Intellectual Quotes · Page 21

“Intellectual talent will give us the upper-hand in the game of life. Fortunately, we all can develop it”

— Julian Pencilliah

The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - taking an intellectual form.

— Chauncey Wright

Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principals to trifles.

— George Santayana

To fear the examination of any proposition apears to me an intellectual and a moral palsy that will ever hinder the firm…

— George Eliot

My parents were gigantic influences on me. I had a deep hunger to impress my father, who was a professor and an…

— Siri Hustvedt

I hate intellectual discussion. When I hear the words 'phenomenology' or 'structuralism', I reach for my buck knife.

— Edward Abbey

“The moment a realm of intellectual activity is codifiable, it ceases to be uniquely human.”

— Anonymous

In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side-by-side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand.

— Gerald Holton

In fact it is essential that we strengthen efforts to learn from each other, and stop considering public health in the third…

— Ruth Simmons

But it is one of these sort of mythologies about America and its intellectual history, that the right embraced this thing called…

— Jonah Goldberg

I don't care how intelligent or attractive someone is, if he zaps your energy, he isn't for you. True chemistry is more…

— Judith Orloff

What good is a theory of how the universe works if it’s a series of tensor equations that, even when understood, come…

— Terence McKenna

It was at the graduate school at Columbia University that I first met Wesley C. Mitchell, with whom I was associated for…

— Simon Kuznets

So I'm writing more highly personalized and intellectual music, and I think that's good. It might take longer to find me, but…

— Paula Cole

Collaboration operates through a process in which the successful intellectual achievements of one person arouse the intellectual passions and enthusiasms of others.

— Alexander von Humboldt

Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety,…

— Sri Aurobindo

A form of intellectual productiveness, therein lies its peculiar charm. Intellectual productiveness is one of the greatest joys - if not the…

— Siegbert Tarrasch

I do not share the pessimism of the age about the novel. They are one of our greatest spiritual, aesthetic and intellectual…

— Richard Flanagan

I am a conservative. I have said I don't know how many times, conservatism is an intellectual pursuit. And by that I…

— Rush Limbaugh

Play, Incorporating Animistic and Magical Thinking Is Important Because It: Fosters the healthy, creative and emotional growth of a child; Forms the…

— Rachel Carson

The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. So long as men are…

— Bertrand Russell

Intellectual-property rules are clearly necessary to spur innovation: if every invention could be stolen, or every new drug immediately copied, few people…

— James Surowiecki

What distinguishes [Afropolitans] is a willingness to complicate Africa – namely, to engage with, critique, and celebrate the parts of Africa that…

— Taiye Selasi

I teach a graduate seminar called "Theorizing Improvisation" that is pretty interdisciplinary, but really makes students deal with black studies seriously. A…

— Vijay Iyer

Freud "interpreted" dreams by treating them as intellectual riddles whose details, once processed through free association, exposed hidden wishes.

— Rodger Kamenetz

Society is not merely a select body of spiritual or intellectual persons, but a great organism composed of all kinds of members,…

— Robert Hugh Benson

I wish I knew as much about anything today as I knew about everything when I was twenty.

— Bill Ayers

“Intellectual death is endemic in areas where people are not prepared to gain new information for development. Learning is the intervention!”

— Israelmore Ayivor

The best students are ones that are willing to take intellectual risks and challenge conventional thinking.

— Oren Etzioni

It befuddles me why I was offered so many intense, intellectual movies when I don't take myself seriously.

— Konkona Sen Sharma

If an actor tries to understand too much, he will act in an intellectual and unnatural manner.

— Michelangelo Antonioni

Intellectual freedom is the only guarantee of a scientific - democratic approach to politics, economic development, and culture.

— Andrei Sakharov

I know some real intellectual people who might laugh, very close friends who might laugh when I'm said to be an intellectual.

— Isabelle Huppert

We as a music ­community have our own issues about advocacy, copyright, intellectual ­property, being paid fairly for the work that we…

— Neil Portnow

The help which tends to make us spiritually strong is the highest help, next to it comes intellectual help and after that…

— Swami Vivekananda

I don't think I could live with someone that I didn't have an intellectual friendship with.

— Jonathan Franzen

To me, at its best, that's what art should do, perform both the emotional and intellectual function.

— Dave Holland

I kind of follow in the tradition of some folks - some thinkers and scholars I really look up - who reject…

— Clint Smith

I read a lot of G.K. Chesterton. It was a fairly conventional intellectual path to the Catholic church, I would say.

— Ross Douthat

Liberal Christians are distinguished by how much moral and intellectual ground they can concede to the adversaries of Christianity.

— Dinesh D'Souza