Intellectual Quotes · Page 40

“The man who satisfies a ceaseless intellectual curiousity probably squeezes more out of life in the long run than anyone else.”

— Edmund Gosse

All observations point to the fact that the intellectual woman is masculinized; in her, warm, intuitive knowledge has yielded to cold unproductive…

— Helene Deutsch

My own work in spin glass and its consequences has formed some of the intellectual basis for these interests.

— Philip Warren Anderson

Read a record number of books in a given month. If you're focused on intellectual growth, train yourself to study harder and…

— David Goggins

Each project draws you in on its own merits as opposed to an intellectual choice of, "Well, I'm going to shift from…

— Liz Garbus

I'm calling the Cube, it's a piece of art. At the same time, it's an intellectual task as well.

— Erno Rubik

We must have had 99 per cent of the match. It was the other three per cent that cost us.

— Ruud Gullit

Deal honestly and objectively with yourself; intellectual honesty and personal courage are the hallmarks of great character.

— Brian Tracy

Junior was being chided for his low grades. Little Robert, who lived a few doors away, was held up as an example.…

— Jacob Braude

I was unpopular at school just because I was an intellectual. I always answered all the questions off the top of my…

— George Woodcock

We are now living through peak stupid with the left, and this 'toxic masculinity,' 'white patriarch' nonsense, where they've now devolved to…

— Dan Bongino

'Babylone, Babylone' is remarkable. Emmanuel is fascinated by Mexico. He knows the country without having been there... I am amazed by his…

— Brigitte Macron

Poverty is a bitter thing; but it is not as bitter as the existence of restless vacuity and physical, moral, and intellectual…

— Theodore Roosevelt

I need a challenge. I need the intellectual stimulation. I'm a member of a community on each film, working in concert to…

— Harrison Ford

This chanting of the Hare Krishna mantra is enacted from the spiritual platform and thus this sound vibration surpasses all lower strata…

— A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Voting in particular is an embarrassment, being a public display of weak character and low intelligence. Let us face the truth: Democracy,…

— Fred Reed

It must be a very dour and pessimistic astronomer indeed who seriously doubts that there must be countless numbers of intelligent civilizations…

— Robert K. G. Temple

...the souls of the dead [are] not deprived of their intellectual faculties but... they also are not lacking in feelings such as…

— John Cassian

Since the branch of philosophy on which we are at present engaged differs from the others in not being a subject of…

— Aristotle

Take a look at the current debates in Washington, and of course, everything in the media. Only one issue is discussed: the…

— Noam Chomsky

If this really is true, then greed really isn't good, after all. It really isn't the way to maximize the best possible…

— Naomi Klein

Capitalist agricultural production prevents the return to the soil of its elements consumed by man in the form of food and clothing;…

— Karl Marx

I've always thought Anne-Marie Slaughter would make a fantastic United States Senator or something. She's a real intellectual, but she's got enormous…

— Michael Ignatieff

Khalif (Caliph) Al-Ma'mun's period of rule (813 - 833 C.E.) may be considered the 'golden age' of science and learning. He had…

— John Bagot Glubb

Too many documentaries are intellectual exercises. I want documentaries to be alive.

— Davis Guggenheim

Protocol may be defined as the code of etiquette which protects royalty from the competition of intellectual and social superiors.

— Elsa Maxwell

TED was simply wonderful, an intellectual spa, a 21st-century Chataqua, superb and singular.

— Kurt Andersen

To a mind of sufficient intellectual power, the whole of mathematics would appear trivial, as trivial as the statement that a four-footed…

— Bertrand Russell

Blind belief can be comforting, but it can easily cripple reason and productivity, and stop intellectual progress.

— James Randi

But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony…

— Oscar Wilde

For intellectual authority, the appropriate version of Descartes 's cogito would be today: I am talked about, therefore I am.

— Zygmunt Bauman

The Bible doesn't explain everything necessary for our intellectual satisfaction, but it explains everything necessary for our obediance.

— Elisabeth Elliot

In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

— Simone Weil

The concept of cultural appropriation is nothing less than an intellectual fence: Keep out.

— Richard Cohen

Not by force of arms are civilizations held together, but by subtle threads of moral and intellectual principle.

— Russell Kirk

Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities will always be the favorite beverage of the intellectual.

— Thomas de Quincey

The cheap but simple human emotion of envy is the driving force of all socialism, of all anti-capitalist philosophy. It is the…

— Andrew Joseph Galambos

A relationship will be futile if it's based just on physicality. Intellectual stimulation is a must for me.

— Arjun Kapoor

Cultivate an intellectual habit of subordinating one's opinions and wishes to objective evidence and a reverence for things as they really are.

— William Ian Beardmore Beveridge

My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.

— Billy Connolly