The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man…

“The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. So long as men are not trained…

— Bertrand Russell

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

— Bertrand Russell

The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. So long as men are not trained…

— Bertrand Russell

Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice.

— George Gissing

“Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice, was a characterising note of Mr Fadge’s periodical”

— George Gissing

The man at the top of the intellectual pyramid contributes the most to all those below him, but gets nothing except his material payment,…

— Ayn Rand

I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

— Nathanael Emmons

The few bright meteors in man's intellectual horizon could well be matched by women, were she allowed to occupy the same elevated position.

— Ernestine Rose

It is not true that a man's intellectual power is, like the strength of a timber beam, to be measured by its weakest point.

— George Eliot

“It becomes ever increasingly clear to many students of man and of the contemporary scene that the crucial difficulty with which we are confronted…

— Erich Fromm

Man is an intellectual animal, and therefore an everlasting contradiction to himself. His senses centre in himself, his ideas reach to the ends of…

— William Hazlitt

There's no greater tragedy than an equal intensity, in the same soul or the same man, of the intellectual sentiment and the moral sentiment.…

— Fernando Pessoa

“it is owing to a quality of the human mind, the source of everything respectable in man either as an intellectual or as a…

— John Stuart Mill

You know how much I admire Che Guevara. In fact, I believe that the man was not only an intellectual but also the most…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“Down South we've always believed that if a man had intellectual abilities, they would show through on their own without his having to brag…

— Herman E. Talmadge