Intellectual Quotes · Page 26

I want big ideas to have aesthetic relevance. I want to tickle people's intellectual sensibilities and instill a sense of wonder.

— Jason Silva

The intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics.

— Jay Chiat

Love for the Lord is not an ethereal, intellectual, dreamlike thing; it is the intensest, most vital, most passionate love of which…

— Oswald Chambers

Unlike the masses, intellectuals have a taste for rationality and an interest in facts.

— Aldous Huxley

Of metaphors, those generally conduce most to energy or vivacity of style which illustrate an intellectual by a sensible object.

— Richard Whately

We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields.

— Alan Turing

Intellectual discourse and investigation is admittedly great fun but only truly meaningful when conducted in the service of others.

— Sergio De La Pava

Am I an intellectual? I don't think so. Less than people sometimes think, I have to say. But more than some others…

— Isabelle Huppert

What I was utterly convinced of, and still am, is the idea that the only responsibility the free intellectual has is vis-a-vis…

— Tawfiq al-Hakim

Every Latter-day Saint should make the study of this book a lifetime pursuit. Otherwise, he is placing his soul in jeopardy and…

— Ezra Taft Benson

What we call the freedom of the individual is not just the luxury of one intellectual to write what he likes to…

— Stephen Spender

I never wanted to be liked by the majority of people, but there were always some people that I desperately wanted to…

— James D. Watson

With our present knowledge, we can respond to the challenge of stellar space flight solely with intellectual concepts and purely hypothetical analysis.…

— Wernher von Braun

You do not need intellectuality for deep faith. You do not need it for behaving humanely towards people whether fellow Muslims or…

— Talal Asad

Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not…

— William Ellery Channing

There is no firm reason to anticipate that the intellectual capacities of peoples geographically separated in their evolution should prove to have…

— James D. Watson

Awakening is waking up from the daytime dream and realizing that who you thought you were is not limited to thought, emotion…

— Katie Davis

Once Steve Fuller said that there is this idea that your responsibility as an intellectual is just to speak the truth as…

— Julian Baggini

We have to understand that America can't just surrender and lose jobs year in and year out. We have to say to…

— Mitt Romney

I'm committed to the idea that one of the few things human beings have to offer is the richness of unconscious and…

— Ntozake Shange

The intellectual development of man, far from having get men away from war, has, rather, on the contrary, bring them to a…

— African Spir

I opposed the Fatwa against Salman Rushdie. I read the book and took a critical distance. I did not think The Satanic…

— Tariq Ramadan

I do indeed disbelieve that we or any other mortal men can attain on a given day to absolutely incorrigible and unimprovable…

— William James

Intellectuals range through the finest gradations of kind and quality: from those who are merely educated neurotics, usually with strong hidden reactionary…

— Louise Bogan

To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of eternal things; to knowledge, the rational knowledge of temporal things.

— Saint Augustine

If folk is the music of the common people and not the intellectual elite, then that's what rock is.

— Michael Penn

Among intellectuals who consider themselves 'scientific,' the phrase 'the nature of man' is apt to have the effect of a red flag…

— Murray Rothbard

Consistency in opinion is the slow poison of intellectual life, the destroyer of its vividness and energy.

— Humphry Davy

Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development.

— Oscar Wilde

Objects are inorganic and biological values; subjects are social and intellectual values.

— Robert M. Pirsig

I don't consider myself an intellectual. And this is not one of my aims. But I admire intellectual people.

— Marilyn Monroe

It's usually only the intellectual ones who understand what's going on in what I do.

— Alexander McQueen

An intellectual may be defined as a man who speaks with general authority about a subject on which he has no particular…

— Irving Kristol

Israel has created a new image of the Jew in the world - the image of a working and an intellectual people,…

— Nnamdi Azikiwe

I can't compare myself to Phil Jackson in any way, shape or form. His view on the world and his intellectual approach,…

— Jeanie Buss

Postmodernism entices us with the siren call of liberation and creativity, but it may be an invitation to intellectual and moral suicide.

— Gertrude Himmelfarb

I was anti-intellectual to the nth. Basically I liked to dance and paint, and that was about it.

— Joni Mitchell

Rebecca Goldstein is a rare find among contemporary novelists: she has intellectual muscle as well as a tender emotional reach.

— Ian Mcewan

I think the freedom to express one's views is more important than intellectual property.

— Shepard Fairey

Intellectual ''work'' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.

— Mark Twain