I may turn out an intellectual, but I'll never write anything but mediocre poetry. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
John Connally's conversion to the GOP raised the intellectual level of both parties. — Frank Mankiewicz Copy Share Image
God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn” — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
PASTIME, n. A device for promoting dejection. Gentle exercise for intellectual debility. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Within the confines of the lecture hall, no other virtue exists but plain intellectual integrity. — Max Weber Copy Share Image
An abyss seems to have opened between the intellectual cosmopolites of culture and the people, hungry for word and meaning. — Meridel Le Sueur Copy Share Image
In their capacity as a tool, computers will be but a ripple on the surface of our culture. In their capacity as… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
Intellectual and cultural freedom is the most important single precondition for the breakdown of the kinds of tyrannical and totalitarian systems that… — James H. Billington Copy Share Image
They offer me neither food nor drink - intellectual nor spiritual consolation... [Conservatism] leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal; it conforms to… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Mankind never loses any good thing, physical, intellectual, or moral, till it finds a better, and then the loss is a gain.… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
To believe is not intellectual assent: "Yes, I believe in Jesus. I will sign my name to the Nicene Creed. I believe… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Everybody has values. Now, you know it may be formed in a secular setting, it may be formed in an intellectual setting,… — Sam Brownback Copy Share Image
We need a President who is intellectual, who is a brilliant thinker, and not only that, someone who has a heart for… — Nicole Seah Copy Share Image
“There is nothing more alone in the universe than man. He is alone because he has the intellectual capacity to know that… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
Why is it Muslims from Pakistan or from Egypt come to America and thrive, and they are frustrated back home? It's about… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
I have read all of Daniel Aaron's books, and admired them, but in The Americanist I believe he has composed an intellectual… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Just being alive is such a gift, but nobody ever told you to be thankful to existence. On the contrary, everyone was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All I'm arguing for really is that we should have a conversation where the best ideas really thrive, where there's no taboo… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
I view the major features of my own odyssey as a set of mostly fortunate contingencies. I was not destined by inherited… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
In this country, unfortunately, as all over the world, we care so little, we have no deep feeling about anything. Most of… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
There was something terribly enthralling in the exercise of influence. No other activity was like it. To project one's soul into some… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If all our political and intellectual elite offers by way of a national culture is "pop music, gambling, fashionable clothes or television,"… — Anthony Daniels Copy Share Image
At the outstart of discussions of women's intellectual attainments, it is well to remember how few are the men of the first… — Anna Garlin Spencer Copy Share Image
And what, then, is belief? It is the demi-cadence which closes a musical phrase in the symphony of our intellectual life. — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
The rapists of the intellectual world become politicians; the seducers become artists. — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
For me photography is not an intellectual process. It is a visual one… Whether we like it or not, we are involved… — Marc Riboud Copy Share Image
The convictions that leaders have formed before reaching high office are the intellectual capital they will consume as long as they continue… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Can I reject everything my brain experienced? Is intellectual understanding any understanding at all? — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
It is the opposite of ignorance—it is intellectual honesty: to be willing to accept reality and to call things what they are… — Todd Burpo Copy Share Image
I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual. — Rahul Dravid Copy Share Image
Sell your intellectual property based on a track record of success and innovation. — Tahl Raz Copy Share Image
Lecturers should remember that the capacity of the mind to absorb is limited to what the seat can endure. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
“A man must be quite intelligent in order to accept that a woman is his intellectual equal.” — Dora Musielak Copy Share Image
No leader, however great a personality he may be, is as important to a people as their own intellectual development. — George William Russell Copy Share Image
“Communism...muat of necessity be a saddening process for anyone who has ever tasted the intellectual pleasures of the world we live in.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The painter is not an intellectual if, when he has painted a nude woman, he gives us the idea that she is… — Odilon Redon Copy Share Image
May not men earn their bread by intellectual labor? No, the needs of the body must be supplied by the body. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of… — Hu Shih Copy Share Image
![“They offer me neither food nor drink - intellectual nor spiritual consolation... [Conservatism] leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal; it conforms to no intellectual standard, it is not safe, or calculated to preserve from the spoilers that degree of civilization which we have already attained.” quote by John Maynard Keynes](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/458/john-maynard-keynes-1380_civilization_they-offer-me-neither-food-nor-drink-int_1846228.jpg)
![“To believe is not intellectual assent: "Yes, I believe in Jesus. I will sign my name to the Nicene Creed. I believe it all" - which you could do, [but] it would have no effect on who you were or what you did. It is, rather, to give your heart.” quote by Frederick Buechner](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/9d5/frederick-buechner-883_believe_to-believe-is-not-intellectual-assent-ye_635623.png)
