Intellectual Quotes

The 'free-floating intellectual' may occupy himself with problems because of their inherent interest and importance, perhaps to little effect.

I don't like the intellectual label.

You don't get to be a respected intellectual by uttering truisms in monosyllables.

My intellectual achievement was retarded when I went to high school. I sort of sank into a black hole because I had to go to the high-achieving, academic public high school.

The IMF economists were doubtless shaken by the extreme failures of their prescriptions over many years, and by the collapse of the intellectual edifice of economic theory on which they were relying.

Our whole educational and cultural system is not designed to provide those intellectual tools, so people are often lost and the internet often becomes kind of a cult generator.

Edward Said is a very honorable representative of the "intellectual" in the sense of the term that he defines.

The intellectual world is deeply conformist... We talk a lot about the crimes of others. When it comes to our own crimes, we are nationalists in the Orwellian sense.

He must have been an incredibly good shot.

A careful reading of 50 Simple Things leaves you wondering whether you're going to die from environmental disaster or intellectual annoyance. Failing either, you can worry yourself to death.

The Republican convention, an event with the intellectual content of a Guns'n'Roses lyric attended by every ofay insurance brokerin America who owns a pair of white shoes.

I'm not intellectual at all as a designer. Whatever I'm into at the moment is usually what becomes the collection.

General [James] Mattis has got a really intellectual mindset about how the United States should go about protecting its national security.

Christianity is not a purely intellectual, internal faith. It can only be lived in community.

When I was a seminarian, I was dazzled by a girl I met at an uncle’s wedding. I was surprised by her beauty, her intellectual brilliance… and, well, I was bowled over for quite a while.

Prison Notebooks gives me a basic understanding of how power can influence people through cultural products and intellectual groups, so they will voluntarily support the hegemony.

My sense of designing is a mix of intuition and intellectual control.

Intellectual understanding does not always bring visceral belief.

Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.

I am thoroughly sick of pearls. They make one look so plain, so good and so intellectual.

What is mind but motion in the intellectual sphere?

The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value.

Love for the Lord is not an ethereal, intellectual, dreamlike thing; it is the intensest, most vital, most passionate love of which the human heart is capable.

Unbelief is judged by Jesus not as an intellectual error but as a hostile act of prejudice against God himself.

I think ideas only lead to change for intellectual people; and not even them. What really leads to change is experience. Life itself is the teacher.

Faith in God goes beyond intellectual presentation and logic.

I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual.

The English mind is intelligent rather than intellectual. The French are intellectual in the sense that the intellect is emancipated and left free to run its own course.

Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity. If a man should consider the nicety of the passage of a piece of bread down his throat, he would starve.

We hear eagerly every thought and word quoted from an intellectual man. But in his presence our own mind is roused to activity, and we forget very fast what he says.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

A man known to us only as a celebrity in politics or in trade, gains largely in our esteem if we discover that he has some intellectual taste or skill.

A new degree of intellectual power seems cheap at any price.

Life is not intellectual or critical, but sturdy. Its chief good is for well-mixed people who can enjoy what they find, without question.

Besides the general infusion of wit to heighten civility, the direct splendor of intellectual power is ever welcome in fine society, as the costliest addition to its rule and its credit.

The intellectual controls the spiritual, the animal respects the natural.

Plato's concern is not just an intellectual issue, but it is knitted with emotional life as well.

Women don't require motives that are comprehensible to my intellectual processes.

Any political situation has many sides... We intellectualize the whole situation any way... We make our intellectual decisions based on our cultural background and how we live.

To play a role where you get to reveal intellectual change is wonderful.

Even now, the irony that so non-intellectual a man should choose to engage the Soviet Union on the battlefield of ideas has eluded most commentators and historians.

Of metaphors, those generally conduce most to energy or vivacity of style which illustrate an intellectual by a sensible object.

Great sport has intellectual beauty.

I think comedy has to be an intellectual pursuit. It comes down to logic and analysis. As soon as it becomes emotional, it's not comedy anymore.

I came from a very intellectual neighborhood. When we played cowboys and Indians as kids, I had to be Gandhi.

Intellectual liberty is the air of the soul, the sunshine of the mind, and without it, the world is a prison, the universe is a dungeon.

The history of intellectual progress is written in the lives of infidels.

By physical liberty I mean the right to do anything which does not interfere with the happiness of another. By intellectual liberty I mean the right to think and the right to think wrong.

Within a Metaphysics of Quality, science is a set of static intellectual patterns describing this reality, but the patterns are not the reality they describe.

Squareness is such a uniquely intellectual disease.