Intellectual Quotes

It's not the most intellectual job in the world, but I do have to know the letters.

Debating is not an honest intellectual exercise. It's like a trial in which the goal is not to get to the truth but to win.

Intellectual effort gives me enormous pleasure

I am still happy to be close to the city, [to be] connected to the intellectual source in Ferndorf. In this area, [I feel] connected with nature and unimportant in a postitive way.

Intellectual disgrace Stares from every human face, And the seas of pity lie Locked and frozen in each eye.

To the man-in-the-street, who, I'm sorry to say, is a keen observer of life. The word Intellectual suggests straight away. A man who's untrue to his wife.

Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage - not intellectual courage, but just plain physical courage.

What could be more advantageous in an intellectual contest - whether it be chess, bridge, or stock selection - than to have opponents who have been taught that thinking is a waste of energy?

Imprisonment in the contemporary is the worst of all intellectual tyrannies.

Persons of slender intellectual stamina dread competition, as dwarfs are afraid of being run over in the street.

In love we do not think of moral qualities, and scarcely of intellectual ones. Temperament and manner alone, with beauty, excite love.

All of our life is but a mass of small habits - practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual - that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.

Conversion is in its essence a normal adolescent phenomenon, incidental to the passage from the child's small universe to the wider intellectual and spiritual life of maturity.

The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.

The moral spectacle of capitalism still offends, as does American capitalism's implacable insistence that the market determine value even in the political, intellectual, and artistic spheres.

A book should have an intellectual shape and a heft that comes with dealing with a primary subject.

I'm not known for my intellectual range and tricks have been played on me.

He was not so much brain as earwax

Literature is a comprehensive essence of the intellectual life of a nation.

The intellectual power, through words and things, Went sounding on a dim and perilous way!

Intelligence is a way of thinking, not a choice of words.

excuse my enthusiasm or rather madness, for I am really drunk with intellectual vision whenever I take a pencil or graver into my hand.

A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible.

Communism...muat of necessity be a saddening process for anyone who has ever tasted the intellectual pleasures of the world we live in.

Hypocrisy has its place in the ages of strong belief: in which even when one is compelled to exhibit a different belief one does not abandon the belief on already has.

The writer has to die to give birth to the intellectual in the service of the wretched of the earth.

Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn

Being a fool is a billion times better than being blinded by the illusion of intellect.

Intellectual death is endemic in areas where people are not prepared to gain new information for development. Learning is the intervention!

Misfortunes make us wise

It's difficult being an intellectual in a bread and butter sort of town.

Belief is a wonderful way to pass the time until the facts come in.

People who are not blessed with the ability to make others laugh compensate for that by saying (or trying to say) things that are profound.

Seldom do we embrace a new idea, especially one of a religious nature.

If education were the same as information, the encyclopedias would be the greatest sages in the world.

Education enables the humans to achieve their fullest mental and physical potential in both personal and social life.

How could we have found, who we really are, without education?

How could we have developed our intellectual skills without education?

Knowledge is intellectual art.

The next presumption is always valid: one's knowledge corresponds toone's intellectual capacity.

Intellectual capacity is a precondition for becoming a man of knowledge.

Knowledge is very vital in life's transformation and transition

It doesn't matter how wealthy you may be in material things, what matters is do you know what to do with those wealth?

To achieve patent commercialization success, every inventor must think like a business man

A wise man loves any kind of work, be it spiritual, physical or intellectual

History, too, has a penchant for giving birth to itself over and over again, and those whom it appoints agents of change and progress do not always accept their destinies willingly.

Be silent & you are considered on idiot. Be voluble & you are considered a nuisance. The perfect balance between speaking and remaining silent makes you a gentleman!

In my view, ideas and other intellectual productions are more interesting, more indicative of intelligence, and more productively debated than IQ alone.

A word to the unwise.Torch every book.Char every page.Burn every word to ash.Ideas are incombustible.And therein lies your real fear.

A professional headshot in front of a bookshelf says you're an intellectual. A professional headshot peeking though a bookshelf says you're probably under a restraining order.