Intellectual Quotes

I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being.

Whoever prefers the material comforts of life over intellectual wealth is like the owner of a palace who moves into the servants’ quarters and leaves the sumptuous rooms empty.

In the immediate as well as the symbolic sense, in the physical as well as the intellectual sense, we are at any moment those who separate the connected, or connect the separate.

Ideas without precedent are generally looked upon with disfavor and men are shocked if their conceptions of an orderly world challenged.

The stock market can be down, but the stock market is not an indication of where people's spirits and enthusiam are, and where their intellectual energy is.

Don't believe those lies about intellectual people. They're only written to soothe the majority.

The intellectual was rejected and persecuted at the precise moment when the facts became incontrovertible, when it was forbidden to say that the emperor had no clothes.

The intellectual evolution of the race consists in an increase in the number, delicacy, complexity, permanence and speed of formation of such associations.

People have been starving for intellectual fodder, but the best way to get people to close their eyes and not say anything is to tell them that they're not smart enough to comprehend.

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.

This ceremony and the intellectual aura associated with the Nobel Prizes have grown from the wisdom of a practical chemist who wrote a remarkable will.

Rescue the drowning and tie your shoestrings.

Knowledge is only useful if you do something with it.

To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education.

Marks of Identity is, among other things, the expression of the process of alienation in a contemporary intellectual with respect to his own country.

The truth is that most people lack the intellectual ability and courage to resist a popular movement, however pernicious and ill-considered.

I learnt from Hussein how to achieve victory while being oppressed.

The major cause for American Negroes intellectual and social deficits is hereditary and racially genetic in origin and thus not remedial to a major degree by improvement in environment.

A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way, but intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.

It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.

Self-reliance leads to intellectual independence. Each man must think for himself, must train the mind to think, must habituate the soul to observe and analyze.

Excellence is the eternal quest. We achieve it by living up to our highest intellectual standards and our finest moral intuitions. In seeking excellence, take life seriously-but never yourself!

It is only men who are free, who create the inventions and intellectual works which to us moderns make life worth while.

An intellectual may be defined as a man who speaks with general authority about a subject on which he has no particular competence.

No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.

I do have a peripatetic and active intellectual curiosity.

Ideology is: intellectual ordering of the feelings; an objective connection among them that makes the subjective connection easier.

So basically, I think music at its best can be everything. It can be totally stupid and very intellectual and emotional at the same time. I don't think all those things shut each other out.

The core of science is not a mathematical modeling--it is intellectual honesty. It is a willingness to have our certainties about the world constrained by good evidence and good argument.

Strenuous intellectual work and the study of God's Nature are the angels that will lead me through all the troubles of this life with consolation, strength, and uncompromising rigor.

I was addicted to hacking, more for the intellectual challenge, the curiosity, the seduction of adventure; not for stealing, or causing damage or writing computer viruses.

The intellect is a cold thing and a merely intellectual idea will never stimulate thought in the same manner that a spiritual idea does.

I approached the bulk of my schoolwork as a chore rather than an intellectual adventure.

The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.

I believe that sensory pleasure should take precedence over intellectual pleasure in art and architecture.

One can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.

Intellectual activity is perhaps the greatest pleasure of life; chess is one of the forms of intellectual activity.

Psychic development is a necessary skill in leading a successful and happy life. Your intellectual processes and your senses don't give you enough information to distinguish the real from the unreal.

For me, the ultimate form of expression is blues, where jazz appeals to me on an intellectual level.

Microsoft is a big intellectual roach motel. All the big minds go in, and they don't come out.

Spiritual nature is inconceivable and unlimited. Therefore, the activities of that realm will always remain beyond our mental speculation and intellectual concept.

But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins.

A great thing would be done if all these God-visions could embrace and cast themselves into each other; but intellectual dogma and cult egoism stand in the way.

Ambition is the subtlest beast of the intellectual and moral field. It is wonderfully adroit in concealing itself from its owner.

Only a few individuals succeed in throwing off mythology in a time of a certain intellectual supremacy--the mass never frees itself.

I need three million dollars to make a low-budget, intellectual, artistic, exciting, erotic movie with a great soundtrack.

Haitians weren't screwed-up, but everything political, intellectual, and material around them is.

If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay - in solid cash - the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.

What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!