Intellectual Quotes · Page 35

The Communism of the English intellectual is something explicable enough. It is the patriotism of the deracinated.

— George Orwell

The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is…

— Robertson Davies

You have to become that infinite formless creation, which is life, to know it. It cannot be known in an intellectual sense.…

— Frederick Lenz

Hackers are breaking the systems for profit. Before, it was about intellectual curiosity and pursuit of knowledge and thrill, and now hacking…

— Kevin Mitnick

My dad was a regular dad. At home, he wasn't Bonzo the animal. He was a very intellectual, quiet chap - not…

— Jason Bonham

no subject of study is more important than reading…all other intellectual powers depend on it.

— Jacques Barzun

Plain intellectual thinking is the peak of ignorance because all that you will know is to play with a few aspects and…

— Jaggi Vasudev

Death people who are still alive at this hour, must resurrect and ascend to the intellectual heaven where there is no ignorance.

— Anonymous

I think my very earliest stories were all intellectual exercises and I was writing from experiences I had never had about characters…

— George R. R. Martin

A person may be a moron or an imbecile if he is lacking in judgment; but with good judgment he can never…

— Alfred Binet

Nietzsche says that as soon as he had read a single page of Schopenhauer, he knew he would read every page of…

— Georg Brandes

I think such an inquiry will reveal a rather different picture: namely, it will reveal a very strong tendency for the intellectuals…

— Noam Chomsky

A history-stopping archetype is being released into the skies of this planet, and if we are not careful it will halt all…

— Terence McKenna

Scientists are convinced that they, as scientists, possess a number of very admirable human qualities, such as accuracy, observation, reasoning power, intellectual…

— Anthony Standen

Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering…

— Jacques Barzun

People believe that if you're concerned about the clothes you're wearing and the larger aspects of your appearance, that it's anti-intellectual. I…

— Tim Gunn

The physical lot of surviving workers had notably improved, with unemployment insurance, social security, and the new health services, while their children's…

— Lewis Mumford

It seems to me that making escapist films might be a better service to people than making intellectual ones and making films…

— Woody Allen

For a woman ... to explore and express the fullness of her sexuality, her ambitions, her emotional and intellectual capacities, her social…

— Louise J. Kaplan

Novelists are perhaps the last people in the world to be entrusted with opinions. The nature of a novel is that it…

— Anthony Burgess

First, Know well that Intellectuality is not intelligence. To be intellectual is to be phony; it is a pretending intelligence. It is…

— Rajneesh

It smells terrible in here.' Well, what do you expect? The human body, when confined, produces certain odors which we tend to…

— John Kennedy Toole

There is in the chemist a form of thought by which all ideas become visible in the mind as strains of an…

— Justus von Liebig

Do I have a problem with Larry Ellison buying Sun? No, that's part of the capitalist system. As soon as we go…

— Scott McNealy

I don't really know where my ideas come from. I start with a time and a place. That's what I need to…

— Jennifer Egan

The appointment [in Harvard] gave me economic safety, writerly support, and intellectual self-respectplus eight months to myself every year.

— Seamus Heaney

I don't want to escape via intellectual ruses – I want affirmations via passionate embraces & you can't have life unless you live it.

— Marsden Hartley

The intellect is a cold thing and a merely intellectual idea will never stimulate thought in the same manner that a spiritual…

— Ernest Holmes

Doing the right thing is not the problem. Knowing what the right thing is, that's the challenge.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Love has three kinds of origin, namely: suffering, friendship and love. A human love has a corporal and intellectual origin.

— Boethius

Chess is something more than a game. It is an intellectual diversion which has certain artistic qualities and many scientific elements.

— Jose Raul Capablanca

“There is no such thing as unnecessary beauty, whether it be physical or intellectual.”

— Stuart Rojstaczer

Our loss put six feet under ground Is measured by the magnolia's root; Our gain's the intellectual sound Of death's feet round…

— Allen Tate

Women, on average, are less knowledgeable than men. They're less intellectual than men.

— Amy Wax

In a seriously intended intellectual emancipation a person's mute passions and cravings also hope to find their advantage.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Reading is not simply an intellectual pursuit but an emotional and spiritual one. It lights the candle in the hurricane lamp of…

— Anna Quindlen

Compassion is not feeling sorry for others. It's not soft. It requires an intellectual effort.

— Karen Armstrong

[E]mpathy - not squishy self-serving conflict avoidance - is the hand-maiden, not the enemy, of reason and intellectual inquiry.

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Intellectuals are good at seeing the big picture. But they are not so good at process.

— Michael Ignatieff

An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.

— Aldous Huxley