Intellectual Quotes

Having the freedom to read and the freedom to choose is one of the best gifts my parents ever gave me.

People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.

The term "intellectual" is used conventionally to refer to people who happen to have unusual opportunities in this regard, and as always, opportunity confers moral responsibility.

The teacher who allows his scholars the freedom of the city of books is at liberty to be their guide, philosopher and friend; and is no longer the mere instrument of forcible intellectual feeding.

To change something in the minds of people - that's the role of an intellectual.

Western intellectual Islamologists have totally failed in their duties as intellectuals. They have betrayed their calling by abandoning their critical faculties when it comes to Islam.

I was convinced that, besides millions of frank unbelievers, there are today large numbers of half-believers to whom religion is a source of intellectual and moral discomfort.

It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time - for we are bound by that - but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.

Intellectual honesty consists in stating the precise conditions under which one will give up one's belief.

Whatever books you may read, you cannot realize the Divine merely by intellectual effort. Oneness can only be promoted by the practice of love.

... a widespread secularization increasingly descends into a moral, intellectual, and spiritual nihilism that denies not only the One who is the Truth but the very idea of truth itself.

Research must continue to be the centerpiece of intellectual life, and our commitment to research must grow, because our problems are growing.

My message is very simple and universal, not very intellectual, but humane. Just love each other and live.

My pacifism is not based on any intellectual theory but on a deep antipathy to every form of cruelty and hatred.

I believe, indeed, that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and factual, in our education, has led directly to the impairment of ethical values.

Intellectual freedom depends upon material things.

Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility.

It seems to me a fundamental dishonesty, and a fundamental treachery to intellectual integrity to hold a belief because you think it's useful and not because you think it's true.

Self-discipline has a bigger effect on academic performance than does intellectual talent.

To my mind, Guernica is the most important online intellectual and literary journal in America today.

The most dangerous enemy to Israel's security is the intellectual inertia of those who are responsible for security.

Intellectual neutrality is not possible in a historical world of exploitation and oppression.

Society is not homogeneous, and those who do not deliberately close their eyes have to recognize that men differ greatly from one another from the physical, moral, and intellectual viewpoints.

What a revolting contrast exists in England between the slavery of women and the intellectual superiority of women writers.

Postmodernism entices us with the siren call of liberation and creativity, but it may be an invitation to intellectual and moral suicide.

The gas-law of learning: . . . any amount of information no matter how small will fill any intellectual void no matter how large.

There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind.

Faith must become more than a verbal proclamation or an intellectual assent. True faith must be acted out.

The intellectual who no longer feels attached to anything is not satisfied with opinion merely; he wants certainty, he wants a system. The revolution provides him with his opium.

Hamlet and Victor Frankenstein are each obsessed with death. Hamlet's whole story is a philosophical preparation for death; Victor's is an intellectual refusal to accept it.

Within the confines of the lecture hall, no other virtue exists but plain intellectual integrity.

Transparency is not the same as looking straight through a building: it's not just a physical idea, it's also an intellectual one.

If you admit that to silence your opponent by force is to win an intellectual argument, then you admit the right to silence people by force.

For me, photography must be visual, rather than intellectual and ideological.

There is no intellectual road to God...No, we need God to wake us up to our need of a Savior.

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

[ on the "tropicalization" of intellectual property laws ] To make the digital world join in the samba.

Satan's first strategy is to keep religion intellectual.

Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise

Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance

The production of a work of art is determined by the material and intellectual climate in which a man lives and dies.

Intellectual prowess has its limitations. Thus, do not limit the scope of your learning to the realm of the intellect.

When I write my music I see all the rivers flowing... sensual, spiritual, religious, animal, intellectual.

My favorite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence'.

Bass players are always the intellectual kind, but nobody knows it.

An intellectual hatred is the worst.

The joys of theory are the sweetest intellectual pleasures of life

I dislike frontiers, political or intellectual, and I find that ignoring them is an essential catalyst for creative thought. Ideas should flow without hindrance in their natural course.

By ignorance the truth is known.

Art is the inheritance of every individual, it activates evolutionary growth, it is an intellectual virtue, and the fostering principle for all that is made, done, or known.