The taboos that constitute a man's intellectual stature…

It belongs to every large nature, when it is not under the immediate power of some strong unquestioning emotion, to suspect itself, and doubt…

— George Eliot

“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

“Modern civilization depends on science … James Smithson was well aware that knowledge should not be viewed as existing in isolated parts, but as…

— Joseph Henry

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

— Bertrand Russell

Every man should be the intellectual proprietor of himself, honest with himself, and intellectually hospitable; and upon every brain, reason should be enthroned as…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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

“There is nothing more alone in the universe than man. He is alone because he has the intellectual capacity to know that he is…

— Loren Eiseley