Intellectual Quotes · Page 28

“Trees are still more soothing than steel and cement, despite the lack of a purely intellectual argument as to why this should…

— Douglas E. Richards

The only way to fix Puerto Rico is with brain game, to bring the intellectual and human capital there - in a…

— Brock Pierce

The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.

— Bertrand Russell

Ninety percent of the difficulty in your intellectual life would never have happened if you just had better taste.

— Terence McKenna

Style supposes the reunion and the exercise of all the intellectual faculties. The style is the man.

— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

Where you don't have people who have strong intellectual capacity, you get demagoguery.

— Hamza Yusuf

Women need a space that quenches their intellectual hunger, engages and empowers them with relatable content.

— Anand Mahindra

In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits.

— Robert Hall

Academic disciplines are subject to being overtaken by attacks of "knowingness"- a state of mind and soul that prevents shudders of awe…

— Richard Rorty

Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admirable when it sparkles in the setting of a modest…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Yes, I am calling for an intellectual revolution that sweeps away the corruption, absurdity and error, which prevail in morals, customs, traditions,…

— Ameen Rihani

But just as astronomy succeeded astrology, following Kepler's discovery of planetary regularities, the discoveries of these many principles in empirical explorations of…

— Marvin Minsky

“Intellectuals are the kind of people who demand evidence and are shocked by logical inconsistencies and fallacies. They regard oversimplification as the…

— Aldous Huxley

It was the transmutation of the classical liberal intellectual foundation by Christianity that gave modern Europe its impetus and that pushed European…

— Charles A. Murray

Ward Churchill might be more valuable to the opponents of the academic left employed than unemployed. Above all, he can serve as…

— Mort Kondracke

Every artist feels alone and isolated, Friends are very important in terms of all sorts of definitions of oneself. They tell you…

— Jasper Johns

Undoubtedly, there are kids with intellectual deficiencies or neurological problems. But a lot of kids shunted into special education classes are deficient…

— Seymour Papert

We shortchange ourselves by regarding religious faith as a matter of intellectual assent. This is a modern aberration; the traditional Christian view…

— Kathleen Norris

Institutional psychiatry is a continuation of the Inquisition. All that has really changed is the vocabulary and the social style. The vocabulary…

— Thomas Szasz

Pragmatism , in trying to turn experimental physics into a prototype of all science and to model all spheres of intellectual life…

— Max Horkheimer

Our conviction that the world is meaningless is due in part to the fact (discussed in a later paragraph) that the philosophy…

— Aldous Huxley

In the political jargon of those days, the word "intellectual" was an insult. It indicated someone who did not understand life and…

— Milan Kundera

I mean by intellectual integrity the habit of deciding vexed questions in accordance with the evidence, or of leaving them undecided where…

— Bertrand Russell

The social model of the Bolsheviks failed, as will any model that denies individual rights, intellectual freedom, and freedom of competing political…

— Mikhail Gorbachev

The American nation, in its march onward and upward, can not publicly choke the intellectual and political activity of half its citizens…

— Victoria Woodhull

That's a genre that we haven't seen much of for a while. Those action-adventure-comedy, but yet intellectual films.

— Ashley Zukerman

[Antonio] Gramsci's words and actions explain their assessment, though I think we should refrain from using the term "model intellectual" for him…

— Noam Chomsky

He is a fool who thinks by force or skill To turn the current of a woman's will.

— Samuel Tuke

I'm strictly for Stevenson. I don't dig the intellectual bit, but I'm telling you, man, he knows the most.

— Elvis Presley

Srebrenica's not simply another reminder of man's inhumanity to man, but how intelligent people can always come up with intelligent reasons to…

— Scott Simon

To answer brutality with brutality is to admit one's moral and intellectual bankruptcy.

— Mahatma Gandhi

It is in the intellectual and emotional response, the conscious and subconscious associations of the artist, that the potential power of painting…

— Thomas S. Buechner

I've always been interested in intellectual history and in psychology, and anxiety is obviously something that's been a big part of my…

— Scott Stossel

What I love about French gardens is the combination of formal elegance and intellectual questioning.

— Monty Don

In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.

— John Stuart Mill

Amherst was pivotal in my broad intellectual development; MIT in my development as a professional economist.

— Joseph Stiglitz

Gingrich is the "foremost intellectual" in the Republican party like Gene Simmons is the foremost intellectual in "Kiss".

— Bill Maher

Kitsch offers instantaneous emotional gratification without intellectual effort, without the requirement of distance, wihtout sublimation.

— Walter Benjamin

Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic…

— Robert Bork

I approached the bulk of my schoolwork as a chore rather than an intellectual adventure.

— Steven Chu