Intellectual Quotes

It is better to present one image in a lifetime than to produce voluminous work. Image...that which presents an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time.

The mind serves best when it's anchored in the Word of God. There is no danger then of becoming an intellectual without integrity.

Next to the intellectual stimulation of chess, the educational value is of great importance. Chess teaches logic, imagination, self-discipline, and determination.

Concepts and intellectual devices or chops can't mask or conceal an underlying lack of emotive power.

Philosophy, as the modern world knows it, is only intellectual club-swinging.

There's a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics, especially within the sphere of the arts and the theatre.

Baseball is the most intellectual game because most of the action goes on in your head.

... where does strength come from? It is not muscle strength any more. It is not also mere intellectual strength. What is strength? Strength is the support of the people.

Who are a little wise the best fools be.

It seems whenever I've had a method or what I perceived to be an intellectual groundwork of some sort - a kind of game plan - it's always been the most morbid failure.

Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic uninterestingness as an intellectual position.

Each project draws you in on its own merits as opposed to an intellectual choice of, "Well, I'm going to shift from vérité filmmaking to more archival."

Production is not something physical, material, and external; it is a spiritual and intellectual phenomenon.

Intellectual ascent to correct doctrine is not salvation

I'm an intellectual Thatcherite, just as I was an intellectual Powellite, and I think it important that the Conservative party should be in good hands and that it should win elections.

The underlying intellectual argument for seeking to tax economic rents retains its force.

There is a lot lacking on the intellectual side and on the values side when being an actor.

[Marx's theories] gave me a political and intellectual justification for what I believed in a way that nothing else did.

We as a music ­community have our own issues about advocacy, copyright, intellectual ­property, being paid fairly for the work that we do.

There is no intellectual or emotional substitute for the authentic, the original, the unique masterpiece.

The ultimate design of the Mysteries ... was to lead us back to the principles from which we descended, ... a perfect enjoyment of intellectual [spiritual] good.

Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity.

when General Eisenhower defined an intellectual as "a man who takes more words than is necessary to tell more than he knows", he was speaking not as a Republican but as an American.

In intellectual honesty, we should be willing to study and explore the spiritual life with all the rigor and determination we would give to any field of research.

We need a childlike trust that God is good... ultimately we are OK. That is a simple, beautiful pure thing that can be complicated ferociously by all sorts of intellectual categories.

Both total accommodation to the culture and total resistance to it are usually signs of intellectual sickness.

The intellectual quest, though fine as pearl or coral, is not the spiritual search. That spiritual search is on another level. Spiritual wine is a different substance.

Information is not synonymous with knowledge. Information is only data, parts of the whole. Knowledge has a moral imperative to enhance intellectual and spiritual unity.

Intellectual beauty is sufficient unto itself, and only for it rather than for the future good of humanity does the scholar condemn himself to arduous and painful labors.

What we call the freedom of the individual is not just the luxury of one intellectual to write what he likes to write but his being a voice which can speak for those who are silent.

Stronach's fragile beauty belies an emotional strength, pragmatic resiliency, and intellectual courage. Her ideas and choreography are both enigmatic and playful.

There is only one way to receive intellectual respect, and that is to earn it. A degree doesn't mean anything, as there are too many maleducated morons running around with them to impress anyone.

Authors are the vanguard in the march of mind, the intellectual backwoodsmen, reclaiming from the idle wilderness new territories for the thought and activity of their happier brethren.

It is in the intellectual and emotional response, the conscious and subconscious associations of the artist, that the potential power of painting lies.

One of my books is a hallucinogen, an aphrodisiac, a mood elevator, an intellectual garage door opener, and a metaphysical trash compactor. They'll do everything except rotate your tires.

If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.

I like to look good, but I like my body to function well more than anything. For me, it's as spiritual and intellectual as it is physical. And emotional. I enjoy pushing myself.

Love is created and preserved by intellectual analysis, for we love only that which is unique, and it belongs to contemplation, not to action, for we would not change that which we love.

How essential it is in youth to acquire some intellectual or artistic tastes, in order to furnish the mind, to be able to live inside a mind with attractive and interesting pictures on the walls.

The United States may have retained more of the intellectual imprint of the British 18th century than Britain itself.

You are responsible for everything you post and everything you post will be a reflection of you. [Social Media]

Those 'back burner' thoughts, the ones the brain isn't quite sure about yet, may cook the slowest yet they often manage to be the tastiest when they come out.

Religions, themselves, are (intellectual) blasphemies.

Examples of selling of ideas are portrayed in consulting or paid advice, as the pricing of intellectual property is market driven.

Faith is intellectual laziness.

Intellectual curiosity about one's own illness is certainly born of a desire for mastery. If I couldn't cure myself, perhaps I could at least begin to understand myself.

The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other.

No important change in ethics was ever accomplished without an internal chage in our intellectual emphasis, loyalties, affections, and convictions.

The pursuit of truth is just a polite name for the intellectual's favorite pastime of substituting simple and therefore false abstractions for the living complexities of reality.

Policy-making, decision-taking, and control: These are the three functions of management that have intellectual content.