Intellectual Quotes · Page 28

I didn't know many classes where I could try and relate the thing that I really loved and wanted to do into…

— Jake Gyllenhaal

The animal has no intellectual capacity to justify or to find reasons to exist. An animal just exists because it's the natural…

— Steven Spielberg

A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen,…

— Nelson Mandela

Persons of slender intellectual stamina dread competition, as dwarfs are afraid of being run over in the street.

— William Hazlitt

We owe to memory not only the increase of our knowledge, and our progress in rational inquiries, but many other intellectual pleasures

— Samuel Johnson

Both total accommodation to the culture and total resistance to it are usually signs of intellectual sickness.

— Robert Barron

I spend a lot more time than any person should have to talking with lawyers and thinking about intellectual property issues.

— Linus Torvalds

If you try to give people knowledge, and you haven't trained them in character, based on faith, they will become intellectual reprobates.

— Doug Phillips

Intellectual development was paramount to my father, of course, but he was hardly a geek. He was a man who happened to…

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

We will see that the greatest problem confronting civilization is not merely religious extremism: rather, it is the larger set of cultural…

— Sam Harris

I was recently appointed by President Obama to the President's Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities. I am so excited that the…

— Lauren Potter

The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only…

— Soren Kierkegaard

I was actually already doing my Ph.D. in neuroscience when September 11 happened. 'The End Of Faith' is essentially what September 11…

— Sam Harris

To me the special quality (which of course many men have as well) is first of all a sharpness, a clarityIt cuts…

— Tenzin Palmo

There are different cinema traditions in France, Spain and other European countries. There's a much stronger intellectual tradition: cinema is seen in…

— Ken Loach

One of the great intellectual failures of the American intelligence community, and especially the counterterrorism community, is to assume if someone hasn't…

— Michael Scheuer

Obviously, despite hard work and heroic efforts, many dreams don't come true. But if we don't dare to dream and then throw…

— Tom Peters

Worship is a powerful witness to unbelievers-if God's presence is felt, and if the message is understandable. God's presence must be sensed…

— Rick Warren

Fantasy consists in a morbid fascination with unrealities, which secretly transforms itself into a desire to make them real. Imagination is a…

— Roger Scruton

The lure in art collecting and its financial rewards, not counting for a moment its aesthetic, cultural and intellectual rewards, is like…

— Steve Martin

The theory that the biosphere was created without evolution, a few thousand years ago, is ruled out by overwhelming scientific evidence. To…

— David Deutsch

Power operates only destructively, bent always on forcing every manifestation of life into the straitjacket of its laws. Its intellectual form of…

— Rudolf Rocker

One of the challenges in writing the script Call Me by Your Name was that I had to find something concrete for…

— James Ivory

I don’t really know what “intellectual” means, but if it means you’ve got a desire to learn, you’ve got a desire to…

— Pete Doherty

The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.

— Novalis

“I regard the discovery of one’s favorite author as the most critical event in one’s intellectual development.”

— Lin Yutang

No important change in ethics was ever accomplished without an internal chage in our intellectual emphasis, loyalties, affections, and convictions.

— Aldo Leopold

Policy-making, decision-taking, and control: These are the three functions of management that have intellectual content.

— Anthony Stafford Beer

In any given society the authority of man over man runs in inverse proportion to the intellectual development of that society.

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.

— Caroline Kennedy

Someone like Jean-Luc Godard is for me intellectual counterfeit money when compared to a good kung fu film.

— Werner Herzog

Nokia's industry-leading intellectual property has the potential to create significant value for our licensees and our shareholders.

— Rajeev Suri

Zen has nothing to teach us in the way of intellectual analysis; nor has it any set doctrines which are imposed on…

— D.T. Suzuki

Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of historians; much more than that it does…

— Anonymous

One thing I don't want around me is a military intellectual. I don't have to worry about you on that score.

— Henry A. Kissinger

Mystery is an intellectual process... But suspense is essentially an emotional process.

— Alfred Hitchcock

The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time.

— Stephen King

Music contains a whole gamut of experience, from sensuous elements to ultimate intellectual harmonies.

— George Santayana

I was a sort of New York intellectual when I was 16. I wanted to dress like Annie Hall when I was 18.

— Rebecca Hall

All propaganda must be popular and its intellectual level must be adjusted to the most limited intelligence among those it is addressed…

— Adolf Hitler