Intellectual Quotes · Page 27

The teacher who would be true to his mission and accomplish the most good, must give prominence to moral as well as…

— Sheldon Jackson

Plato's concern is not just an intellectual issue, but it is knitted with emotional life as well.

— Rebecca Goldstein

Beethoven, Schubert, Schoenberg, Berg imply a type of pianist who is intellectual. That's not always associated with female soloists.

— Jeffrey Tate

Most of the intellectual elite of the USA completely disavow the idea of absolute truth.

— Ravi Zacharias

My father was very confrontational and an intellectual bully. My mom was a peacemaker who wanted to make everyone comfortable.

— Rick Owens

“National Review's premise was that conformity was especially egregious among the intellectuals, that herd of independent minds.”

— George will

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of…

— John Ruskin

I'm no lyrical stylist; you wouldn't pick me for a perfect sentence, and I certainly wouldn't describe my novels as intellectual.

— Joanna Trollope

The fashionable idiocy that haters must have justifications is one of those ideas that George Orwell said only an intellectual could believe…

— Thomas Sowell

Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians…

— John Maynard Keynes

Fancy, an animal faculty, is very different from imagination, which is intellectual. The former is passive; but the latter is active and…

— Joseph Joubert

Clearly, only very unequal intellectual and moral standing could justify having equality imposed, whether the people want it or not, as Dworkin…

— Thomas Sowell

In certain pious people I have found a hatred of reason, and have been favourably disposed to them for it: their bad…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

For many decades now - and certainly during my adult life in academe - the Western intellectual world has not been convinced…

— Arthur Peacocke

The study of infinity is much more than a dry academic game. The intellectual pursuit of the absolute infinity is, as Georg…

— Rudy Rucker

Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence,…

— Anonymous

The greatest crisis of our lives is neither economic, intellectual, nor even what we usually call religious. It is a crisis of…

— Marc Gafni

Embedded in every technology there is a powerful idea, sometimes two or three powerful ideas. Like language itself, a technology predisposes us…

— Neil Postman

Every breeze wafts intelligence from country to country, every wave rolls it and gives it forth, and all in turn receive it.…

— Daniel Webster

Conservatism, though a necessary element in any stable society, is not a social program; in its paternalistic, nationalistic and power adoring tendencies…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

For more than twenty-five years my mind had been deeply troubled by the fact that these mechanical and scientific achievements ofman had…

— Virginia Gildersleeve

“In every country the intellectual class is the most influential class. This is the class which can foresee advice and lead. In…

— B.R. Ambedkar

My aim is to be understood by everyone. I reject the 'depth' that people demand nowadays, into which you can never descend…

— George Grosz

Human beings are very unbalanced and prone to go off on tangents. In every area of life- with too great emphasis on…

— Edith Schaeffer

Personally, I regard myself as an intellectual 'rebel,' kicking against the 'old colonialism-imperialism paradigm' which has landed Africa in a conundrum.

— George Ayittey

The gas-law of learning: . . . any amount of information no matter how small will fill any intellectual void no matter how large.

— Hugh Nibley

Life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his…

— Samuel Johnson

The more intellectual you are, the more egoistic you are, and surrendering becomes more difficult.

— Mata Amritanandamayi

Calculus is the outcome of a dramatic intellectual struggle which has lasted for twenty-five hundred years.

— Richard Courant

Real intellectuals like to escape once in a while from their world of intellect.

— Desi Arnaz

When I write my music I see all the rivers flowing... sensual, spiritual, religious, animal, intellectual.

— Laura Nyro

My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his intellectual freedom

— Franz Boas

I don't want to pretend like I'm some intellectual person who understands Flannery O'Connor.

— Sara Zarr

... the novel is called upon like no other art form to incorporate the intellectual content of an age.

— Robert Musil

I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much.

— Newt Gingrich

Trump is, in part, a reaction to the intellectual corruption of the Republican Party. That ought to be obvious to his critics,…

— Tucker Carlson

The more modest its intellectual ballast, the more exclusively it takes into consideration the emotions of the masses, the more effective [propaganda]…

— Adolf Hitler

[To Aquinas] the senses are what we have in common with dumb animals. ... Our better part [is] the mind ... and…

— Anthony John Patrick Kenny

I was born in France. My father was a renowned French philosopher and journalist, and my mother was a painter. So I…

— Matthieu Ricard

The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.

— Anonymous