All honor to the noble women that have devoted earnest lives to the intellectual needs of mankind! — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
It is a part of the intellectual's tragedy that the things he most values about himself and his work are quite unlike… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
The intellectual, the moral, the religious seem to me all naturally bound up and interlinked together in one great and harmonious whole. — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
The art of life lies in taking pleasures as they pass, and the keenest pleasures are not intellectual, nor are they always… — Aristippus Copy Share Image
I find it extraordinary that anyone would have an intellectual conversion to Roman Catholicism. — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
To the man-in-the-street, who, I'm sorry to say, is a keen observer of life. The word Intellectual suggests straight away. A man… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
The worst thing that can happen to an artist is to be subsidized by the state. It leads to an intellectual and… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
Theorists tend to peak at an early age; the creative juices tend to gush very early and start drying up past the… — Leon M. Lederman Copy Share Image
A good day is one where I can not just read a book, but write a review of it. Maybe today I'll… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I look on trade and every mechanical craft as education also. But let me discriminate what is precious herein. There is in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In business, there's a constant focus on developing strategies, reviewing executive performance against those strategies each year, engaging with opposing or different… — Jeff Raikes Copy Share Image
The saddest thing in the world was that human beings, for all their ardent striving and desire, could never achieve physical, emotional,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
In today's impoverished dialogue, critiques of liberalism are often naively called "conservative," as if twenty-five hundred years of Western intellectual tradition presented… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
When [wines] were good they pleased my sense, cheered my spirits, improved my moral and intellectual powers, besides enabling me to confer… — George Saintsbury Copy Share Image
Reason flows from the blending of rational thought and feeling. If the two functions are torn apart, thinking deteriorates into schizoid intellectual… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Some of the guys I played with .. didn't go around learning more about their instruments from an intellectual point of view.… — Benny Goodman Copy Share Image
Some authors state that the last stage in this chain of measurements involves "consciousness," or the "intellectual inner life" of the observer,… — Asher Peres Copy Share Image
I don't think my writing has much to do with my age. For me, my biography is more about what I was… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
All of the action, and the Wild West West fun, crazy, HBO stuff is in there and it's all amazing, but what… — Evan Rachel Wood Copy Share Image
Fear, coercion, punishment, are the masculine remedies for moral weakness, but statistics show their failure for centuries. Why not change the system… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
... these great improvements of modern times are blessings or curses on us, just in the same ratio as the mental, moral,… — Harriot Kezia Hunt Copy Share Image
Stupid people like to delude themselves that while they may not be clever, they were at least able to compensate with feelings… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Disgust is expressed by violence, and it is to be noted of our intellectual temper that violence is a quality which is… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
To know whom to strike is competence; to know how to strike is skill; to know where and when to strike is… — James Roby Copy Share Image
Pick up a grain a day and add to your heap. You will soon learn, by happy experience, the power of littles… — John Seely Hart Copy Share Image
Never confuse faith, or belief—of any kind—with something even remotely intellectual. — John Irving Copy Share Image
I think if I hadn't become a sociologist, I would have become very anti-intellectual. — Pierre Bourdieu Copy Share Image
Professional intellectuals are the voice of a culture and are, therefore, its leaders, its integrators and its bodyguards. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Contraction of theological influence has at once been the best measure, and the essential condition of intellectual advance. — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
It is He who gave to this intellectual nature free-will of such a kind, that if he wishes to forsake God his… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The means of effective communication are being expropriated from the intellectual worker. — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
“It needs to be said that faith-journeys are never simply intellectual exercises.” — Timothy J. Keller Copy Share Image
Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power. — John Adams Copy Share Image
The best causes tend to attract to their support the worst arguments, which seems to be equally true in the intellectual and… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The high intellectual value of images, however, lies in the fact that they usually, and perhaps always, fit more than one actual… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
At heart, Pearson is in the intellectual property business, be it through publishing books or the 'Financial Times'. — Marjorie Scardino Copy Share Image
There's a big anti-intellectual strain in the American south, and there always has been. We're not big on thought. — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Science is an intellectual dead end, you know? It's a lot of little guys in tweed suits cutting up frogs on foundation… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image