Intellectual Quotes · Page 19

There is nothing as dull as an intellectual ally after a certain age.

— Ben Hecht

The British judiciary needs to support intellectual property.

— James Dyson

“My beautiful intellectual. My mad Egyptologist.”

— Jae T. Jaggart

“Simplicity is an intellectual achievement, one of the greatest.”

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side.

— Vaclav Havel

Even babies like to grab for things just beyond their reach.

— Cynthia Lewis

Consistency is a paste jewel that only cheap men cherish.

— William Allen White

An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.

— B.K.S. Iyengar

I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty.

— Claude Levi-Strauss

Great art is always a balancing act. But all art has both - an emotional content and an intellectual content.

— George L. Carlson

I would call an intellectual one whose instrument of work - his mind - is also his major source of pleasure; a…

— Marya Mannes

Literary commercialism is lowering the intellectual standard to accommodate the purse and to meet a frivolous demand for amusement instead of for…

— Mary Baker Eddy

A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual.

— Anthony Burgess

They'll remember you if you're the best reader in class-or if you throw up at lunch.

— Cynthia Lewis

If the person you are trying to diagnose politically is some sort of intellectual, the chances are two to one he is…

— Vance Packard

The universe was a vast machine yesterday, it is a hologram today. Who knows what intellectual rattle we'll be shaking tomorrow.

— R. D. Laing

Academic disciplines are subject to being overtaken by attacks of "knowingness"- a state of mind and soul that prevents shudders of awe…

— Richard Rorty

I'm not a twentieth-century novelist, I'm not modern, and certainly not postmodern. I follow the form of the nineteenth-century novel; that was…

— John Irving

Generally speaking, it's a matter of only mild intellectual interest to me whether the earth goes around the sun or the sun…

— Edward Abbey

One of the categories of people I don't like much are intellectuals. People say, 'Oh, you're an intellectual,' and I say, 'No!'…

— Paul Johnson

Race does not come into it. It is pure religion and culture. Something about the cultural tradition of Jews is way, way…

— Richard Dawkins

Are zombies possible? They're not just possible, they're actual. We're all zombies. Nobody is conscious — not in the systematically mysterious way…

— Daniel Dennett

My childhood is more hick than I could ever possibly relate to you, and also more intellectual than you would ever expect.…

— Shea Hembrey

That afternoon I came to understand that one of the deepest purposes of intellectual sophistication is to provide distance between us and…

— Richard Russo

Writing a book about Jeremy Corbyn, set out with two objectives. The first was simple: to explain how he became the leader…

— Alex Nunns

Can anything be more disgusting than to hear people called 'educated' making small jokes about eating ham, and showing themselves empty of…

— George Eliot

I believe, indeed, that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and factual, in our education, has…

— Albert Einstein

For everyone who, having no artistic sense-that is to say, no submission to subjective reality-may have the knack of reasoning about art…

— Marcel Proust

I think serious research tends to be associated with higher academic quality, more prestige, more resources, and even, heaven help us, better…

— Nicholas Lemann

“Anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the businessman," by which he meant that those at the top of the heap use…

— Anonymous

The principle itself of dogmatic religion, dogmatic morality, dogmatic philosophy, is what requires to be rooted out; not any particular manifestation of…

— John Stuart Mill

Women while in college ought to have the broadest possible education. This college education should be the same as men's, not only…

— M. Carey Thomas

“[S]cripture are not weapons in intellectual warfare.”

— Ravi Ravindra

Your average sitcom writer is a very intellectual person.

— Brad Rutter

I can see the carrot at the end of the tunnel.

— Stuart Pearce

Every piece of the puzzle that doesn't fit gets you closer to the answer.

— Cynthia Lewis

...your propensity to evaluation depends on your intellectual abilities!

— Jâ¬mmÂ¥J

To be free is of the essence of every intellectual being.

— Jacques Maritain

An artist is a person who has invented an artist.

— Harold Rosenberg

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

— Leonardo da Vinci