Intellectual Quotes · Page 25

The Swedish engineer who invented the zip fastener made a greater intellectual leap than many scientists do in a lifetime.

— Martin Rees

Life is essentially a series of events to be lived through rather than intellectual riddles to be played with and solved.

— George Arthur Buttrick

All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called 'Facts'. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.

— Thomas Hobbes

My dad was more, "Let's play chess. Read a book, you're stupid." He's more the intellectual type.

— Michelle Rodriguez

An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.

— Aldous Huxley

Intellectuals are good at seeing the big picture. But they are not so good at process.

— Michael Ignatieff

[E]mpathy - not squishy self-serving conflict avoidance - is the hand-maiden, not the enemy, of reason and intellectual inquiry.

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Compassion is not feeling sorry for others. It's not soft. It requires an intellectual effort.

— Karen Armstrong

“In Delhi, politicians and intellectuals privately bemoaned the “irrationality” of the uneducated Indian masses, but when the government itself provided false answers…

— Katherine Boo

I do my intellectual work inside myself, and once I am with my fellow creatures it is more or less a matter…

— Marcel Proust

The earth flourishes, or is overrun with noxious weeds and brambles, as we apply or withhold the cultivating hand. So fares it…

— Horace Mann

Those who had talked to us about national pride and Christian brotherly love were the first to come to terms or actively…

— Mikis Theodorakis

“[The public school system is] usually a twelve year sentence of mind control. Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism and compromise, destroying…

— Walter Karp

I would defend the liberty of consenting adult creationists to practice whatever intellectual perversions they like in the privacy of their own…

— Arthur C. Clarke

“Life is a game of common sense. You can know all the data that the encyclopedia holds, but if you can't apply…

— Zack W. Van

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can…

— Mark Twain

An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy…

— Albert Camus

One has to be cautious and respectful of the power of the "substance" guides. I don't advocate imbibing the "little saint children,"…

— Anne Waldman

There's a guy named Richard Spencer, who is the intellectual guru of the movement, according to Breitbart and he says, basically -…

— David Corn

It seems to us that in intelligence there is a fundamental faculty, the alteration or the lack of which, is of the…

— Alfred Binet

Before the Conquest all art was of the people, and popular art has never ceased to exist in Mexico. The art called…

— Manuel Alvarez Bravo

I think intellectual property is more like land, and copyright violation is more like trespass. Even though you don't take anything away…

— Brad Templeton

“I am not like any of them. I am disillusioned with spirituality. I am far too well-read to devote myself to a…

— Abhaidev

The public school system: "Usually a twelve year sentence of mind control. Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism and compromise, destroying the…

— Thomas Jefferson

Reading is not simply an intellectual pursuit but an emotional and spiritual one. It lights the candle in the hurricane lamp of…

— Anna Quindlen

In a seriously intended intellectual emancipation a person's mute passions and cravings also hope to find their advantage.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Women, on average, are less knowledgeable than men. They're less intellectual than men.

— Amy Wax

Our loss put six feet under ground Is measured by the magnolia's root; Our gain's the intellectual sound Of death's feet round…

— Allen Tate

“There is no such thing as unnecessary beauty, whether it be physical or intellectual.”

— Stuart Rojstaczer

Anyone who doesn't think that hip-hop is an intellectual genre, I think that assumption is rooted in racism.

— Doechii

I knew there were no such things as death cooties. Unfortunately, that's an intellectual fact. And death cooties are an emotional reality.

— Janet Evanovich

“His mother had often told Lock that he was much too polite to ever be a true intellectual.”

— Shelly Laurenston

Mere mental, that is, intellectual labour, is for the soul and has its own satisfaction.

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Anonymous

To be a really good historian is perhaps the rarest of intellectual distinctions.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

Christianity is not a purely intellectual, internal faith. It can only be lived in community.

— Philip Yancey

I'm not intellectual at all as a designer. Whatever I'm into at the moment is usually what becomes the collection.

— Peter Dundas

I wish to note that intellectual property theft by a government represents the very essence of organized crime.

— Howard Berman

I came from a very intellectual neighborhood. When we played cowboys and Indians as kids, I had to be Gandhi.

— Robert Frost

“I am not looking for a "perfect" man. Only one who matches me on an emotional, spiritual, sexual, and intellectual level.”

— Amanda Mosher