Intellectual Quotes

Objects are inorganic and biological values; subjects are social and intellectual values.

... the novel is called upon like no other art form to incorporate the intellectual content of an age.

You want to think about certain styles of music as being reflective of a certain culture or a certain time or a point of view. You don't want it to be just an intellectual exercise.

Freud "interpreted" dreams by treating them as intellectual riddles whose details, once processed through free association, exposed hidden wishes.

I'm too intellectual. I don't think that the theological vocabulary is as important as the experience.

Every young writer, I imagine, has their first intellectual magazine, whose essays and articles are devoured all the more greedily for being slightly over one's head. Mine was First Things.

I read a lot of G.K. Chesterton. It was a fairly conventional intellectual path to the Catholic church, I would say.

The left has so corrupted everything it's touched. Even its highest ranking intellectual members are loony.

Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.

Everybody has values. Now, you know it may be formed in a secular setting, it may be formed in an intellectual setting, but everybody comes forward with values.

This was a time of great intellectual excitement for me. Both college and law school opened up new worlds of ideas.

The takeover of Harvard in 1805 by the Unitarians is probably the most important intellectual event in American history - at least from the standpoint of education

The moral and intellectual character of the Africans is widely different in different nations.

Life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his senses can afford.

Memory is the primary and fundamental power, without which there could be no other intellectual operation.

We owe to memory not only the increase of our knowledge, and our progress in rational inquiries, but many other intellectual pleasures

The appointment [in Harvard] gave me economic safety, writerly support, and intellectual self-respectplus eight months to myself every year.

Intellectual discourse and investigation is admittedly great fun but only truly meaningful when conducted in the service of others.

Intellectual adherence is never owed to anything whatsoever, for it is never in any degree a voluntary thing. Attention alone is voluntary. It alone forms the subject of an obligation.

If we ever do find a complete theory of the universe, it would be a great triumph of human reason but it wouldn't leave much for us to do. We need an intellectual challenge.

The telephone is the greatest single enemy of scholarship; for what our intellectual forebears used to inscribe in ink now goes once over a wire into permanent oblivion.

...writing fiction...is no job for intellectual cowards.

Bloom never pissed me off because there are critics out there, and he's one of them, who take their ignorance about popular culture as a badge of intellectual prowess.

In my twenties, my pleasures tended to be physical. In my thirties, my pleasures tended to be intellectual. I can't say which was more exquisite.

There's guilt about our treatment of native peoples in modern intellectual life, and an unwillingness to acknowledge there could be anything good about Western culture.

The animal has no intellectual capacity to justify or to find reasons to exist. An animal just exists because it's the natural thing to do.

Gide and I have attained such perfect intellectual communion that I experience the appropriate labor pains for every thought he gives birth to!

The intellectual treatment of any datum, any experience, any subject, is determined by the nature of our questions, and only carried out in the answers.

A man must not only have faith but intellectual faith too. To make a man take up everything and believe it, would be to make him a lunatic.

I'm usually taken for a non-intellectual, a person of limited intelligence. I don't know why, but I figure it's because physically I don't look intelligent.

I can't imagine a secular life, a spiritual life, an intellectual life, a physical life. I mean, we would be completely wrought with schizophrenia, wouldn't we?

The ascendency of the sacerdotal order was long the ascendency which naturally and properly belonged to intellectual superiority.

To be a really good historian is perhaps the rarest of intellectual distinctions.

Shakespeare is an intellectual miracle.

Either the human being must suffer and struggle as the price of a more searching vision, or his gaze must be shallow and without intellectual revelation.

While I'm impressed with the length of those legs, she's not an intellectual giant.

People may talk about intellectual teaching, but what we principally want is the moral teaching.

There is far too much of the feeding-bottle in education and young people ought to be supplied with good intellectual food and then left to help themselves.

I do think that philosophy and science are very different intellectual enterprises, but that does not mean that when we get knowledge from philosophy it is a different kind of knowledge.

Unlike art which contains a message, wine conveys nothing, it has no intellectual or cognitive content

The removal of religion as history from our schoolbooks betrays the intellectual dishonesty of secular humanist educators and reveals their blind hostility to Christianity.

I think that what's so interesting about her is that she took to an extreme her embrace of peasant life even though she was a singing and dancing European intellectual.

If you want to be an athlete, then getting good grades, going to college, and developing your intellectual skills are important.

Make no mistake about it: Law school is not a bastion of intellectual discourse.

I never had an intellectual struggle with the Bible, with the gospel, with the claims of Christ.

I'm not an ensemble actor, because it's always a lot of ego when you're all together in the scene. It's kind of intellectual fighting for something.

All of us were slowly losing that intellectual light that allows you always to tell the similar from the identical, the metaphorical from the real.

There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side.

I have some intellectual-type pursuits, like studying philosophy and stuff like that.

I'm not an intellectual, I'm just a writer.