Intellectual Quotes

Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.

In Shankaracharya we saw tremendous intellectual power, throwing the scorching light of reason upon everything.

The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected.

I don't pretend to be an intellectual or a philosopher. I just look.

Yoga is more than physical. It is cellular, mental, intellectual and spiritual-it involves man in his entire being

All honor to the noble women that have devoted earnest lives to the intellectual needs of mankind!

Literary criticism is generally bunk. Nonsense. Usually based on self-serving post-intellectual bullshit.

The fashionable idiocy that haters must have justifications is one of those ideas that George Orwell said only an intellectual could believe -- because no one else could be such a fool.

My dear Miss Glory, Robots are not people. They are mechanically more perfect than we are, they have an astounding intellectual capacity, but they have no soul.

Boston was a moral and intellectual nursery, always busy applying first principles to trifles.

What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness.

I try to keep a balance between conceptional or intellectual comprehension and emotional understanding.

The American people are a very generous people and will forgive almost any weakness, with the possible, exception of stupidity.

Cynicism is intellectual treason.

He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind.

What are the "maximum" limits of acceptance of the term "intellectual"?

Protocol may be defined as the code of etiquette which protects royalty from the competition of intellectual and social superiors.

An intellectual carrot - the mind boggles.

Any serious man or woman in search of spiritual ideas will find a surprising challenge and an authentic source of inspiration and intellectual nourishment in the writings of Paul Brunton.

Intellectual curiosity drove Einstein to some of the world's most important discoveries.

The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.

Envy, in fact, is one form of a vice, partly moral, partly intellectual, which consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations.

[Rock and the intellectual Left] must both be interpreted as parts of the cultural fabric of late capitalism. Their success comes from the bourgeois' need to feel that he is not bourgeois.

I have no nationality - the best possible status for an intellectual.

The arts, like language, emerged spontaneously and universally in similar forms across cultures, employing imaginative and intellectual capacities that had clear survival value.

The elimination of the will altogether and the switching off of the emotions all and sundry, is tantamount to the elimination of reason: intellectual castration.

I think music is the most phenomenal platform for intellectual thought.

It's not just the emotional, intellectual, and physical gaps between you and money. The real gap is always between what you think you want and what you actually want, deep down.

For each of us there is a set limit to our intellectual powers which we cannot pass.

Just for being a religion at all you're as complicit as the rest in the retardation of the human intellectual progress.

Her countenance was all expression; her eyes were not dark but impenetrably deep; you seemed to discover space after space in their intellectual glance.

The more intellectual you are, the more egoistic you are, and surrendering becomes more difficult.

Calculus is the outcome of a dramatic intellectual struggle which has lasted for twenty-five hundred years.

Most areas of intellectual life have discovered the virtues of speculation, and have embraced them wildly. In academia, speculation is usually dignified as theory.

If Socialism can only be realized when the intellectual development of all the people permits it, then we shall not see Socialism for at least five hundred years.

They're now turning those seeds into intellectual property, so they have a virtual lock on the seeds upon which we all depend for our food and survival.

Yes, books are dangerous. They should be dangerous - they contain ideas.

Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance.

Dartmouth is the place I've devoted my life to, so it's very sad to see this kind of decline in the intellectual strength of the institution.

A free mind and a free market are corollaries.

Be different-if you don't have the facts and knowledge required, simply listen. When word gets around that you can listen when others tend to talk, you will be treated as a sage.

The best aid to give is intellectual aid, a gift of useful knowledge. A gift of knowledge is infinitely preferable to a gift of material things.

ALL ART, OF COURSE, IS INTELLECTUAL, BUT FOR ME, ALL THE ARTS, AND CINEMA EVEN MORE SO, MUST ABOVE ALL BE EMOTIONAL AND ACT UPON THE HEART.

There is evidence for the deity of Jesus -- good, strong, historical , cumulative evidence; evidence to which an honest person can subscribe without committing intellectual suicide.

It is always the task of the intellectual to "think otherwise." This is not just a perverse idiosyncrasy. It is an absolutely essential feature of a society.

As for the excellent little wretches who grow up in what they are taught, with never a scruple or a query, ... they signify nothing in the intellectual life of the race.

The admission fee was a viper's tongue and a half-concealed stiletto. It was a sort of intellectual slaughterhouse.

A culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men.

All intellectual improvement arises from leisure.

Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap