Intellectual Quotes
I certainly do have this feeling of affection for the absolute sense of intellectual freedom that exists as a live nerve, a live wire, right through the center of American life.
When tempted to be unfaithful, the intellectual woman will try to inspire her husband with indifference, the sentimental woman with hatred, and the passionate woman with disgust.
When I start writing songs and it turns into an overly belabored intellectual process, I just throw it out.
Curiosity, earnest research to learn the hidden laws of nature, gladness akin to rapture, as they unfolded to me, are among the earliest sensations I can remember.
Stealing music is not right, and I can understand people being very upset about their intellectual property being stolen.
It's been mentioned or suggested that Paradise will not be well studied, because it's about this unimportant intellectual topic, which is religion.
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.
Pure, spiritual, intellectual love shot form their faces like barbedlightning. It was so unlike the love we experience that its expressioncould easily be mistaken for ferocity.
Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.
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.
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.
Amherst was pivotal in my broad intellectual development; MIT in my development as a professional economist.
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.
I'm a bit of a deconstructionist myself. It's kind of exciting - the last intellectual thrill left. Like sawing through the branch you're sitting on.
Men are not narrow in their intellectual interests by nature; it takes special and rigorous training to accomplish that end.
As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted.
For me this is the vital litmus test: no intellectual society can flourish where a Jew feels even slightly uneasy.
Pick up a grain a day and add to your heap. You will soon learn, by happy experience, the power of littles as applied to intellectual processes and gains.
Canada is either an idea or it does not exist. It is either an intellectual undertaking or it is little more than a resource-rich vacuum lying in the buffer zone just north of a great empire.
Veneration of Mark Twain is one of the roots of our current intellectual stalemate.
All this is applicable to the intellectual faculties of man. There is a considerable difference between one person and another as regards these faculties, as is well known to philosophers.
I try to be feminine, yet intellectual and smart at the same time. You don't see enough of that.
Almost all rich veins of original and striking speculation have been opened by systematic half-thinkers.
True religion is slow in growth, and, when once planted, is difficult of dislodgement; but its intellectual counterfeit has no root in itself: it springs up suddenly, it suddenly withers.
In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.
I believe that in every person is a kind of circuit which resonates to intellectual discovery-and the idea is to make that resonance work
I identify with my culture, but I am happy to be living on a tolerant, intellectual island where I can deal with Dostoyevsky and Sartre, both great influences for me.
I think if you look back through the intellectual history of human beings you can trace the way that intellectual technologies influence the way we think.
Zen has nothing to teach us in the way of intellectual analysis; nor has it any set doctrines which are imposed on its followers for acceptance.
Dance exists first on this primordial level, not on an intellectual plane (even though it requires skill and intelligence). Its inmost substance cannot be reasoned, only experienced.
The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.
We always come back to the same vicious circle - an extreme degree of material or intellectual poverty does away with the means of alleviating it.
However, I think anything is better than high intellectual pressure. That is the most unbecoming thing there is. It makes the noses of the young girls so particularly large.
I was anti-intellectual to the nth. Basically I liked to dance and paint, and that was about it.
Can I reject everything my brain experienced? Is intellectual understanding any understanding at all?
Nonviolent Communication shows us a way of being very honest, but without any criticism, without any insults, without any put-downs, without any intellectual diagnosis implying wrongness.
The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.
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