Intellectual Quotes · Page 25

The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers.

— Benjamin Banneker

No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is…

— Booker T. Washington

I would not ever try to be a show intellectual, which I was accused of doing a while on ABC. I thought…

— Dick Cavett

There is nothing that an intellectual less likes to change than his mind, or a politician his policy.

— Theodore Dalrymple

It's what I call "mental masturbation", when you engage is some pointless intellectual exercise that has no possible meaning.

— Linus Torvalds

It's been mentioned or suggested that Paradise will not be well studied, because it's about this unimportant intellectual topic, which is religion.

— Toni Morrison

To ask for a purely intellectual proof of the existence of God is like asking for the privilege of being able to…

— Meher Baba

My primary goal of hacking was the intellectual curiosity, the seduction of adventure.

— Kevin Mitnick

In a knowledge economy, natural selection favors organizations that can most effectively harness and coordinate collective intellectual energy and creative capacity.

— Justin Rosenstein

If I can't find a theme, I can't make a film anyone else will feel. I can't laugh at intellectual humor. I'm…

— Walt Disney

“real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any…

— Oscar Wilde

Legendary innovators like Franklin, Snow, and Darwin all possess some common intellectual qualities—a certain quickness of mind, unbounded curiosity—but they also share…

— Steven Johnson

I would like to attribute my range of interests to being an independent intellectual, but although I'm independent, I'm not sure I…

— Anne Fadiman

My family are observant Muslims, but I've come to the faith through an intellectual conviction, and that's something that they've taught me.…

— Randa Abdel-Fattah

I am just postmodern enough not to trust 'postmodern' as a description of our times, for it privileges the practices and intellectual…

— Stanley Hauerwas

When you're watching Psycho, there' s that moment when you have a visceral reaction to watching someone being stabbed. And then you…

— Penn Jillette

I think good art has good concept behind it. Nothing can always articulate fully the way a Ph.D. candidate can articulate their…

— Michael C. McMillen

The delight of the Torah is ignited by an inner awareness. A man begins to sense the great tapestry of each letter…

— Abraham Isaac Kook

A multidisciplinary study group ... estimated that it would be 1980 before developments in artificial intelligence make it possible for machines alone…

— J. C. R. Licklider

These events are swirling around them. In the white community, people felt like they had no control over their neighborhoods, their destiny.…

— Sara Paretsky

We like to pretend the core ideas of the faith are more palatable or workable within our modern rationalistic approach to Scripture…

— Michael S. Heiser

The news today about 'Atomic bombs' is so horrifying one is stunned. The utter folly of these lunatic physicists to consent to…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

It's not that I am demanding empathy for trans people. It's actually more than I'm demanding that readers have empathy for themselves,…

— Torrey Peters

When asked if I consider myself Buddhist, the answer is, Not really. But it's more my religion than any other because I…

— Uma Thurman

Haitians weren't screwed-up, but everything political, intellectual, and material around them is.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Intellectuals incline to be individualists, or even independents, are not team conscious and tend to regard obedience as a surrender of personality.

— Harold Nicolson

The function of comedy is to dispelunconsciousness by turning the searchlight of the keenest moral and intellectual analysisright on to it.

— George Bernard Shaw

If you want to be an athlete, then getting good grades, going to college, and developing your intellectual skills are important.

— Tony Dungy

It's easier to fight your intellectual and ideological opponents than people you consider intellectual and ideological friends.

— Neera Tanden

The sense of ultimate truth is the intellectual counterpart of the esthetic sense of perfect beauty, or the moral sense of perfect…

— George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

The intellectual treatment of any datum, any experience, any subject, is determined by the nature of our questions, and only carried out…

— Susanne Katherina Langer

Whatever books you may read, you cannot realize the Divine merely by intellectual effort. Oneness can only be promoted by the practice…

— Sathya Sai Baba

I don't want the whole of my writing or my intellectual energy given over to race because I have diverse interests.

— Roxane Gay

Research shows that couples who have a lot of similarities, including intellectual compatibility, end up staying together.

— Helen Fisher

You don't get to be a respected intellectual by uttering truisms in monosyllables.

— Noam Chomsky

The measure of our intellectual capacity is the capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better and better…

— C. West Churchman

Where [Albert Camus] is in exile isn't especially in Paris or elsewhere, but from the intellectual world, because of his origins.

— Catherine Camus

I have spent a good part of my life showing what an intellectual bubble the Left lives in.

— Dennis Prager

If we're talking about the urban landscape as an advanced, forward-thinking art form, there must be some intellectual thinking involved.

— Ma Yansong

I've always been inspired by artists who have shown musical and intellectual curiosity and the courage to take risks.

— Renee Fleming