Intellectual Quotes

The rare scholars who are nomads-by-choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines.

I've seen it over the years, the more intellectual they are, the more work they don't want to do. You have to do both, you have to be able to put in the graft.

[Kant] was like many people: in intellectual matters he was skeptical, but in moral matters he believed imjplicitly in the maximx that he had imbibed at his mother's knee.

Envy ... is one form of a vice, partly moral, partly intellectual, which consists in seeing things never in themselves but only in their relations.

I wish I knew as much about anything today as I knew about everything when I was twenty.

Somewhere between the intellectual idea of why we're attracted to certain things and the pragmatic reality is some form of ever-evolving truth.

There is a vast difference between intellectual belief and the total conversion that saves the soul.

I'm not like a high intellectual. That's the thing.

I'm not like a high intellectual.

It's hard to get into Newsweek because, as more of our former intellectual magazines take on a pop focus, if there's no buzz, there's no interest.

Confucianism is all about tempering your instincts with intellectual discipline, with book learning.

That's the funny thing about cinema, it is an intellectual medium, but it's also sort of anti-intellectual.

I was moving among two groups... who had almost ceased to communicate at all, who in intellectual, moral, and psychological climate had so little in common that... one might have crossed the ocean.

In today's impoverished dialogue, critiques of liberalism are often naively called "conservative," as if twenty-five hundred years of Western intellectual tradition presented no other alternatives.

Where execution is dominant, as it is in the individual events of a war whether great or small, then intellectual factors are reduced to a minimum.

Their opposition to Christianity is not intellectual. They simply do not want Christ to reign over them!

Fashion should be fun. It shouldn't be labelled 'intellectual.'

The backwardness of our religious and social developments is undoubtedly holding back the development of the intellectual and political levels.

Where [Albert Camus] is in exile isn't especially in Paris or elsewhere, but from the intellectual world, because of his origins.

[R]ights do not belong to men simply as men, but because of the superior qualities, physical, intellectual, moral or political, which are characteristic of certain individuals or races.

When we attempt to find meaning in the pursuit of pleasure, the commitment to a job, or through plumbing intellectual depths, we all eventually find in each of these pursuits a dead end.

And what, then, is belief? It is the demi-cadence which closes a musical phrase in the symphony of our intellectual life.

It is only the constant exertion and working of our sensitive, intellectual, moral, and physical machinery that keeps us from rusting, and so becoming useless.

These esoteric, intellectual debates-I want them to come to New Jersey and sit across from the widows and the orphans and have that conversation.

I like intellectual journeys.

The reason that people in the intellectual community argue that football is dangerous is because there's now a large swath of society that has no relationship to physicality or potential violence.

Our ideas are only intellectual instruments which we use to break into phenomena; we must change them when they have served their purpose, as we change a blunt lancet that we have used long enough.

Acting is an animal thing, not an intellectual thing.

I don't really get into a big intellectual analysis of why I am going to do a certain script or not.

I must feel the fire of my soul so my intellectual blues can set others on fire.

Sometimes it's smart to be scared.

The teacher can always tell when you did your homework on the bus.

Getting lost teaches you how to read a map.

In the end, there's something of the puritan work ethic about me that roles really must sustain me on an intellectual level.

Teaching is been seen as kind of a moral calling and not as an intellectual job.

I have to really think hard about how to structure sentences, and do more mapping when I sit down to write, so it does impose a certain discipline, intellectual and linguistic.

We must abandon the prevalent belief in the superior wisdom of the ignorant.

Awards movies are normally sort of... life-affirming and noble. It's probably too much of an intellectual conceit and, you know, people don't like it when you don't lead the bad guy off in cuffs.

[On Cantor's work:] The finest product of mathematical genius and one of the supreme achievements of purely intellectual human activity.

Successful ecologists are successful in part because they have prepared their minds to attack scientific problems using a variety of intellectual tools.

My work is heavily influenced by critiques that many critical intellectual traditions, especially Critical Race Theory, have made of reform projects focused on legal equality.

Loud, stupid and overeating will suffice as long as we also have the funny, the fierce and the intellectual

I have spent a good part of my life showing what an intellectual bubble the Left lives in.

I would not ever try to be a show intellectual, which I was accused of doing a while on ABC. I thought you were supposed to read the guests' books.

There's a big anti-intellectual strain in the American south, and there always has been. We're not big on thought.

We cannot pursue a classical and Christian education as a fad. We are not purchasing intellectual hula hoops for the kids.

In their capacity as a tool, computers will be but a ripple on the surface of our culture. In their capacity as intellectual challenge, they are without precedent in the cultural history of mankind.

That the sweetly intoxicating three-four rhythm which took hold of hand & foot, necessarily eclipsed great & serious music & made the audience unfit for any intellectual effort goes without saying.

How could anything non-controversial be of intellectual interest to grown-ups?

I am certainly not an intellectual relativist, nor a moral relativist.