Intellectual Quotes · Page 30

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

— Robert Frost

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

— Thomas Hobbes

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

— Margaret Thatcher

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

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

— Ayn Rand

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

— Hari Kunzru

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

— Michael Ignatieff

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

Of all the intellectual hurdles which the human mind has confronted and has overcome in the last fifteen hundred years the one…

— Herbert Butterfield

Call it a case of observer bias on my part, but Humanist Paganism seems to be an emerging option for those who…

— Brendan Myers

Stronach's fragile beauty belies an emotional strength, pragmatic resiliency, and intellectual courage. Her ideas and choreography are both enigmatic and playful.

— Tami Stronach

Extremists often derive their inspiration from literal interpretations of texts that should rightly be read not as Associated Press reports from the…

— Jon Meacham

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

So much confusion about belief in God, morality, and science arises, not from what people say they believe, but rather from mistaken…

— Francis J. Beckwith

If then, as we say, good craftsmen look to the mean as they work, and if virtue, like nature, is more accurate…

— Aristotle

In the thirties a whole school of criticism bogged down intellectually in those agitprop, social-realistic days. A play had to be progressive.…

— Edward Albee

Intellectuals resist faith longer because they can: where ordinary people are helpless before the light, intellectuals are clever enough to spin webs…

— Peter Kreeft

Classical music is at odds with contemporary culture precisely because of its insistence on the tension between the bodily and intellectual, the…

— Julian Johnson

The provincial intellectual is doomed to arguing at low level... there is still no Australian literary world, not in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide.…

— Clive James

We canot become nonviolent on the basis of intellectual conviction. Commitment to nonviolence demands a very profound conversion of mind and heart.…

— Thomas Gumbleton

Intellectual traditions emerging from populations that have always been the constitutive other in the development of the properly free citizen - indigenous…

— Dean Spade

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

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Karen Armstrong

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

— Anna Quindlen

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

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

— Amy Wax

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

— Charles Ray

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

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

— Jack Welch

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

— Aldo Leopold

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

— Ken Hakuta

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

— Joseph A. Schumpeter