Intellectual Quotes · Page 4

He was not so much brain as earwax

— William Shakespeare

I'm a fake intellectual.

— Adam Brody

Sometimes it's smart to be scared.

— Cynthia Lewis

I don't like the intellectual label.

— Noam Chomsky

Chess is intellectual gymnastics.

— Wilhelm Steinitz

“I am an intellectual (who makes fun of other intellectuals).”

— Muriel Barbery

“My beautiful intellectual. My mad Egyptologist.”

— Jae T. Jaggart

The British judiciary needs to support intellectual property.

— James Dyson

There is nothing as dull as an intellectual ally after a certain age.

— Ben Hecht

He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind.

— Aneurin Bevan

“All intellectual labor is inherently humorous”

— George Bernard Shaw

Consistency is a paste jewel that only cheap men cherish.

— William Allen White

Even babies like to grab for things just beyond their reach.

— Cynthia Lewis

In fact, Obama's intellectual curiosity and suppleness of mind is, in my view, one of his biggest selling points, whatever your political…

— Norah Vincent

Research must continue to be the centerpiece of intellectual life, and our commitment to research must grow, because our problems are growing.

— Ernest L. Boyer

“Ideology is: intellectual ordering of the feelings; an objective connection among them that makes the subjective connection easier.”

— Robert Musil

“Upon the one thing every writer absolutely must have, and that is intellectual curiosity.”

— Phillip Athans

All our inventions have endowed material forces with intellectual life, and degraded human life into a material force.

— Karl Marx

Yeah, the New York Times is very intellectual and very, very prestigious, but it doesn't reach the market that People magazine does

— Edward James Olmos

Philosophy must never be divorced from action. Unless it is put into practice, philosophy is nothing more than an intellectual game.

— Josei Toda

When your thoughts and opinions become intellectual gods in rebellion against the Word of God, you are in idolatry.

— John Hagee

High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with…

— Henry A. Kissinger

To contribute to the emergence of a society in which development will supplant stagnation, in which growth will take the place of…

— Paul A. Baran

Collective wisdom, alas, is no adequate substitute for the intelligence of individuals. Individuals who opposed received opinions have been the source of…

— Bertrand Russell

My husband asked me once why I read so many mysteries, and part of it is just intellectual, part of it is…

— Diana Gabaldon

I love working with Angel Deradoorian, she's a joy to work with. She's fab at singing and she has a real... she…

— Rostam Batmanglij

Today in the west the word 'guru' has come to mean someone who leads a cult, someone who deprives others of their…

— Frederick Lenz

Don't blame me for the fact that competent programming, as I view it as an intellectual possibility, will be too difficult for…

— Edsger Dijkstra

As one conservative intellectual said to me - he said if the choice is between [Joseph] Stalin and [Adolf] Hitler, I'd pick…

— Mara Liasson

I was really looking at computers as a way to understand the mind. But at M.I.T., my mind was blown by having…

— Seymour Papert

Democracy maintains that government is established for the benefit of the individual, and is charged with the responsibility of protecting the individual,…

— Harry S. Truman

“Neglecting criticizing the ideas and putting them on the knowledge scale, pushes the person towards a dead end tunnel; it has no…

— Maryam Abdullah Alnaymi

The emphasis on personal responsibility is something we've had in black America from the get-go. Every major leader and intellectual worth her…

— Michael Eric Dyson

I sometimes ask myself how it came about that I was the one to develop the theory of relativity. The reason, I…

— Albert Einstein

I recently went to my staircase at Clare College, Cambridge and there were women there! There have been a lot of convincing…

— James D. Watson

Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at…

— Christopher Hitchens

“An intellectual is usually someone who isn't exactly distinguished by his intellect. He claims that label to compensate for his inadequacies. It's…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side.

— Vaclav Havel

“Simplicity is an intellectual achievement, one of the greatest.”

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“[S]cripture are not weapons in intellectual warfare.”

— Ravi Ravindra