Intellectual Quotes · Page 15

May the most you desire be the least you recieve !

— Anonymous

To be intellectual does not require one to be alienated and oppositional.

— Nancy Pearcey

In chess there is a world of intellectual values.

— Gerald Abrahams

Nerd? I prefer the term Intellectual Badass!

— Green Monk

He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.

— Robert Moses

“Astonishing intellectual sinew and clarity exfoliates in eschewed dissent.”

— Sravani Saha Nakhro

“He was born to be alone, a damned cold intellectual, an egoist.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

We need modesty not only in the way we dress; we need intellectual modesty.

— Tariq Ramadan

I'm too intellectual. I don't think that the theological vocabulary is as important as the experience.

— Rodger Kamenetz

I treat everyone equally whether you are an intellectual, a layman or an auto driver.

— Joy Mathew

Sometimes we have to be cat, sometimes rat, but eventually we evolve to become more intellectual.

— Jatin Tanwer

When you get a critique, people think you're criticizing them but it's really an intellectual conversation. You can't get emotionally attached.

— Kalup Linzy

I've always made my decisions based on two factors: intellectual analysis and my gut. And when they meet, that's a go from…

— Michael Ovitz

Let us by wise and constitutional measures promote intelligence among the people as the best means of preserving our liberties.

— James Monroe

“My favourite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence. [ Sources and Acknowledgements : Chapter 19]”

— Arthur C. Clarke

The object of basic education is the physical, intellectual and moral development of children through the medium of handicraft.

— Mahatma Gandhi

To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

charity is a calm, severe duty; it must be intellectual, to be advantageous. It is a strange mistake that it should ever…

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The term girl not only serves to avoid certain anxiety-arousing connotations inherent in the word woman regarding aggression, sexuality, and reproduction, it…

— Harriet Lerner

I have been meditating for many years now, but I think for quite a few years my relationship with meditation was very…

— Karan Bajaj

I wasn't political enough to write articles about myself or go to cocktail parties, meaning that not only has my art been…

— Michael Heizer

My dear Miss Glory, Robots are not people. They are mechanically more perfect than we are, they have an astounding intellectual capacity,…

— Karel Capek

A novel is a commodity that fulfills a certain need; people need to buy daydreams like they need to buy ice cream…

— John Dos Passos

Next time you open the paper, and you see an intellectual property decision, a telecoms decision, it's not about something small and…

— Yochai Benkler

What is irreversible in the Arab world is this intellectual revolution, the awakening that we can get rid of dictators. That is…

— Tariq Ramadan

Man offers himself to God. He stands before Him like the canvas before the painter or the marble before the sculptor. At…

— Alexis Carrel

Given the power and influence that science increasingly has in our daily lives, it is important that we as citizens of an…

— Massimo Pigliucci

O God, teach me to be satisfied with my own helplessness in the spiritual life. Teach me to be content with Your…

— Thomas Merton

A necessary part of our intelligence is on the line as the oral tradition becomes less and less important. There was a…

— Wes Jackson

It is much easier to make intellectual messes than it is to clarify complicated issues, especially when real solutions would challenge the…

— David W. Orr

I have bad days. Sometimes I have a lot of bad days. By and large, I think most people fall into a…

— Maria Popova

Politics is a dirty business, a ruse, an ideological cul-de-sac, a vast looter of intellectual and financial resources, a lie that corrupts,…

— Jeffrey Tucker

“Clarity is a sign of intellectual energy.”

— Phil Cooke

Jesuits encourage an intellectual rigor in a way that I like.

— Alexander Payne

What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.

— Raymond Aron

The history of intellectual progress is written in the lives of infidels.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

“Introspection does not need to be a still life. It can be an active alchemy.”

— Anaïs Nin

Beware the artist who's an intellectual also. The artist who doesn't fit.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

My dad was a miner, but he was very much an intellectual. He loved to read.

— Homer Hickam

I've been called many things, but never an intellectual.

— Tallulah Bankhead