Intellectual Quotes · Page 2

“He liked cock, this intellectual!”

— Laurent Binet

“On Exilic Intellectuals”

— Anonymous

I like intellectual journeys.

— Christopher Meloni

Faith is intellectual laziness.

— Robert A. Heinlein

I don't think I'm that intellectual.

— Isabelle Huppert

Cynicism is intellectual treason.

— Norman Cousins

Barack Obama is an intellectual.

— Jonathan Chait

When your IQ rises to 28, sell.

— Irwin Corey

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

“I use Facebook to broadcast my intellectual luggage". ~R. Alan Woods [2012]”

— R. Alan Woods

...writing fiction...is no job for intellectual cowards.

— Stephen King

Voting is as much an emotional act as it is an intellectual one.

— Monica Crowley

Look, I'm not an intellectual - I just take pictures.

— Helmut Newton

Some are born great, others achieve greatness.

— William Shakespeare

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

— Albert Schweitzer

Intellectual capital drives financial capital and growth.

— Andrew Yang

The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.

— Sallust

Ethics is not just an abstract intellectual discipline. It is about the conflicts that arise in trying to meet real human needs…

— John Ziman

The moral and intellectual character of the Africans is widely different in different nations.

— Samuel George Morton

Persecution in intellectual countries produces a superficial conformity, but also underneath an intense, incessant, implacable doubt.

— Walter Bagehot

I have some intellectual-type pursuits, like studying philosophy and stuff like that.

— Van Morrison

One can remain alive ... if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity interested in big things and happy in…

— Edith Wharton

Intellectual force is qualitatively the first and foremost productive force, and concern for its rapid growth should be the ardent concern of…

— Maxim Gorky

Our inner guidance comes to us through our feelings and body wisdom first -- not through intellectual understanding.

— Christiane Northrup

We are still barely conscious of how harmful it is to treat children in a degrading manner. Treating them with respect and…

— Alice Miller

I had to fight the intellectual label when I started in television, because, first of all, it's not going to help you…

— Dick Cavett

Public intellectuals come from a range of areas and use their expertise to comment more widely than just their field. They want…

— Susie Orbach

The best bit about having a collaborator is plot. Plot is quite hard to get right. It is a testing intellectual exercise…

— Jesse Armstrong

You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London,…

— Samuel Johnson

I dislike frontiers, political or intellectual, and I find that ignoring them is an essential catalyst for creative thought. Ideas should flow…

— Michael Atiyah

“Unlike the masses, intellectuals have a taste for rationality and interest in facts. Their critical habit of mind makes them resistant to…

— Aldous Huxley

Yes, horoscopes still persist in popular newspapers, but they are there only for the severely scientifically challenged, or for entertainment; the idea…

— Robert J. Shiller

Since the Greeks the predominant attitude of thinkers towards intellectual activity was to glorify it insofar as (like aesthetic activity) it finds…

— Julien Benda

“[On famous Nobel Laureate Niels Bohr] [Niels] Bohr's sort of humor, use of parables and stories, tolerance, dependence on family, feelings of…

— Finn Aaserud

The true Enlightenment thinker, the true rationalist, never wants to talk anyone into anything. No, he does not even want to convince;…

— Karl Popper

Nothing fans me into such a state of peaceful mental somnambulance as the intellectual antics of a person who displays his learning,…

— Corra May Harris

Keep children as much as possible by themselves ... keep them from company, good or bad. ... It will be generally found…

— Jacob Abbott

There's a depth to the nightmare, to the symbolism you can exploit, on an intellectual level, on a sexual level, on a…

— Robert Englund

When a spectator approaches a painting with his own particular set of filters or theories, be they historical, political, intellectual or whatever…

— Douglas Portway

If we look more closely, we see that any violent display of power, whether political or religious, produces an outburst of folly…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer