Intellectual Quotes
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.
I say that I represent this movement because my intellectual allegiances are clearly European, not African.
Men are not narrow in their intellectual interests by nature; it takes special and rigorous training to accomplish that end.
The extreme geniality of San Francisco's economic, intellectual and political climate makes it the most varied and challenging city in the United States.
Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties.
Belief, in one of its accepted senses, may consist in a merely intellectual assent, while faith implies such confidence and conviction as will impel to action.
Some men tend to cling to old intellectual excitements, just as some belles, when they are old ladies, still cling to the fashions and coiffures of their exciting youth.
The Republicans, in the various arguments, repeat exactly the same phrases one after another, with no sense of embarrassment, no sense of shame, no sense of intellectual integrity.
In no instance is there to be a musical or opera of Inherit the Wind because it doesn't sing. It's an intellectual play.
Can I reject everything my brain experienced? Is intellectual understanding any understanding at all?
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.
Veneration of Mark Twain is one of the roots of our current intellectual stalemate.
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.
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.
Almost all rich veins of original and striking speculation have been opened by systematic half-thinkers.
I was anti-intellectual to the nth. Basically I liked to dance and paint, and that was about it.
Amherst was pivotal in my broad intellectual development; MIT in my development as a professional economist.
Compassion is not feeling sorry for others. It's not soft. It requires an intellectual effort.
It was always said that the big distinction between the French and the English is that the English are intelligent and the French are intellectual.
You are welcome to your intellectual pastimes and books and art and newspapers; welcome, too, to your bars and your whisky that only makes me ill. Here am I in the forest, quite content.
It's what I call "mental masturbation", when you engage is some pointless intellectual exercise that has no possible meaning.
If you don't set your writing - teaching - at a level that makes them stretch, they are never going to develop their intellectual muscle.
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.
Intellectual ''work'' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.
I don't want to escape via intellectual ruses – I want affirmations via passionate embraces & you can't have life unless you live it.
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.
Ads represent the main channel of intellectual and artistic effort in the modern world.
Sociopathy is the inability to process emotional experience, including love and caring, except when such experience can be calculated as a coldly intellectual task.
As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted.
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.
The show is not a history lesson or intellectual exploration. It is entertainment based on tension, irony and storytelling that is closely related to today’s life.
My dad was more, "Let's play chess. Read a book, you're stupid." He's more the intellectual type.
Healthy relationships should always begin at the spiritual and intellectual levels - the levels of purpose, motivation, interests, dreams,and personality.
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.
Whether the person should then be called "an intellectual" seems to reduce the issue to a question of terminology.
For me this is the vital litmus test: no intellectual society can flourish where a Jew feels even slightly uneasy.
The purpose of art is to collide the intellectual and visceral together at the highest speed possible.
I try to be feminine, yet intellectual and smart at the same time. You don't see enough of that.
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.
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.
We live in what may be the most anti-intellectual period in the history of Western civilization.
The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.