Intellectual Quotes · Page 2

Our students wanted to know everything: but only the newest theory seemed to them worth bothering with. Knowing nothing of the intellectual…

— Claude Levi-Strauss

In any given society the authority of man over man runs in inverse proportion to the intellectual development of that society.

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Plain intellectual thinking is the peak of ignorance because all that you will know is to play with a few aspects and…

— Jaggi Vasudev

Anarchism is a definite intellectual current in the life of our times, whose adherents advocate the abolition of economic monopolies and of…

— Rudolf Rocker

...There is no study in the world which brings into more harmonious action all the faculties of the mind than [mathematics], ...…

— James Joseph Sylvester

Some novelists are luckier than others in the eras of their formative intellectual years, but all Weltanschauungs return, which means that most…

— Jane Smiley

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

— Anthony Burgess

Jowett, in his day, did probably more than any other single man to let some fresh air into the exhausted atmosphere of…

— Benjamin Jowett

Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well.

— Alexander Pope

I consider the differences between man and animals in propensities, feelings, and intellectual faculties, to be the result of the same cause…

— Sir William Lawrence, 1st Baronet

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

Intellectual activity is a danger to the building of character.

— Joseph Goebbels

Religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. Destroying intellectual freedom is always evil, but only religion makes doing evil…

— Philip Pullman

Every man who expresses an honest thought is a soldier in the army of intellectual liberty.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Because my graduate academic training at law school was not one that included most of the intellectual traditions I find useful for…

— Dean Spade

Corporately contrived art product replaces inspired intellectual property with ineffectual poperty.

— Vanna Bonta

I couldn't stand being identified by my sexuality, I retaliated by insisting that people regard me for my intellectual worth. My intellect…

— Leora Tanenbaum

My husband asked me once why I read so many mysteries, and part of it is just intellectual, part of it is…

— Diana Gabaldon

Great causes cannot be served by intellectual equipment alone, they call for spiritual effort of soul-force.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Everybody knows what they were kind of drawn towards or what they're gifted at and it's more of courage and looking at…

— Robert Greene

[On Cantor's work:] The finest product of mathematical genius and one of the supreme achievements of purely intellectual human activity.

— David Hilbert

Again, I hear almost everyday from atheists who write off religion as primitive, premodern nonsense. I summon Aquinas, Augustine, Paul [of Tarsus],…

— Robert Barron

The convictions that leaders have formed before reaching high office are the intellectual capital they will consume as long as they continue…

— Henry A. Kissinger

Turning 50 is a little bit of a 'taking stock' moment. I feel probably a little dumber. I don't think I'm as…

— Flea

Christianity also stands in opposition to intellectual, as well as physical, health. To doubt becomes sin. 'Faith means not wanting to know…

— Robert Sheaffer