Intellectual Quotes · Page 43

I'm strictly for Stevenson. I don't dig the intellectual bit, but I'm telling you, man, he knows the most.

— Elvis Presley

That's a genre that we haven't seen much of for a while. Those action-adventure-comedy, but yet intellectual films.

— Ashley Zukerman

[Antonio] Gramsci's words and actions explain their assessment, though I think we should refrain from using the term "model intellectual" for him…

— Noam Chomsky

The American nation, in its march onward and upward, can not publicly choke the intellectual and political activity of half its citizens…

— Victoria Woodhull

Successful ecologists are successful in part because they have prepared their minds to attack scientific problems using a variety of intellectual tools.

— David J. Anderson

They're now turning those seeds into intellectual property, so they have a virtual lock on the seeds upon which we all depend…

— Jeremy Rifkin

'Men with Guns' - the producer's cut did not have the artistic and intellectual merit I hoped for, although I am still…

— Kari Skogland

Nothing appeals to intellectuals more than the feeling that they represent 'the people'. Nothing, as a rule, is further from the truth

— Paul Johnson

“Intellectuals are a pretty unique species all by themselves, given to advocating things out of sheer brazenness that they could not themselves…

— Matthew Scully

When I decided to see what Nascar was all about in 2005, it was an intellectual project, the same reason I went…

— S.E. Cupp

Motherhood gives you access to a range of different intellectual experiences and ways of seeing the world, which, in a way, makes…

— Alissa Quart

But nothing ever put 'Hoppy' in the shade. No one could fail to recognize in the little figure... the authentic gold of…

— Joseph Needham

It is better for the intellectual not to talk all the time. To begin with, it would exhaust him, and, above all,…

— Albert Camus

I wouldn't describe that "position" as "parasitic." I'd describe that experience as "edifying." I don't merely write from a critical intellectual distance.…

— Bruce Sterling

If you're in front of an audience and your voice, your mannerism, your pattern of speech, your intellectual approach to the performance…

— Adrian Lester

I led the life of an intellectual up until a certain age. I remember Freud's 'Interpretation of Dreams' was a big favorite…

— Wallace Shawn

I think what drives scientists is this tremendous intellectual adventure - pushing the boundaries of knowledge, walking down a track that nobody…

— Suzanne Cory

The practice of celibacy alone was opening me up to a deeper sense of the way the mind-body connection works. I saw…

— Noah Levine

I was raised a right-wing Republican and was about eighteen when I had to admit to myself that in regards to the…

— Steve Erickson

One of the unspoken themes that I'm grappling with in Day of Honey is the relationship between violence and cosmopolitanism. It's one…

— Annia Ciezadlo

What I liked about Mulder was his quality of not caring what other people thought of him. He was very independent. He…

— David Duchovny

The intellectual is not defined by professional group and type of occupation. Nor are good upbringing and a good family enough in…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

A tendency to resume the same mode of action at stated times is peculiarly the characteristic of the nervous system; and on…

— George Combe

True myths may serve for thousands of years as an inexhaustible source of intellectual speculation, religious joy, ethical inquiry, and artistic renewal.…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Ads represent the main channel of intellectual and artistic effort in the modern world.

— Marshall McLuhan

Your physical, mental and intellectual resources - continually growing and changing - are your personal capital.

— Brian Tracy

The contraction of theological influence has been at once the best measure, and the essential condition of intellectual advance.

— William Edward Hartpole Lecky

The first thing I thought [when I read the script] was that Frasier was an intellectual at some points but also an…

— Kelsey Grammer

I'm not interested in the fact that a writer may label himself as being intellectual or anti-intellectual. l'm really interested in the…

— Jorge Luis Borges

Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng possess a level of intellectual self-confidence usually found among undergraduates. They always have.

— Nick Boles

My favorite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence'.

— Arthur C. Clarke

Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.

— Imre Lakatos

Good politicians need not be intellectuals, but they should have intellectual lives.

— Gary Gutting

We are critical and skeptical. But when we are absorbed in a story, we drop our intellectual guard.

— Jonathan Gottschall

Lotte Lenya was all emotion. She wasn't anything but emotion. She was not an intellectual.

— John Hurt

'Money' is never about money. It's an intellectual exchange for something that you believe will make you feel better.

— Debbie Millman

There has also been a change - a slippage - in our intellectual and moral strength. Seven lean years of drouth and…

— John F. Kennedy

I realized that there was an intellectual content in music, a kind of thinking, that I would never be able to hear.

— Garth Greenwell

Unfortunately, nature seems unaware of our intellectual need for convenience and unity, and very often takes delight in complication and diversity.

— Santiago Ramon y Cajal

Ambition is the subtlest beast of the intellectual and moral field. It is wonderfully adroit in concealing itself from its owner.

— John Adams