Intellectual Quotes · Page 23

I have been tortured with longing to believe ... and the yearning grows stronger the more cogent the intellectual difficulties stand in…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

I think because people can't understand our style, they think it's a joke. Our music isn't intellectual - we make music for…

— Watkin Tudor Jones

I think there's a natural system in your own head about how much violence the scene warrants. It's not an intellectual process,…

— Guy Ritchie

Intellectual modesty is humility as to what I know; intellectual humility is modesty as to what I do not know

— Tariq Ramadan

Human learning presupposes a specific social nature and a process by which children grow into the intellectual life of those around them

— Lev S. Vygotsky

I think, therefore I am' is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.

— Milan Kundera

I love going on Chris Hayes' show. It probably is my favorite because of the intensity of the intellectual combat.

— Matt Gaetz

Memory is the primary and fundamental power, without which there could be no other intellectual operation.

— Samuel Johnson

The reason a person is in a particular state of mind is primarily because of attraction and aversion. Attraction and aversion cause…

— Frederick Lenz

History will help to remedy intellectual faults such as excessive concentration on one line of thought, absence of understanding for other points…

— Geoffrey Elton

I believe in a world where there are no heroes, and I've read and know humanity a lot. There are moments that…

— Orhan Pamuk

I merely say that all reading for pleasure is escape, whether it be Greek, mathematics, astronomy, Benedetto Croce, or The Diary of…

— Raymond Chandler

The role of the federal government is to protect our liberties. That means they should protect our religious liberties to do what…

— Ron Paul

I yearn for intellectual sustenance on vacation but want, of course, to avoid tedium or boredom. I want to read something that…

— Max Boot

For years, members of Congress have heard from constituents who want them to protect the nation from crime, terrorism and intellectual property…

— Rebecca MacKinnon

Nothing but an imperious intellectual and moral necessity can drive into doubt a religious mind, for it is as though an earthquake…

— Annie Besant

Sometimes the former forces are in the ascendance, and "democratic governance" is eroded, though anyone familiar with intellectual history would expect that…

— Noam Chomsky

The most valuable thing a teacher can impart to children is not knowledge and understanding per se but a longing for knowledge…

— Albert Einstein

The thing to understand is that if you are going to reform society you don't start with cops. And if you are…

— Robert M. Pirsig

America is also the nameless foreigner, the homeless refugee, the hungry boy begging for a job and the black body dangling on…

— Carlos Bulosan

I am an innovator. This is a term of distinction, a term of honor, rather than something to hide or apologize for.…

— Ayn Rand

One of the great intellectual mistakes Einstein made is that he thought that space and time are physically or ontologically entangled. In…

— Kedar Joshi

“There is nothing distinctively scientific about the hypothetico-deductive process. It is not even distinctively intellectual. It is merely a scientific context for…

— Peter B. Medawar

One of the movements we have developed is to say that, just as intellectual property rights protect the inventions of individuals, common…

— Vandana Shiva

We hold from God the gift which includes all others. This gift is life - physical, intellectual, and moral life.

— Anonymous

It is never just disagreement but always intellectual dishonesty that is the apologist's worst enemy. And its apprentice is ignorance.

— Criss Jami

Stealing music is not right, and I can understand people being very upset about their intellectual property being stolen.

— Steve Jobs

I do like designing clothes that are - not exactly lofty but intellectual in their sexiness.

— Giles Deacon

I'm a bit of a deconstructionist myself. It's kind of exciting - the last intellectual thrill left. Like sawing through the branch…

— David Lodge

He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.

— Iris Murdoch

I never felt that I had the natural intellectual gifts that the people who graduate first in their class from Harvard Law…

— Megyn Kelly

I try to be feminine, yet intellectual and smart at the same time. You don't see enough of that

— Portia de Rossi

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

— Charles Bukowski

Nothing so offends the doctrinaire intellectual as our ability to achieve the momentous in a matter-of-fact way, unblessed by words.

— Eric Hoffer

“She knows that she’s probably better than him on the intellectual stuff—though not a lot—but he blows her away on the retail.”

— Daniel Halper

Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal.

— Sarah Bernhardt

Believe me, the intellectual revolution is going on, and that has to come first before you see the political changes. That's where…

— Ron Paul

Reduce intellectual and emotional noise until you arrive at the silence of yourself and listen to it.

— Richard Brautigan

My mother was a first-grade teacher, so I credit her with this lifelong intellectual curiosity I have, and love of reading and…

— Chesley Sullenberger

Intellectual slavery, of whatever nature it may be, will always have as a natural result both political and social slavery.

— Mikhail Bakunin