Intellectual Quotes

My work is never intellectual. I never make a negative unless emotionally moved by my subject.

It only takes a day to change someone from an anti-intellectual to an intellectual by persuading him that he might be one!

I think the more stability a person has, the more they can follow esoteric or intellectual pursuits.

Nobody until very recently would have thought that their husband was supposed to be their best friend, confidante, intellectual soul mate, co-parent, inspiration.

I like clothes that stimulate the senses, fashion that is both exquisite and intellectual.

... health is the obstacle, which ... must stand in the way of a girl's acquiring the intellectual strength, which ... is so invaluable to a boy.

When a person responds emotionally to intellectual things, or emotionally only to traditional emotional things - I find that an interesting break between myself and some other writers and fans.

Nothingis so ungrateful as a rising generation; yet, if there is any faintest glimmer of light ahead of us in the present, itwas kindled by the intellectual fires that burned long before us.

The concrete is better than the abstract. The detail is better than the commonplace. The sensual [through the senses] is better than the intellectual. The visual is better than the mental.

I'm strictly for Stevenson. I don't dig the intellectual bit, but I'm telling you, man, he knows the most.

George Bush's political, intellectual and other shortcomings cannot be restricted to one sentence.

Nothing so offends the doctrinaire intellectual as our ability to achieve the momentous in a matter-of-fact way, unblessed by words.

The fact is that the culture does not have only positive effects on our intellectual and moral functions but also negative effects.

Occasionally, you will be given the chance to be either intellectual or pleasant. Leave being intellectual to others.

Lecturers should remember that the capacity of the mind to absorb is limited to what the seat can endure.

I may turn out an intellectual, but I'll never write anything but mediocre poetry.

I am not indifferent to the appreciation of kind people. [The voters were] extremely kind in naming me the world's top public intellectual, a title to which I can never see myself as entitled.

The study of mathematics is the indispensable basis for all intellectual and spiritual progress.

John Connally's conversion to the GOP raised the intellectual level of both parties.

We hold from God the gift which includes all others. This gift is life - physical, intellectual, and moral life.

The absolute as the idea is neither subjective nor objective; it is the intellectual structure under which they are subsumed.

Today in the west the word 'guru' has come to mean someone who leads a cult, someone who deprives others of their intellectual or spiritual freedom and rips them off financially.

Some people go into tantra with the idea, sort of an intellectual approach, that now they can just do everything and stay high. That doesn't work at all.

Somehow in the middle of the L.A. trendiness, Boston conservation, New York chic and San Francisco intellectual mellow, there's a place where everything meets.

The reason a person is in a particular state of mind is primarily because of attraction and aversion. Attraction and aversion cause us to format a mental or intellectual program.

You have to become that infinite formless creation, which is life, to know it. It cannot be known in an intellectual sense. That is enlightenment.

Who dares to be intellectual in the presence of death?

In a seriously intended intellectual emancipation a person's mute passions and cravings also hope to find their advantage.

In certain pious people I have found a hatred of reason, and have been favourably disposed to them for it: their bad intellectual conscience was at least exposed by that!

I have been tortured with longing to believe ... and the yearning grows stronger the more cogent the intellectual difficulties stand in the way.

I realized that there was an intellectual content in music, a kind of thinking, that I would never be able to hear.

I want to work with non-profits that stimulate growth to the community. Whether it is economic growth, intellectual, or freedom.

Today the term "global" can no longer constitute a serious topic for an in-depth intellectual discussion because it simply means "Camerica".

The man was such an intellectual he was of almost no use.

The function of comedy is to dispelunconsciousness by turning the searchlight of the keenest moral and intellectual analysisright on to it.

Education can and should do much influence social, moral and intellectual discovery by stimulating critical attitudes of thought in the young

To fear the examination of any proposition apears to me an intellectual and a moral palsy that will ever hinder the firm grasping of any substance whatever.

It is not true that a man's intellectual power is, like the strength of a timber beam, to be measured by its weakest point.

The Communism of the English intellectual is something explicable enough. It is the patriotism of the deracinated.

I think my very earliest stories were all intellectual exercises and I was writing from experiences I had never had about characters who were about an inch deep.

Music contains a whole gamut of experience, from sensuous elements to ultimate intellectual harmonies.

The sense of ultimate truth is the intellectual counterpart of the esthetic sense of perfect beauty, or the moral sense of perfect good.

There are three intellectual pursuits, and, so far as I am aware, only three, in which human beings have performed major feats before the age of puberty. They are music, mathematics, and chess.

No leader, however great a personality he may be, is as important to a people as their own intellectual development.

Style supposes the reunion and the exercise of all the intellectual faculties. The style is the man.

In chess there is a world of intellectual values.

Marriage is a linchpin in many womens lives, but many other things can create a satisfying life. I adore my career. It stretches every physical, emotional, and intellectual muscle I have.

Ingratitude is surely the chief of the intellectual sins of man. He takes his political benefits for granted, just as he takes the skies and the seasons for granted.

You know, albums are a funny thing. They're not like an intellectual decision. It's a collection of your kind of musings.

The thing which Reagan did, which was great, was he won the people. He marginalized the media. And that's what you need, an intellectual agility.