Intellectual Quotes · Page 22

The thing is, my dad's always been more of a bookworm; he was interested in more intellectual pursuits, but nobody can escape…

— Shakira

Investing is about intellectual honesty. You want to know what you know. You want to know, mostly, what you don't know.

— Li Lu

Acting is not an intellectual process for me. It comes from my heart. It's this strange netherworld of osmosis where I simply…

— Rhys Ifans

It is, indeed, only in old age that intellectual men attain their sublime expression, whilst portraits of them in their youth show…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The 'We Have Overcome' generation has run out of intellectual creativity but refuses to leave the political stage.

— Manning Marable

I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

— Alice James

Intellectuals (in the standard sense of the term, not [ Edward] Said's prescriptive sense) are the people who write history.

— Noam Chomsky

And amongst us one, Who most has suffer'd, takes dejectedly His seat upon the intellectual throne.

— Matthew Arnold

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

— Robert Sheaffer

I think it indisputable that the distance between the intellectual faculties of different men is greater than that between the same faculties…

— Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

It is, however, not to the museum, or the lecture-room, or the drawing- school, but to the library, that we must go…

— Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

If partisanship makes us abandon intellectual honesty, if we oppose what our opponents say or do simply because they are the ones…

— Kurt Andersen

Even before I had children I wanted the intensity of my life to get greater. I wanted to feel things more strongly.…

— Jeff Koons

When you go to a great concert, you feel this arc, almost like the music of a well-chosen set takes you on…

— John Green

These anti-public intellectuals are part of a disimagination machine that solidifies the power of the rich and the structures of the military-industrial-surveillance-academic…

— Henry Giroux

Critics I don't understand. They get too intellectual. They're not very well-versed in street talk; it takes them longer to say it.…

— David Bowie

In a world facing the revolt of ragged and hungry masses of God's children; in a world torn between the tensions of…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The most powerful influence exercised by the Arabs on general natural physics was that directed to the advances of chemistry ; a…

— Alexander von Humboldt

Man's chief difference from the brutes lies in the exuberant excess of his subjective propensities his preeminence over them simply and solely…

— William James

Just because it's a relationship, and it's based on soppy stuff, it doesn't mean you can't make intellectual decisions about it. Sometimes…

— Nick Hornby

I know a bit about his [Sirk] life, but it's more about his style than biography. He was European and came out…

— Todd Haynes

I like 'pencil-necked weasel'. It has 'pencil' in it. Pencils are good things. You can draw or write things with pencils. I…

— Neil Gaiman

I suppose I knew on an intellectual level that graves weren't especially made for getting out of. I mean, you start with…

— C.E. Murphy

I think Santa Claus is, by and large, quite beneficial, for when the child is finally allowed -- or forced -- to…

— Orson Scott Card

In the end, leadership is not intellectual or cognitive. Leadership is emotional.

— Judith M Bardwick

If you have insight, you use your inner eye, your inner ear, to pierce to the heart of things, and have no…

— Anonymous

The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies

— Basil O'Connor

For each of us there is a set limit to our intellectual powers which we cannot pass.

— Rene Descartes

“Have you guys ever thought about the fact that socks are like the donut holes of underpants?”

— Travis McElroy

[ on the "tropicalization" of intellectual property laws ] To make the digital world join in the samba.

— Gilberto Gil

“One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.”

— Alice James

In my twenties, my pleasures tended to be physical. In my thirties, my pleasures tended to be intellectual. I can't say which…

— Steve Kangas

Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories…

— Stephen Jay Gould

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Intellectual honesty consists in stating the precise conditions under which one will give up one's belief.

— Imre Lakatos

“The man who satisfies a ceaseless intellectual curiousity probably squeezes more out of life in the long run than anyone else.”

— Edmund Gosse

Owning pipelines, people, products, or even intellectual property is no longer the key to success. Openness is.

— Jeff Jarvis

All observations point to the fact that the intellectual woman is masculinized; in her, warm, intuitive knowledge has yielded to cold unproductive…

— Helene Deutsch

My own work in spin glass and its consequences has formed some of the intellectual basis for these interests.

— Philip Warren Anderson

It is only men who are free, who create the inventions and intellectual works which to us moderns make life worth while.

— Albert Einstein