Intellectual Quotes
Peace is not a product of an intellectual exercise. It is an inner blossoming that occurs with meditation.
Literary commercialism is lowering the intellectual standard to accommodate the purse and to meet a frivolous demand for amusement instead of for improvement.
The 'We Have Overcome' generation has run out of intellectual creativity but refuses to leave the political stage.
When you're on screen with Mads, there's some real fireworks because your character is his intellectual equal. In a way, maybe your character has an instinct as to who this man really is.
Ambition is the subtlest beast of the intellectual and moral field. It is wonderfully adroit in concealing itself from its owner.
The game of chess is the most fascinating and intellectual pastime which the wisdom of antiquity has bequeathed to us.
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.
I think there's a natural system in your own head about how much violence the scene warrants. It's not an intellectual process, it's an instinctive process.
The scale, properly speaking, does not permit the measure of the intelligence, because intellectual qualities are not superposable, and therefore cannot be measured as linear surfaces are measured.
The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.
What opinions the masses hold, or do not hold, is looked upon as a matter of indifference. They can be granted intellectual liberty becasue they have no intellect.
RELIGION: A set of beliefs held as dogmas, dominating the conduct of life, going beyond or contrary to evidence, and inculcated by methods which are emotional or authoritarian, not intellectual.
Only a few individuals succeed in throwing off mythology in a time of a certain intellectual supremacy--the mass never frees itself.
Spiritual nature is inconceivable and unlimited. Therefore, the activities of that realm will always remain beyond our mental speculation and intellectual concept.
To force oneself to believe and to accept a thing without understanding is political, and not spiritual or intellectual.
To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
For intellectual authority, the appropriate version of Descartes 's cogito would be today: I am talked about, therefore I am.
...for Paul faith is always faith in a person. Faith is not the intellectual acceptance of a body of doctrine; faith is faith in a person.
All great work artistic, poetic, intellectual or spiritual is produced at those moments when creators forget themselves altogether and are free from self-consciousness.
The American nation, in its march onward and upward, can not publicly choke the intellectual and political activity of half its citizens by narrow statutes.
If the person you are trying to diagnose politically is some sort of intellectual, the chances are two to one he is a Democrat.
Not by force of arms are civilizations held together, but by subtle threads of moral and intellectual principle.
Academic disciplines are subject to being overtaken by attacks of "knowingness"- a state of mind and soul that prevents shudders of awe and makes one immune to enthusiasm.
The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.
Piensa el sentimiento, siente el pensamiento." (roughly translated, "Think about the emotional and feel the intellectual")
If an actor tries to understand too much, he will act in an intellectual and unnatural manner.
Where are the flamboyant characters?! This is what America desperately needs right now! Flamboyant intellectual characters who can cut different ways. And, that's just what I'm missing.
By activating an expansive, tolerant, and creative mindset, positive feelings maximize the social, intellectual, and physical benefits that will accrue.
The worst thing that can happen to an artist is to be subsidized by the state. It leads to an intellectual and artistic castration.
As a child I wanted to be a grown-up. I wanted to know everything - not that I like to talk about it. I hate intellectual conversation with intellectuals because I only care about my opinion.
The common stock of intellectual enjoyment should not be difficult of access because of the economic position of him who would approach it.
One of the enduring lessons of history is that whenever an empire becomes insular to 'protect' itself, intellectual decline and cultural intolerance are sure to follow.
Poetry exists partly to undermine the certainties of an accepted intellectual system, by opening a fissure of awareness at which the reality of the unconquered world may enter.
Mountains and deserts, with their sparse life at the limit of existence, make one restless and disconsolate; one becomes an explorer in an intellectual realm as well as in a physical one.
There are many non-intellectual countries; Australia is one of the few anti-intellectual ones.
From passions grow opinions; intellectual laziness lets these harden into convictions.
The information revolution has changed wealth. Intellectual capital is far more important than money.
Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.