Intellectual Quotes

Health begins with firmness in the body, deepens to emotional stability, then leads to intellectual clarity, wisdom and finally the unveiling of the soul.

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.

History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff - well, it might as well be dead.

My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his intellectual freedom

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.

By ignorance the truth is known.

Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence.

To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of eternal things; to knowledge, the rational knowledge of temporal things.

Deal honestly and objectively with yourself; intellectual honesty and personal courage are the hallmarks of great character.

Aping urbanity, Oozing with vanity, Plump as a manatee, Faking humanity, Intellectual inanity, Journalistic calamity, Fox Noise insanity, You're a profanity, Hannity.

No true manhood can be trained by a merely intellectual process. You cannot train men by the intellect alone; you must train them by the heart.

I desire to assist in attracting to this profession young men of character and ability, also to help those already engaged in the profession to acquire the highest moral and intellectual training

I am not an intellectual. An intellectual is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso, whereas I just say 'pass the mustard'.

Yes, I am positive that one of the great curatives of our evils, our maladies, social, moral, and intellectual, would be a return to the soil, a rehabilitation of the work of the fields.

Intellectual life requires for its expansion and manifestation the influences and assimilation of the interests and affections of others.

There's something I believe wholeheartedly: Cynicism is the true refuge of the pseudo-intellectual, .. Cynicism is easy. Joy is an extremely advanced spiritual and intellectual tenet.

Campuses that were once havens of free speech are now patrolled and regulated by thought police. Intellectual dishonesty has become a job requirement for university administrators.

The most important quality of leadership is intellectual honesty. The reality principle - the ability to see the world as it really is, not as you wish it were.

Our moral virtues benefit mainly other people; intellectual virtues, on the other hand, benefit primarily ourselves; therefore the former make us universally popular, the latter unpopular.

I support copyright. I mean it is intellectual property, it is the thought process of someone and those things should always be protected.

Curiosity, especially intellectual inquisitiveness, is what separates the truly alive from those who are merely going through the motions.

Collective Intelligence (CI) is the capacity of human collectives to engage in intellectual cooperation in order to create, innovate, and invent.

Believe me, the intellectual revolution is going on, and that has to come first before you see the political changes. That's where I'm very optimistic.

To accomplish artistic work, of any individual worth, nature must be seen through the medium of the artist's intellectual emotions.

Algebra is the intellectual instrument which has been created for rendering clear the quantitative aspects of the world.

I love different themes, different venues, different movies. I love to jump about and tackle different subjects. I have no intellectual master plan.

I'm amazed at the courage of the journalists on the frontlines in Iraq, but we need intellectual courage in our community.

I too had thoughts once of being an intellectual, but I found it too difficult.

An artist is a person who has invented an artist.

Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism.

The stupidity of a stupid man is mercifully intimate and reticient, while the stupidity of an intellectual is cried from the rooftops.

In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.

The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.

Educational romanticism asks too much from students at the bottom of the intellectual pile, asks the wrong things from those in the middle, and asks too little from those at the top.

Modern mathematics, that most astounding of intellectual creations, has projected the mind's eye through infinite time and the mind's hand into boundless space.

Science, not religion, has taught me my most useful values, among them intellectual honesty. It is better to go without answers than to accept those that merely resolve puzzlement.

If you try to give people knowledge, and you haven't trained them in character, based on faith, they will become intellectual reprobates.

One of the wonderful things about Internet is its like a salon. It brings people together from different intellectual walks of life.

A great deal of time and intellectual force are lost in the world, because the false seems great and the truth so small and insignificant.

All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called 'Facts'. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.

For me photography is not an intellectual process. It is a visual one.... Whether we like it or not, we are involved in a sensual business.

Ninety percent of the difficulty in your intellectual life would never have happened if you just had better taste.

Using governmental force to impose a vision on others is intellectual sloth.

Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.

Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise.

Tell me I'm beautiful, it's nothing. Tell me I'm intellectual - I know it. Tell me I'm funny and it's the greatest compliment in the world anyone could give me.

Research shows that couples who have a lot of similarities, including intellectual compatibility, end up staying together.

Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap.

Although I was not aware of it at the time, the experience of growing up during the Great Depression was to have a profound impact on my intellectual and professional career.

They sent me away to teach me how to be sensible, Logical, oh responsible, practical. And they showed me a world where I could be so dependable, Oh clinical, oh intellectual, cynical...