Intellectual Quotes

I won't do this movie because I don't believe the love story," she told Selznick. "The heroine is an intellectual woman, and an intellectual woman simply can't fall in love so deeply.

It's not going to happen through technology or our intellectual abilities but only through prayer. When we pray, God works. We believe God blesses churches that bless missions.

Painting fulfills a need to be non-intellectual. There are times when we have to get our brains out in our fingers.

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

Intellectual capital is the most valuable of all factors of production.

If there is one subject in this world worthy of being discussed, worthy of being understood, it is the question of intellectual liberty. Without that, we are simply painted clay.

All intellectual improvement arises from leisure.

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

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.

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.

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.

A free mind and a free market are corollaries.

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.

At a certain age some people's minds close up; they live on their intellectual fat.

Nasr combines in his writing audacious intellectual criticism, deep understanding of Islam... and a commitment to the Western-European contributions to the emancipation of the human condition.

Pat answers to complex problems are the hallmark of intellectual mediocrity

At its heart, all intellectual and emotional life is a conversation, and the conversation begins at birth.

To ask for a purely intellectual proof of the existence of God is like asking for the privilege of being able to see with your ears!

Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat.

The apostles were moved, not so much by an intellectual apprehension, as by a spiritual illumination. They met men, and the need of those men whom they met cried aloud to them.

Intellectual understanding blocks empathy.

Intellectual food is like any other; it is pleasanter and more beneficial to take it with a spoon than a shovel.

When the intellect and affections are in harmony; when intellectual consciousness is calm and deep; inspiration will not be confounded with fancy.

The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective.

In living in the world by his own will and skill, the stupidest peasant or tribesman is more competent than the most intelligent worker or technician or intellectual in a society of specialists.

This revolution, the information revolution, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy.

Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known.

Economic prosperity is not so much a material problem; it is, first of all, an intellectual, spiritual, and moral problem.

I have always believed the thesis that one's politics and the character of one's intellectual work are inseparable.

The knowledge of this marvelous period has made faith far easier from an intellectual standpoint, and has enabled us to be more patient in waiting to see the truth, not as now

Intellectual modesty is humility as to what I know; intellectual humility is modesty as to what I do not know

. . . no Black woman can become an intellectual without decolonizing her mind.

I look upon those who would deny others the right to urge and argue their position, however irksome and pernicious they may seem, as intellectual and moral cowards.

Personally, I regard myself as an intellectual 'rebel,' kicking against the 'old colonialism-imperialism paradigm' which has landed Africa in a conundrum.

Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, every single leading Muslim intellectual was in love with the west, and wanted their countries to look just like Britain and France.

The heart is as important as the head in learning

It strikes everyone in beginning to form an acquaintance with the treasures of Indian literature that a land so rich in intellectual products and those of the profoundest order of thought.

It is the opposite of ignorance—it is intellectual honesty: to be willing to accept reality and to call things what they are even when it is hard.

In fact, there is clear evidence of black intellectual superiority: in 1984, 92 percent of blacks voted to retire Ronald Reagan, compared to only 36 percent of whites.

The intellectual activity of those without power is always characterized as non-intellectual.

An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.

I'm fond of observing how obsession is the most durable form of intellectual capital.

I thought I was going to be a filmmaker but at the same time I was an intellectual and I felt that I could make a contribution to some field, as yet, not invented.

Banning books gives us silence when we need speech. It closes our ears when we need to listen. It makes us blind when we need sight.

[T]he more one is conscious of one's political bias, the more chance one has of acting politically without sacrificing one's aesthetic and intellectual integrity.

Greed probably figures in my intellectual life as well, as I attempt to absorb a massive amount of information with consequent mental indigestion.

The best causes tend to attract to their support the worst arguments, which seems to be equally true in the intellectual and in the moral sense.

My intellectual development was retarded, as a result of which I began to wonder about space and time only when I had already grown up.

Millions of people toil in the shadow of the law we make, and much of their livelihood is made possible by the existence of intellectual property rights.