I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist. — William Golding Copy Share Image
The intellectual is, quite simply, a human being who has a pencil in his or her hand when reading a book. — George Steiner Copy Share Image
There is far too much of the feeding-bottle in education and young people ought to be supplied with good intellectual food and… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
A relativist is an individual who doesn't know the difference between an adjective and an adverb. — Bill Gaede Copy Share Image
A mind truly cultivated never feels that the intellectual process is complete until it can reproduce in some media the thing which… — Ida Tarbell Copy Share Image
My whole career I've been interested by the distinction between an emotional and an intellectual response to an artwork. — Janet Echelman Copy Share Image
Dartmouth is the place I've devoted my life to, so it's very sad to see this kind of decline in the intellectual… — Jon Appleton Copy Share Image
Life is not intellectual or critical, but sturdy. Its chief good is for well-mixed people who can enjoy what they find, without… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I never had an intellectual struggle with the Bible, with the gospel, with the claims of Christ. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
Once I started working with older people, I realized how much I enjoyed the intellectual challenge of taking care of patients who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The EU and the U.S. often work together to develop international standards. This is the case in fighting terrorism and transnational crime,… — John Bruton Copy Share Image
I think one of the important evolutions is that we no longer feel compulsively the need to argue, or to justify things… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
The intellectual's struggle to deny the obvious is never more desperate than when reality is unpleasant and at variance with his preconceptions… — Anthony Daniels Copy Share Image
The problems of financing the universities and their intellectual freedom, threatened by political and bureaucratic interference, are problems which are invariant under… — Serge Lang Copy Share Image
Pure, spiritual, intellectual love shot form their faces like barbedlightning. It was so unlike the love we experience that its expressioncould easily… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Movement, or physical activity, is thus an essential factor in intellectual growth, which depends upon the impressions received from outside. Through movement… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
What has been forgotten is that there were major intellectual breakthroughs in the 1960s, thanks to North American writers of an older… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
If you see the intersection of time and space, you experience complete freedom of being. This state of existence is completely beyond… — Dainin Katagiri Copy Share Image
There was a time when conservative intellectuals raised the level of American public debate and helped to keep it sober. Those days… — Mark Lilla Copy Share Image
The intellectual and moral failures common to America's general officer corps in Vietnam and Iraq constitute a crisis in American generalship. Any… — Paul Yingling Copy Share Image
I've come to realize that most of my intellectual postures and a lot of my intellectualism is super defensive and really symptomatic… — How to Dress Well Copy Share Image
Odd words floated back to them over the hundreds of heads. "Nobility of spirit"..."intellectual contribution"..."greatness of heart"...It did not mean very much.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
So, ultimately, in order to understand nature it may be necessary to have a deeper understanding of mathematical relationships. But the real… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
In an age of information overload ... the last thing any of us needs is more information about God. We need the… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
American gentlemen are a cross between English and French men, and yet really altogether like neither. They are more refined and modest… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
I have always believed the thesis that one's politics and the character of one's intellectual work are inseparable. — Whitfield Diffie Copy Share Image
The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will. — J. Arthur Thomson Copy Share Image
Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
In our country, the vast majority of our critical infrastructure and intellectual property is of course in the hands of the private… — Christopher A. Wray Copy Share Image
There was not an awareness of pop culture in the household. There was a lot of respect for working hard, and for… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing. — Richard Rorty Copy Share Image
That's what social media is, that's what Twitter is, that's what Facebook posts are. It's just really anti-intellectual. — David Cross Copy Share Image
In its artless cruelty, Dallas is superior to any "intelligent" critique that can be made of it. That is why intellectual snobberymeets… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
Production is not something physical, material, and external; it is a spiritual and intellectual phenomenon. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
There's nothing but spirit in music. That's all it is. Yeah, there's a lot of intellectual elements to it, but no matter… — Amos Lee Copy Share Image
This revolution, the information revolution, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy. — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
DuBois - my intellectual hero - had written an obit of Madam, praising her... I began to see Madam Walker beyond the… — A'Lelia Bundles Copy Share Image
I am not an intellectual. An intellectual is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso, whereas I just say… — Sebastian Horsley Copy Share Image
A culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
