and intellectual weakness, only great strength of will can lead to the objective.

You make all the fashion statements just by dressing up your mind.

Banning books is just another form of bullying. It's all about fear and an assumption of power. The key is to address the fear and deny the power.

Intellectual property is an important legal and cultural issue. Society as a whole has complex issues to face here: private ownership vs. open source, and so on.

I wouldn't describe that "position" as "parasitic." I'd describe that experience as "edifying." I don't merely write from a critical intellectual distance. I actually live around here.

In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity - or, which is just as satisfying, unpopularity - by being opinionated rather than by being learned.

To Islamize doesn't make sense to me. But to center, but to have intellectual empathy and modesty - all these dimensions are important on how we look at truth.

As a man may be eating all day, and for want of digestion is never nourished, so these endless readers may cram themselves in vain with intellectual food.

Am I an intellectual? I don't think so. Less than people sometimes think, I have to say. But more than some others think.

I know some real intellectual people who might laugh, very close friends who might laugh when I'm said to be an intellectual.

Mathematics is an interesting intellectual sport but it should not be allowed to stand in the way of obtaining sensible information about physical processes.

... it is a welcome symptom in an age which is commonly denounced as materialistic, that it makes heroes of men whose goals lie wholly in the intellectual and moral sphere.

For me this is the vital litmus test: no intellectual society can flourish where a Jew feels even slightly uneasy.

As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted.

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

Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness, but I don't argue with it - especially as I am rarely in a position to prove that it is mistaken. Negative proof is usually impossible.

It is only through the opposition of ideas that we can learn to be self-critical, to work towards intellectual humility.

I say that I represent this movement because my intellectual allegiances are clearly European, not African.