Intellectual Quotes

The more we can do to support and promulgate the intellectual traditions of the Abrahamic faiths - of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - the better armed we will be to fight fundamentalism.

Barack Obama is an intellectual.

We are critical and skeptical. But when we are absorbed in a story, we drop our intellectual guard.

God is back and Europe as a whole still doesn't get it. It is our biggest single collective cultural and intellectual blind spot.

There is no intellectual exercise which is not ultimately useless.

I'm not interested in the fact that a writer may label himself as being intellectual or anti-intellectual. l'm really interested in the stuff he's turning out.

To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. This is the sport, the luxury, special to the intellectual man.

Every intellectual effort sets us apart from the commonplace, and leads us by hidden and difficult paths to secluded spots where we find ourselves amid unaccustomed thoughts.

People should not expect the state to protect them from fraudsters. If we do, we get into the habit of neglecting our own powers of intellectual discernment.

In a knowledge economy, natural selection favors organizations that can most effectively harness and coordinate collective intellectual energy and creative capacity.

When you get a critique, people think you're criticizing them but it's really an intellectual conversation. You can't get emotionally attached.

All our inventions have endowed material forces with intellectual life, and degraded human life into a material force.

I'm not sure that pasteurized thinking is rich enough in intellectual vitamins

The first thing I thought [when I read the script] was that Frasier was an intellectual at some points but also an Everyman - flawed and very insecure.

The spiritual experience isn’t one of filling ourselves up— with either religious or intellectual beliefs—but of emptying ourselves so that we can experience what is, directly, unfiltered.

In The Argonauts, Maggie Nelson turns 'making the personal public' into a romantic, intellectual wet dream. A gorgeous book, inventive, fearless, and full of heart.

Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information.

Our intellectual development in the field of science has outstripped our human development in the field of character.

Learning about the intellectual basis for Christianity bolsters the faith of Christians-espe cially those who may be experiencing doubts-and prepares them to share Christ with others.

I couldn't stand being identified by my sexuality, I retaliated by insisting that people regard me for my intellectual worth. My intellect became a form of damage control.

I love this idea of trying to create that intellectual eroticism. That was what I was working toward all along.

I spend a lot more time than any person should have to talking with lawyers and thinking about intellectual property issues.

You want diversity in any intellectual organization. I mean, that's how good ideas arise.

The art of one period cannot be approached through the attitudes (emotional or intellectual) of another.

Too many composers become involved in intellectual speculation which seems to matter more to them than the sound that comes out of all this speculation.

I think we have the wrong notion of commercial and intellectual or artistic film. Because all films are commercial.

The whole world of thought lay unexplored before me, - a world of which I had already caught large and tempting glimpses.

To answer brutality with brutality is to admit one's moral and intellectual bankruptcy.

Great causes cannot be served by intellectual equipment alone, they call for spiritual effort of soul-force.

Mere mental, that is, intellectual labour, is for the soul and has its own satisfaction.

May not men earn their bread by intellectual labor? No, the needs of the body must be supplied by the body.

Reason cannot remain a bare intellectual faculty; it must become a faculty of judgment dealing with the question of values.

Men's minds must be free, and that means the minds of all, not the minds of a select few.

I would call an intellectual one whose instrument of work - his mind - is also his major source of pleasure; a man whose entertainment is his intelligence.

The pointless ferocities of intellectual life shock businessmen, who kill only to eat.

And amongst us one, Who most has suffer'd, takes dejectedly His seat upon the intellectual throne.

There is a lot of ignorance, and I don't mean intellectual ignorance. I mean people think that if you get something, it will take away from what I have. It's just ignorance.

Thank God I am not an intellectual! What a garbage of knowledge, what an unnecessary glossary of terms they have, those intellectuals!

We're so different. You're an intellectual. I'm an idiot." "Don't say that," I yelled. "You're not an idiot, you stupid idiot.

An abyss seems to have opened between the intellectual cosmopolites of culture and the people, hungry for word and meaning.

Death people who are still alive at this hour, must resurrect and ascend to the intellectual heaven where there is no ignorance.

It is my conviction that physical courage at crucial moments comes from the sum of intellectual courage and integrity that you muster at that moment.

The Soviet experience was much worse than experts in the West had thought. That discovery had a tremendous impact both on the intellectual community and on the public at large.

Terms that are related to individuals like Marxist, or Hegelian, or Bakuninist, or Kropotkinist, are completely outside my intellectual and emotional horizon. I'm a follower of no one.

To be intellectual does not require one to be alienated and oppositional.

I see Lord Buddha doing to our collective spiritual well-being what global trade did to our collective economic well-being and the digital internet did to our collective intellectual well-being.

Scientific literacy is an intellectual vaccine against the claims of charlatans who would exploit ignorance.

Only 50 years ago persons with intellectual disabilities were scorned, isolated and neglected. Today, they are able to attend school, become employed and assimilate into their local community.

I'm an intellectual, but I've always had jobs that required physical labor above all else.

I guess I'm interested in people who are very sophisticated in intellectual ways, while being completely off the mark in emotional ones, with huge blind spots in terms of their own behavior.