Intellectual Quotes · Page 34

You know, albums are a funny thing. They're not like an intellectual decision. It's a collection of your kind of musings.

— Glen Hansard

The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time.

— Stephen King

Music contains a whole gamut of experience, from sensuous elements to ultimate intellectual harmonies.

— George Santayana

All propaganda must be popular and its intellectual level must be adjusted to the most limited intelligence among those it is addressed…

— Adolf Hitler

I was a sort of New York intellectual when I was 16. I wanted to dress like Annie Hall when I was 18.

— Rebecca Hall

One thing I don't want around me is a military intellectual. I don't have to worry about you on that score.

— Henry A. Kissinger

Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of historians; much more than that it does…

— Anonymous

Mystery is an intellectual process... But suspense is essentially an emotional process.

— Alfred Hitchcock

When you see a culture where the intellectual architects of the invasion are not shamed for their behavior but rewarded within the…

— John Cusack

The good thing about Pro Tools is you can actually hear what you're working on, so it doesn't just become this intellectual…

— Bjork

We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are…

— Calvin Coolidge

There is a vast difference - a constitutional difference-between restrictions imposed by the state which prohibit the intellectual commingling of students, and…

— Anonymous

Where intellectuals have played a role in history, it has not been so much by whispering words of advice into the ears…

— Thomas Sowell

Since we think about ourselves so much of the time, it is comforting to assume ... that we really know the score……

— Gordon Allport

Without claiming superiority of intellectual over visual understanding, one is nevertheless bound to admit that the cinema allowsa number of æsthetic-intellectual means…

— Johan Huizinga

Material advancement has its share in moral and intellectual progress. Becky Sharp's acute remark that it is not difficult to be virtuous…

— Thomas Huxley

It indicates a person who has not only good manners but who possesses a sense of balance, a sure mastery of himself,…

— Antonio Gramsci

God sees the minds (ruling principles) of all men bared of the material vesture and rind and impurities. For with his intellectual…

— Marcus Aurelius

This - where we are now - is where a culture gets to, when it has chosen, for many years, banality over…

— George Saunders

We debase the richness of both nature and our own minds if we view the great pageant of our intellectual history as…

— Stephen Jay Gould

I do not believe that every person, in every walk of life, can succeed in spite of any handicap. That would be…

— Jackie Robinson

Many people suffer all their lives from this oppressive feeling of guilt, the sense of not having lived up to their parents'…

— Alice Miller

“The problem with smart people is that they like to be right and sometimes will defend ideas to the death rather than…

— Scott Berkun

Prophet just means intellectual. They were people giving geopolitical analysis, moral lessons, that sort of thing. We call them intellectuals today. There…

— Noam Chomsky

We must deal with Chinese theft of intellectual property, though no one is sure that tariffs are the solution.

— John Layfield

Intellectual controversies tend to be like dog fights without the teeth, in which the barking not the biting does the damage.

— Luis Fernando Verissimo

There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated.

— Dan Glickman

Intellectual disgrace Stares from every human face, And the seas of pity lie Locked and frozen in each eye.

— W. H. Auden

“...spirituality alone will not take a man far in the Mysteries; he must have intellectual powers as well.”

— Dion Fortune

There weren't any curtains in the windows, and the books that didn't fit into the bookshelf lay piled on the floor like…

— Haruki Murakami

The extreme geniality of San Francisco's economic, intellectual and political climate makes it the most varied and challenging city in the United…

— James A. Michener

“Deep” to me connotes intellectual rigor, not fashionable obscurity or the unnecessarily academic.”

— Alex Payne

There is no intellectual or emotional substitute for the authentic, the original, the unique masterpiece.

— Paul Mellon

A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with…

— Freeman Dyson

Americans are genuinely and profoundly anti-intellectual. They are especially so in their pleasure-seeking, which is epically banal.

— Jesse Ball

There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.

— Philip James Bailey

[On Cantor's work:] The finest product of mathematical genius and one of the supreme achievements of purely intellectual human activity.

— David Hilbert

Baseball is the most intellectual game because most of the action goes on in your head.

— Henry A. Kissinger

It is not true that a man's intellectual power is, like the strength of a timber beam, to be measured by its…

— George Eliot

“Quoting Shakespeare doesn't make you an intellectual. It just makes you a fan of Shakespeare.”

— Kevin N. Fair