Intellectual Quotes · Page 24

I can't think why fancy religions should have such a ghastly effect on one's grammar. It's a kind of intellectual rot that…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“Perhaps the more that a person is an intellectual the more they are prone to misconceptions.”

— Taiichi Ohno

My parents were reasoned and deep thinkers. My dad is an intellectual and a literary man.

— Steve Zahn

“Down South we've always believed that if a man had intellectual abilities, they would show through on their own without his having…

— Herman E. Talmadge

“An intellectual is some one who isn't exactly distinguished by his intellect. He claims that label to compensates for his inadequacies.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

The mediocrity of everything in the great world of today is simply appalling. We live in intellectual slums.

— George Santayana

We bring together the best ideas - turning the meetings of our top managers into intellectual orgies.

— Jack Welch

Boat building is intellectual - everything has a reason. In sculpture, it has a direction.

— Charles Ray

The show is not a history lesson or intellectual exploration. It is entertainment based on tension, irony and storytelling that is closely…

— Matthew Weiner

“The intellectual world of my time alienated me intellectually. It was a Babel of false principles and blind cravings, a zoological garden…

— Charles Johnson

“You're like candy. People lick your knowledge to become wise, lick your words from your powerful mouth and say it even better…

— Anonymous

The major cause for American Negroes intellectual and social deficits is hereditary and racially genetic in origin and thus not remedial to…

— William Shockley

I believe in kindness and niceness and lots of spiritual things, but the real intellectual rigor and quest of logic is something…

— Stephen Fry

Intellectual property is an important legal and cultural issue. Society as a whole has complex issues to face here: private ownership vs.…

— Tim Berners-Lee

There is evidence for the deity of Jesus -- good, strong, historical , cumulative evidence; evidence to which an honest person can…

— John Stott

“The 1st rule of logic club is that the 2nd rule is false. The 2nd rule of logic club is that the…

— Makuochukwu Okigbo

If publishers and editors exert themselves to keep certain topics out of print, it is not because they are frightened of prosecution…

— George Orwell

Intellectual respectability required mental health, and it was becoming evident to me by then that "mental health" consisted of trusting everyone about…

— Kerry Thornley

One of the effects of modern liberal Protestantism has been gradually to turn religion into poetry and therapy, to make truth vaguer…

— Flannery O'Connor

I rejoice in a belief that intellectual light will spring up in the dark corners of the earth; that freedom of enquiry…

— George Washington

“Intellectual representations are the activity itself, dependent on a kind of consciousness that is skeptical, engaged, unremittingly devote to rational investigation and…

— Edward W. Said

There is a close connection between socio-political development, the struggle between social classes and the history of ideologies. In general, intellectual movements…

— Kwame Nkrumah

My colleagues from the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education are working on participatory public health initiatives in Michigan, and there…

— Ruth Simmons

We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields. But which are the best ones to…

— Alan Turing

Content zips around the Internet thanks to code - programming code. And code is subject to intellectual property laws.

— Jonathan Zittrain

A great deal of time and intellectual force are lost in the world, because the false seems great and the truth so…

— Maria Montessori

The power of real debate is in the language and intellectual honesty of the debaters, alongside the engagement of spectators.

— Ruzwana Bashir

The intellectual and social climate needed to allow entrepreneurship to thrive will not exist in advanced capitalism.

— Joseph A. Schumpeter

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.

— John Maynard Keynes

The mind serves best when it's anchored in the Word of God. There is no danger then of becoming an intellectual without…

— Flannery O'Connor

Nam June Paik's artworks are highly intellectual, cutting-edge, and sophisticated. But he was also witty, humorous, and self-deprecating.

— Ken Hakuta

All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts.

— Aldo Leopold

There's nothing on it worthwhile, and we're not going to watch it in this household, and I don't want it in your…

— Philo Farnsworth

History is an indispensable even though not the highest form of intellectual endeavor.

— Carl L. Becker

A true intellectual is a man who, after reading a book and being convinced by its arguments, will shoot someone or, more…

— John McCarthy

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

— John Fante

It does not just happen. It is disclosed by science that practically one-half of trained intellectual resources are being mobilized for murderous…

— Alva Myrdal

Intellectuals who live in Hungary, or who wish to work or lecture there, are extremely circumspect in their criticism.

— Hari Kunzru

Ever since Kant divorced reason from reality, his intellectual descendants have been diligently widening the breach.

— Ayn Rand

[On being asked how many Mrs. Thatchers there were:] Oh, three at least. There is the intellectual one, the intuitive one and…

— Margaret Thatcher