Intellectual Quotes · Page 24

As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted.

— Mary Augusta Ward

Healthy relationships should always begin at the spiritual and intellectual levels - the levels of purpose, motivation, interests, dreams,and personality.

— Myles Munroe

Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other…

— Gerald Brenan

My pacifism is not based on any intellectual theory but on a deep antipathy to every form of cruelty and hatred.

— Albert Einstein

Microsoft is a big intellectual roach motel. All the big minds go in, and they don't come out.

— Paul Saffo

By activating an expansive, tolerant, and creative mindset, positive feelings maximize the social, intellectual, and physical benefits that will accrue.

— Martin Seligman

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the…

— Thomas Sowell

To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education.

— William Glasser

It is the inevitable effect of religion on public policy that makes it a matter of public concern. Advocates of religiosity extol…

— Wendy Kaminer

I oppose piracy and want to see intellectual property protected because that is what fosters and rewards innovation. But SOPA won't accomplish…

— Jared Polis

Fundamentalism is rigorously and systematically used to indoctrinate and subjugate young minds. It is a contraceptive designed to prevent intellectual fertilization.

— Stephen Jay Gould

Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern…

— Harry S. Truman

America can compete with anyone in the world as long as the playing field is level. China's been cheating over the years.…

— Mitt Romney

To set aside one’s prejudices, one’s present needs, and one’s own self interest in making a decision as a director for a…

— Mervyn King

That the sweetly intoxicating three-four rhythm which took hold of hand & foot, necessarily eclipsed great & serious music & made the…

— Eduard Hanslick

People who were not active in the intellectual life of the country could go on without feeling restricted, except they could not…

— Stefan Heym

I had amazing intellectual privilege as a kid. My mom taught me to read when I was two or three. When I…

— Chris Abani

Modern physics has taught us that the nature of any system cannot be discovered by dividing it into its component parts and…

— Max Planck

It is a curious paradox that precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity, to those mysterious powers…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Bernard Williams has been a distinctive presence on the intellectual scene for more than three decades. . . . His writings do…

— Colin McGinn

The man at the top of the intellectual pyramid contributes the most to all those below him, but gets nothing except his…

— Ayn Rand

The central fact for me is, I think, that the [role of the] intellectual... cannot be played without a sense of being…

— Edward Said

Success is not in obtaining the thing. Because there's always another thing. And then you look back on it, and for me,…

— Ray Dalio

We can't have close to 90 percent of those prenatally diagnosed with an intellectual disability being aborted; 90 percent not going to…

— Timothy Shriver

The fact is that the culture does not have only positive effects on our intellectual and moral functions but also negative effects.

— Erich Fromm

Many people in the intellectual elite are very scared of shouting. They insist on very quiet murmurs.

— Alain de Botton

Intellectual food is like any other; it is pleasanter and more beneficial to take it with a spoon than a shovel.

— Mark Twain

It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble.

— H. G. Wells

Americans have been selling this view around the world: that progress comes from perfect protection of intellectual property.

— Lawrence Lessig

It is always the task of the intellectual to "think otherwise." This is not just a perverse idiosyncrasy. It is an absolutely…

— Harvey Cox

...as man under pressure tends to give in to physical and intellectual weakness, only great strength of will can lead to the…

— Carl von Clausewitz

It was always said that the big distinction between the French and the English is that the English are intelligent and the…

— Anonymous

“My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger" -…

— Sherry Marie Gallagher

Intellectual neutrality is not possible in a historical world of exploitation and oppression.

— Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza

I'm an intellectual, but I've always had jobs that required physical labor above all else.

— Niall Matter

Make no mistake about it: Law school is not a bastion of intellectual discourse.

— Tucker Max

Men are not narrow in their intellectual interests by nature; it takes special and rigorous training to accomplish that end.

— Jacob Viner

I want to work with non-profits that stimulate growth to the community. Whether it is economic growth, intellectual, or freedom.

— Gbenga Akinnagbe

Intellectual life requires for its expansion and manifestation the influences and assimilation of the interests and affections of others.

— Jane Addams

Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.

— Jorge Luis Borges