Intellectual Quotes · Page 49

Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principals to trifles.

— George Santayana

The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - taking an intellectual form.

— Chauncey Wright

“Intellectual talent will give us the upper-hand in the game of life. Fortunately, we all can develop it”

— Julian Pencilliah

The best students are ones that are willing to take intellectual risks and challenge conventional thinking.

— Oren Etzioni

It befuddles me why I was offered so many intense, intellectual movies when I don't take myself seriously.

— Konkona Sen Sharma

If an actor tries to understand too much, he will act in an intellectual and unnatural manner.

— Michelangelo Antonioni

We as a music ­community have our own issues about advocacy, copyright, intellectual ­property, being paid fairly for the work that we…

— Neil Portnow

I know some real intellectual people who might laugh, very close friends who might laugh when I'm said to be an intellectual.

— Isabelle Huppert

Practical application is the only mordant which will set things in the memory. Study without it is gymnastics, and not work, which…

— James Russell Lowell

I am passionate about everything in my life--first and foremost, passionate about ideas. And that's a dangerous person to be in this…

— Anonymous

Some novelists are luckier than others in the eras of their formative intellectual years, but all Weltanschauungs return, which means that most…

— Jane Smiley

The trouble with a lot of artists today is that they have too much technique and equipment. They don't know what to…

— Alexander Calder

In the Catholic Worker we must try to have the voluntary poverty of St. Francis, the charity of St. Vincent de Paul,…

— Peter Maurin

I'd grown up in a Presbyterian church, but I really didn't know Christ personally in my heart. I knew him, but I…

— Billy Graham

... it is a welcome symptom in an age which is commonly denounced as materialistic, that it makes heroes of men whose…

— Albert Einstein

I don't want people running around saying Gwen Brooks's work is intellectual. That makes people think instantly about obscurity. It shouldn't have…

— Gwendolyn Brooks

According to the teaching of our Lord, what is wrong with the world is precisely that it does not believe in God.…

— John Baillie

For the child whose impulsiveness is indulged, who retains his primitive-discharge mechanisms, is not only an ill-behaved child but a child whose…

— Selma Fraiberg

It has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

We see films all the time, whether they have access to all kinds of intellectual property or artifacts, and the one thing…

— John Ridley

Western societies from ancient Athens to imperial Rome to the French republic rarely collapsed because of a shortage of resources or because…

— Victor Davis Hanson

The collective psychology is something very close to being sacred - we can do it but we don't do it. We should…

— Tariq Ramadan

Vegetarianism is not implicitly important for the mental progress or the intellectual development, unless it is supposed to be a remedy to…

— Franz Bardon

Even the wisest of mankind cannot live by reason alone; pure arrogant reason, denying the claims of prejudice (which commonly are also…

— Russell Kirk

Intellectual freedom is the only guarantee of a scientific - democratic approach to politics, economic development, and culture.

— Andrei Sakharov

Freud "interpreted" dreams by treating them as intellectual riddles whose details, once processed through free association, exposed hidden wishes.

— Rodger Kamenetz

“The moment a realm of intellectual activity is codifiable, it ceases to be uniquely human.”

— Anonymous

In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side-by-side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand.

— Gerald Holton

I hate intellectual discussion. When I hear the words 'phenomenology' or 'structuralism', I reach for my buck knife.

— Edward Abbey

I wish I knew as much about anything today as I knew about everything when I was twenty.

— Bill Ayers

“Intellectual death is endemic in areas where people are not prepared to gain new information for development. Learning is the intervention!”

— Israelmore Ayivor

Society is not merely a select body of spiritual or intellectual persons, but a great organism composed of all kinds of members,…

— Robert Hugh Benson

The intellectual life may be kept clean and healthful, if man will live the life of nature, and not import into his…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A philosopher is a sort of intellectual yokel who gawks at things that sensible people take for granted.

— Alan Watts

I need three million dollars to make a low-budget, intellectual, artistic, exciting, erotic movie with a great soundtrack.

— Ray Manzarek

To me, at its best, that's what art should do, perform both the emotional and intellectual function.

— Dave Holland

I read a lot of G.K. Chesterton. It was a fairly conventional intellectual path to the Catholic church, I would say.

— Ross Douthat

I kind of follow in the tradition of some folks - some thinkers and scholars I really look up - who reject…

— Clint Smith

I don't think I could live with someone that I didn't have an intellectual friendship with.

— Jonathan Franzen

The help which tends to make us spiritually strong is the highest help, next to it comes intellectual help and after that…

— Swami Vivekananda