Intellectual Quotes · Page 34

Hayek became in his later years the dominant intellectual influence of the last quarter of the twentieth century.

— Robert Skidelsky, Baron Skidelsky

I'm amazed at the courage of the journalists on the frontlines in Iraq, but we need intellectual courage in our community.

— Hamza Yusuf

Corporately contrived art product replaces inspired intellectual property with ineffectual poperty.

— Vanna Bonta

Intellectual activity is perhaps the greatest pleasure of life; chess is one of the forms of intellectual activity.

— Siegbert Tarrasch

To my mind, Guernica is the most important online intellectual and literary journal in America today.

— Claire Messud

All teaching and all intellectual learning come about from already existing knowledge.

— Aristotle

Women don't require motives that are comprehensible to my intellectual processes.

— Rex Stout

Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties.

— James Anthony Froude

The enjoyment we get from something is powerfully influenced by what we think that thing really is. This is true for intellectual…

— Paul Bloom

The taboos that constitute a man's intellectual stature, often sedimented experiences and unarticulated insights, always operate against inner impulses that he has…

— Theodor Adorno

When the heart is touched by direct experience, the mind may be challenged to change. Personal involvement with innocent suffering, with the…

— Peter Hans Kolvenbach

I'm a Christian, but I'm not a puritan. I believe in pleasure and orgiastic pleasure has its place, intellectual pleasure has its…

— Cornel West

I went to live on a kibbutz, and I'd idealized the world of collective, agrarian work, where everyone was equal, everyone contributed,…

— Tony Judt

In this denial of the right to participate in government, not merely the degradation of woman and the perpetuation of a great…

— Frederick Douglass

We need a childlike trust that God is good... ultimately we are OK. That is a simple, beautiful pure thing that can…

— Rob Bell

The book is second only to the wheel as the best piece of technology human beings have ever invented. A book symbolises…

— Philip Pullman

Well, my contention is that the political system of this country is so designed criminally to prevent this, that if the black…

— Malcolm X

Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and…

— John F. Kennedy

Whoever would not remain in complete ignorance of the resources which cause him to act; whoever would seize, at a single philosophical…

— Franz Joseph Gall

War, like all other situations of danger and of change, calls forth the exertion of admirable intellectual qualities and great virtues, and…

— William C. Bryant

The agnostic, the skeptic, is neurotic, but this does not imply a false philosophy; it implies the discovery of facts to which…

— Anonymous

That is my job as an intellectual, as an extension of my vocation: to engage in a serious reckoning with the present…

— Michael Eric Dyson

Mathematics is not arithmetic. Though mathematics may have arisen from the practices of counting and measuring it really deals with logical reasoning…

— Christopher Zeeman

The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing…

— Berenice Abbott

Our founders built a new order atop specifically European intellectual traditions.

— Ross Douthat

There are many non-intellectual countries; Australia is one of the few anti-intellectual ones.

— George Mikes

Economic prosperity is not so much a material problem; it is, first of all, an intellectual, spiritual, and moral problem.

— Ludwig von Mises

There is nothing wrong with intellectual differences flowing from freedom of thought as long as such differences remain confined to intellectual debates.

— Pervez Musharraf

Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always…

— Madeleine L'Engle

What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.

— Thomas Mann

Piensa el sentimiento, siente el pensamiento." (roughly translated, "Think about the emotional and feel the intellectual")

— Miguel de Unamuno

To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Mental slavery is mental death, and every man who has given up his intellectual freedom is the living coffin of his dead…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

“Maybe that was the sign of a true intellectual--someone who could accept the weird.”

— Ronald De Feo

“I have at all times written my writings with my whole heart and soul: I do not know what purely intellectual problems…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Republicans have always tolerated greater intellectual diversity than Democrats.

— Michael J. Knowles

What I'm advocating is an intellectual revolution - it's a different mindset concerning the ethical benchmarks by which we live.

— Tariq Ramadan

Communism and socialism, programs for intellectual control over society ... fascism, a program for the social control of intellect.

— Robert M. Pirsig

There is a lot lacking on the intellectual side and on the values side when being an actor.

— Natalie Portman

The information revolution has changed wealth. Intellectual capital is far more important than money.

— Walter Wriston