Intellectual Quotes

In two senses: One is that you cannot go on the street and shout that you are an atheist, the other is that you are never given the intellectual framework for calling your faith into question.

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

I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing.

Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic concept

Every man who expresses an honest thought is a soldier in the army of intellectual liberty.

Communism and socialism, programs for intellectual control over society ... fascism, a program for the social control of intellect.

the restricting of intellectual and spiritual needs to the mania of progress

In their field they [mathematicians] do what we ought to be doing in ours. Therein lies the significant lesson ... of their existence. They are an analogy for the intellectual of the future.

A crucial contribution to the ideological argument ...it provides a vital part of the intellectual manifesto on which the battle for a better society can be fought

A longer time perspective is needed because we face a daunting task both in an intellectual and practical sense.

The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.

Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of historians; much more than that it does not expect, nor often get.

He said that few people had intellectual resources sufficient to forgo the pleasures of wine. They could not otherwise contrive how to fill the interval between dinner and supper.

He is a fool who thinks by force or skill To turn the current of a woman's will.

Inspiration pushes me out of my tight intellectual comfort zone and into humility, the wonderous state of not knowing. From this place of zero, limitless possibilities seem to arise.

There was not an awareness of pop culture in the household. There was a lot of respect for working hard, and for intellectual and professional achievement.

Chess is a form of intellectual productiveness, therein lies its peculiar charm. Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy.

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.

In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

One should be intelligent enough to know when not to be too intellectual

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.

Fundamentalism is rigorously and systematically used to indoctrinate and subjugate young minds. It is a contraceptive designed to prevent intellectual fertilization.

I got very interested in people who had discovered something more significant than ... intellectual, abstract understanding.

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

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.

Skepticism means, not intellectual doubt alone, but moral doubt.

Skepticism . . . is not intellectual only it is moral also, a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul.

It's been mentioned or suggested that Paradise will not be well studied, because it's about this unimportant intellectual topic, which is religion.

Who knows but we may count among our intellectual chickens Like them an Earl of Thackeray and p'raps a Duke of Dickens

The audience is a very curious animal. It is shrewd rather than intelligent. Its mental capacity is less than that of its most intellectual members.

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.

My emotional and intellectual response to Hiroshima was that the question of the social responsibility of a journalist was posed with greater urgency than ever.

An intellectual hate is the worst.

Men of gravity are intellectual stammerers, whose thoughts move slowly.

Reading is my passion and my escape since I was 5 years old. Overall, children don't realize the magic that can live inside their own heads. Better even then any movie.

I hate it that Americans are taught to fear some books and some ideas as though they were diseases.

Owning the intellectual property is like owning land: You need to keep investing in it again and again to get a payoff; you can't simply sit back and collect rent.

In companies whose wealth is intellectual capital, networks, rather than hierarchies, are the right organizational design.

A philosopher is a sort of intellectual yokel who gawks at things that sensible people take for granted.

The factor in human life provocative of a noble discontent is the gradual emergence of a sense of criticism, founded upon appreciation of beauty, and of intellectual distinction, and of duty.

Our job is not to worship history and culture like fetishes, but to feed them into our living, creative stream of personal life for spiritual and intellectual reprocessing.

Reading is not simply an intellectual pursuit but an emotional and spiritual one. It lights the candle in the hurricane lamp of self; that's why it survives

And why should he interest himself at all in my moral and intellectual capacities: what is it to him what I think and feel?' I asked myself. And my heart throbbed in answer to the question.

The attainment of truth is then the function of both the intellectual parts of the soul. Therefore their respective virtues are those dispositions which will best qualify them to attain truth.

In the Sanghi family, there is no one who has undertaken intellectual pursuits.

When I won the World Championship in '72, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country.

Your physical, mental and intellectual resources - continually growing and changing - are your personal capital.

The measure of our intellectual capacity is the capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better and better problems.

The trouble is the kind of guy I want to go out with doesn't even exist... Like a rugged, chain-smoking, intellectual, adventurer guy who's really serious, but also really funny and mean.

Yeah, the New York Times is very intellectual and very, very prestigious, but it doesn't reach the market that People magazine does