Intellectual Quotes · Page 52

Distress at losing an object can be as much a frustration at the intellectual mystery of the disappearance as about the loss…

— Alain de Botton

For many years, I was trying to catch up and fit in a little bit more with that New York artsy intellectual…

— Lee Isaac Chung

I think if you look back through the intellectual history of human beings you can trace the way that intellectual technologies influence…

— Nicholas G. Carr

It's probably an intellectual weakness, but I look at the stars, and I say, 'There's something bigger than us out there.'

— Dan Brown

The greatest intellectual capacities are only found in connection with a vehement and passionate will.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Be wary of the arrogant intellectual who comments from the stands without having played on the field.

— Ray Dalio

Intellectual liberty [is] the right to think right and the right to think wrong. Thought is the means by which we endeavor…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Every intellectual product must be judged from the point of view of the age and the people in which it was produced.

— Walter Pater

My kids, they take a lot from me and I always come from an intellectual place. Like intellectually, not emotionally, and most…

— Mathew Knowles

Once religion has been dismissed by primarily an intellectual class of people, we lose the really useful social functions of religion... What…

— Chuck Palahniuk

When you come into my pieces, it's not an intellectual experience, it's a physical experience. It's coming at your body. There's light,…

— Bill Viola

I like to look good, but I like my body to function well more than anything. For me, it's as spiritual and…

— Willi Smith

The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual -…

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

The most dangerous condition for a man or a nation is when his intellectual side is more developed than his spiritual. Is…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Overcoming complacency is crucial at the start of any change process, and it often requires a little bit of surprise, something that…

— John P. Kotter

I had never thought that I would be involved in narrative structures. As a young guy, I was more interested in abstract…

— Anthony Braxton

The meaningful work and the meaningful relationships are, to me, comparable rewards. I think being on a mission to do something great…

— Ray Dalio

Mr. [Aldous] Huxley has been the alarming young man for a long time, a sort of perpetual clever nephew who can be…

— Elizabeth Bowen

There are, however, exceptions to this reliance on feelings as evidence of truth: if, for instance, your feelings lead to disbelief instead…

— Wendy Kaminer

At the classical origins of philosophic thought, the transcending concepts remained committed to the prevailing separation between intellectual and manual labor to…

— Herbert Marcuse

The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. His heart…

— George Orwell

Today, practically every country outside the West is undergoing an intellectual, political, and cultural churning, from China to Bolivia, Egypt to Indonesia,…

— Pankaj Mishra

The desire of excellence is the necessary attribute of those who excel. We work little for a thing unless we wish for…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Through neglect, ignorance, or inability, the new intellectual Borgias cram hairballs down our throats and refuse us the convulsion that could make…

— Ray Bradbury

I personally think intellectual property is an oxymoron. Physical objects have a completely different natural economy than intellectual goods.

— John Perry Barlow

I hardly know an intellectual man, even, who is so broad and truly liberal that you can think aloud in his society.

— Henry David Thoreau

A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way, but intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.

— Albert Einstein

Bill Gates can't control a high-level-energy dog, because his energy is very low, very calm. Very intellectual. A dog doesn't see that…

— Cesar Millan

I don't really get into a big intellectual analysis of why I am going to do a certain script or not.

— Clint Eastwood

Practice radical humility. Take no credit for your talents, intellectual abilities, aptitudes, or proficiencies. Be in a state of awe and bewilderment.

— Wayne Dyer

A public role endures for the literary high-command, as sages and seers, speaking out on social and political issues.

— Tibor Fischer

Intellectual comradeship requires that you think your thoughts through to the place where you can make the complex seem simple, the obscure…

— David Seabury

Christianity is the greatest intellectual system the mind of man has ever touched.

— Francis Schaeffer

The New England Journal of Medicine reports that 9 out of 10 doctors agree that 1 out of 10 doctors is an idiot.

— Jay Leno

I don't know much, but nor do I have the intellectual straitjacket that a lot of people inevitably pick up at university.

— Tony Robinson

The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries.

— David Rockefeller

“...She had little patience with people who got intellectually lazy when faced with a difficult concept.”

— Beth Fantaskey

It is scarcely a mark of intellectual profundity to have noticed that our society is big.

— Roger Scruton

Today the term "global" can no longer constitute a serious topic for an in-depth intellectual discussion because it simply means "Camerica".

— Genco Gulan

Teaching is been seen as kind of a moral calling and not as an intellectual job.

— Dana Goldstein