I may turn out an intellectual, but I'll never write anything but mediocre poetry. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
John Connally's conversion to the GOP raised the intellectual level of both parties. — Frank Mankiewicz Copy Share Image
The goal of intellectual life should be to see and understand what is true, not merely to adhere to a prevailing orthodoxy. — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share Image
Anxiety is the essential condition of intellectual and artistic creation and everything that is finest in human history. — Charles Frankel Copy Share Image
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
The means of effective communication are being expropriated from the intellectual worker. — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
It is He who gave to this intellectual nature free-will of such a kind, that if he wishes to forsake God his… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The only way out is spiritual, intellectual, and emotional revolution in which, finally, we learn to experience first hand the interloping connections… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions,… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now it's really bad because everything we've done is de-humanizing… — William Glasser Copy Share Image
It's true that you might be socially isolated because you're reading in the library, at home and so on, but you're intensely… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
When I first came to Washington, what I admired most was that people were just really, really smart with a tremendous amount… — Ezra Klein Copy Share Image
I consider it important, indeed urgently necessary, for intellectual workers to get together, both to protect their own economic status and, also,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Campuses that were once havens of free speech are now patrolled and regulated by thought police. Intellectual dishonesty has become a job… — Michael Barone Copy Share Image
It's a lucky man, a very lucky man, who is committed to what he believes, who has stifled intellectual detachment and can… — Alexander Pushkin Copy Share Image
A mind does not receive truth as a chest receives jewels that are put into it, but as the stomach takes up… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For our intellectual spirit has the power of fire in itself. For no other purpose is it sent by God to the… — Nicholas of Cusa Copy Share Image
I note that warmists are often banging on about the fact that sceptics like Christopher Booker and myself 'only' have arts degrees.… — James Delingpole Copy Share Image
The best aphorisms are… portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling. They furnish the largest amount of intellectual stimulus and… — William Rounseville Alger Copy Share Image
To win in the game of life, we all need both a healthy mind and body. By involving children in the fun… — Digger Phelps Copy Share Image
In many places, above all in the Anglo-Saxon countries, logistics is today considered the only possible form of strict philosophy, because its… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
Oh, talk as we may of beauty as a thing to be chiselled from marble or wrought out on canvas, speculate as… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
The violent, antirationalistic impulse in Western countries is reacting to an intellectual state of affairs in which all thinking has become strategy;… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
Contraction of theological influence has at once been the best measure, and the essential condition of intellectual advance. — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
“It needs to be said that faith-journeys are never simply intellectual exercises.” — Timothy J. Keller Copy Share Image
To know whom to strike is competence; to know how to strike is skill; to know where and when to strike is… — James Roby Copy Share Image
I think if I hadn't become a sociologist, I would have become very anti-intellectual. — Pierre Bourdieu Copy Share Image
Never confuse faith, or belief—of any kind—with something even remotely intellectual. — John Irving Copy Share Image
Pick up a grain a day and add to your heap. You will soon learn, by happy experience, the power of littles… — John Seely Hart Copy Share Image
Professional intellectuals are the voice of a culture and are, therefore, its leaders, its integrators and its bodyguards. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
To the man-in-the-street, who, I'm sorry to say, is a keen observer of life. The word Intellectual suggests straight away. A man… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The worst thing that can happen to an artist is to be subsidized by the state. It leads to an intellectual and… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
It is a part of the intellectual's tragedy that the things he most values about himself and his work are quite unlike… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
The intellectual, the moral, the religious seem to me all naturally bound up and interlinked together in one great and harmonious whole. — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
I find it extraordinary that anyone would have an intellectual conversion to Roman Catholicism. — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
The art of life lies in taking pleasures as they pass, and the keenest pleasures are not intellectual, nor are they always… — Aristippus Copy Share Image
“Quoting Shakespeare doesn't make you an intellectual. It just makes you a fan of Shakespeare.” — Kevin N. Fair Copy Share Image
All honor to the noble women that have devoted earnest lives to the intellectual needs of mankind! — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
