Intellectual Quotes · Page 41

I am naturally prone to fun or to be funny, but when I talk about myself in interviews, then it's an intellectual…

— Morten Harket

Boston was a moral and intellectual nursery, always busy applying first principles to trifles.

— George Santayana

Greed probably figures in my intellectual life as well, as I attempt to absorb a massive amount of information with consequent mental…

— Etty Hillesum

Insight into universal nature provides an intellectual delight and sense of freedom that no blows of fate and no evil can destroy.

— Alexander von Humboldt

I say that I represent this movement because my intellectual allegiances are clearly European, not African.

— J. M. Coetzee

Algebra is the intellectual instrument which has been created for rendering clear the quantitative aspects of the world.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Japan is a well-educated, technological society. It is a free society, protects intellectual property.

— John Roos

Precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity as to those mysterious powers assumed by others.

— Charles Caleb Colton

The factor in human life provocative of a noble discontent is the gradual emergence of a sense of criticism, founded upon appreciation…

— Alfred North Whitehead

The only chance for much intellectual improvement in the female sex, was to be found in the families of the educated class…

— Abigail Adams

A smart, intellectual magazine is a difficult thing to run because of the need to manage conflicting personalities and opinionated writers who…

— Ben Domenech

You need to have tremendous confidence in your work, even a touch of arrogance, chutzpah. Many very fine researchers lack intellectual daring.…

— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

I would hardly say that I have a rich knowledge of anything in particular, but I do seem to be burdened with…

— Thomas Steinbeck

The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. If you take your children…

— Bertrand Russell

People believe that if you're concerned about the clothes you're wearing and the larger aspects of your appearance, that it's anti-intellectual. I…

— Tim Gunn

If you have an idea, you have to move on it, to make a gesture. Drawing is an immediate way of articulating…

— Jeff Koons

I wasn't always smart, I was actually very stupid in school [T]here was a boy who was very attractive who was even…

— Michel Foucault

If you're talking about intellectual and social equality for women, we're not much better off.America is still very much a male-dominated society.…

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

Our system doesn't work, and it doesn't work, ultimately, not because of Sarah Palin, or the christian right, or Glenn Beck. It…

— Chris Hedges

Man represses the irrational passions of destructiveness, hate, envy, revenge; he worships power, money, the sovereign state, the nation; while he pays…

— Erich Fromm

“For the first time after so many years I come back to cry aloud in the desert. Because this is the mission…

— José Ortega y Gasset

optimism, n. The doctrine, or belief, that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right…

— Ambrose Bierce

A sentence is like a tune. A memorable sentence gives its emotion a melodic shape. You want to hear it again, say…

— Robert Pinsky

The ideological are individuals ultimately swamped by the complexities of modern life and political and economic relations; they have deliberately attached themselves…

— Kenny Smith

The questions of today's average young person, who is the product of America's intellectual bastions, have been virtually unaddressed by the church.

— Ravi Zacharias

As a man may be eating all day, and for want of digestion is never nourished, so these endless readers may cram…

— Isaac Watts

“He is only fifteen! Does she really think he is prepared for marriage, especially with his intellectual range of a teacup?”

— Erica Sehyun Song

I was surprised. I'd always associated belief in heaven with, frankly, a kind of intellectual disengagement. But Gus wasn't dumb.

— John Green

Ideas without precedent are generally looked upon with disfavor and men are shocked if their conceptions of an orderly world challenged.

— J Harlen Bretz

A social democratic party without deep roots in the working class movement would quickly fade into an unrepresentative intellectual sect

— Roy Jenkins

The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.

— Bertrand Russell

The only way to fix Puerto Rico is with brain game, to bring the intellectual and human capital there - in a…

— Brock Pierce

Reason cannot remain a bare intellectual faculty; it must become a faculty of judgment dealing with the question of values.

— Margaret Benson

“Trees are still more soothing than steel and cement, despite the lack of a purely intellectual argument as to why this should…

— Douglas E. Richards

Ninety percent of the difficulty in your intellectual life would never have happened if you just had better taste.

— Terence McKenna

Style supposes the reunion and the exercise of all the intellectual faculties. The style is the man.

— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

The secret of life is to be found in life itself, in the full organic, intellectual and spiritual activities of our body.

— Alexis Carrel

Where questions of religion are concerned, people are guilty of every possible sort of dishonesty and intellectual misdemeanor.

— Sigmund Freud

The Philadelphia Museum of Art is a house of artistic and intellectual prostitution

— Albert C. Barnes

To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. This is the sport, the luxury, special to the intellectual man.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset