Intellectual Quotes · Page 11

I was an intellectual groupie. Still am.

— Prue Leith

Philosophy, as the modern world knows it, is only intellectual club-swinging.

— H. L. Mencken

All intellectual tendencies are corrupted when they consort with power.

— Clive James

Commonplaces are the tramways of intellectual transportation.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

I am a strong believer that intellectual property rights need to be protected.

— Jim Oberweis

Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice.

— George Gissing

How could anything non-controversial be of intellectual interest to grown-ups?

— Edward Abbey

Using governmental force to impose a vision on others is intellectual sloth.

— Ken Schoolland

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

— Tibor Fischer

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

— Wayne Dyer

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

— David Seabury

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

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

— Francis Schaeffer

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

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

— Clint Eastwood

In their field they [mathematicians] do what we ought to be doing in ours. Therein lies the significant lesson ... of their…

— Robert Musil

The more physical the activity, the less the difficulties will be. The more the activity becomes intellectual and turns into motives which…

— Carl von Clausewitz

We have no proof that Socrates ever existed. We only know from witnesses to his life that he did. Like Jesus, he…

— Christopher Hitchens

Our job is not to worship history and culture like fetishes, but to feed them into our living, creative stream of personal…

— Angus MacLean

“A scientist is not to teach humans, but to serve humans A philosopher is not to teach humans, but to serve humans.…

— Abhijit Naskar

Intelligence is a separate gift, for the benefit of students, so that they may think of themselves as intellectual and not very…

— Maya Angelou

There is such a polarized discussion of economics among people like analysts, columnists, bloggers; often, they end up just saying that views…

— Adam Davidson

Being able to provoke a different point of view to the standard current ideological or political perspective as played out in conventional…

— Susie Orbach

We can have intellectual individualism and the rich cultural diversities that we owe to exceptional minds only at the price of occasional…

— Robert H. Jackson

Study and practice are both very important, but they must go hand in hand. Faith without knowledge is not sufficient. Faith needs…

— Dalai Lama

I will not pretend to justify this espionage I carried on, and I will say openly that all these signs of a…

— Hermann Hesse

Shakespeare was an intellectual ocean, whose waves touched all the shores of thought; within which were all the tides and waves of…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

We must face the fact that we are on the brink of times when man may be able to magnify his intellectual…

— Christopher Alexander

It is time for us to take off our masks, to step out from behind our personas - whatever they might be:…

— Terry Tempest Williams

Even more ominous ... is the fact that since the Second World War a new kind of intellectual has emerged in large…

— John Fowles

Certainly parents play a crucial role in the lives of individuals who are intellectually gifted or creatively talented. But this role is…

— David Elkind

You cannot steal somebody's intellectual property. Law and justice protect.

— Bikram Choudhury

Imprisonment in the contemporary is the worst of all intellectual tyrannies.

— Weston La Barre

He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.

— Abraham Lincoln

Is there intellectual life in America? At present, the answer is no.

— Camille Paglia

“We are intellectual beings- we can think, reason and solve problems;like God.”

— Moroaswi Tumiso Victor

“My dear fellow, I am prepared to prove anything.”

— Oscar Wilde

The mind does not take its complexion from the skin…

— Frederick Douglass

When works get too intellectual, they lose their intensity.

— Robert Wilson