Intellectual Quotes · Page 36

My dad was more, "Let's play chess. Read a book, you're stupid." He's more the intellectual type.

— Michelle Rodriguez

All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called 'Facts'. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.

— Thomas Hobbes

Life is essentially a series of events to be lived through rather than intellectual riddles to be played with and solved.

— George Arthur Buttrick

The Swedish engineer who invented the zip fastener made a greater intellectual leap than many scientists do in a lifetime.

— Martin Rees

[On being asked how many Mrs. Thatchers there were:] Oh, three at least. There is the intellectual one, the intuitive one and…

— Margaret Thatcher

Ever since Kant divorced reason from reality, his intellectual descendants have been diligently widening the breach.

— Ayn Rand

Intellectuals who live in Hungary, or who wish to work or lecture there, are extremely circumspect in their criticism.

— Hari Kunzru

If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay - in solid cash - the arts would perish with their starving…

— Aldous Huxley

If you have an idea, you have to move on it, to make a gesture. Drawing is an immediate way of articulating…

— Jeff Koons

Some films are pure entertainment of course, but what interests me and what I want to do are projects that really make…

— Audrey Tautou

Language grows out of life, out of its needs and experiences...Language and knowledge are indissolubly connected; they are interdependent. Good work in…

— Anne Sullivan Macy

“Intellectuals are a pretty unique species all by themselves, given to advocating things out of sheer brazenness that they could not themselves…

— Matthew Scully

When I decided to see what Nascar was all about in 2005, it was an intellectual project, the same reason I went…

— S.E. Cupp

It is better for the intellectual not to talk all the time. To begin with, it would exhaust him, and, above all,…

— Albert Camus

But nothing ever put 'Hoppy' in the shade. No one could fail to recognize in the little figure... the authentic gold of…

— Joseph Needham

Motherhood gives you access to a range of different intellectual experiences and ways of seeing the world, which, in a way, makes…

— Alissa Quart

Films today show only a dream world and have lost touch with the way people really are... In this country, people die…

— John Cassavetes

That education should be regulated by law and should be an affair of state is not to be denied, but what should…

— Aristotle

Therefore, when a person refuses to come to Christ it is never just because of a lack of evidence or because of…

— William Lane Craig

The intellectual is always showing off, the lover is always getting lost. The intellectual runs away. afraid of drowning; the whole business…

— Rumi

Because my graduate academic training at law school was not one that included most of the intellectual traditions I find useful for…

— Dean Spade

The profound political changes we need in order to heal our planet will not come about through fragmented problem solving or intellectual…

— Petra Kelly

I'm happy to respect authority when it's genuine authority, based on moral or intellectual or even technical superiority. I'm eager to follow…

— Edward Abbey

“The intellectual is an individual endowed with a faculty for representing, embodying, articulating a message, a view, an attitude, philosophy or opinion…

— Edward W. Said

Examples of selling of ideas are portrayed in consulting or paid advice, as the pricing of intellectual property is market driven.

— Chuck Martin

“I am not looking for a "perfect" man. Only one who matches me on an emotional, spiritual, sexual, and intellectual level.”

— Amanda Mosher

I came from a very intellectual neighborhood. When we played cowboys and Indians as kids, I had to be Gandhi.

— Robert Frost

I wish to note that intellectual property theft by a government represents the very essence of organized crime.

— Howard Berman

I'm not intellectual at all as a designer. Whatever I'm into at the moment is usually what becomes the collection.

— Peter Dundas

Christianity is not a purely intellectual, internal faith. It can only be lived in community.

— Philip Yancey

To be a really good historian is perhaps the rarest of intellectual distinctions.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

I try to keep a balance between conceptional or intellectual comprehension and emotional understanding.

— Anonymous

Mere mental, that is, intellectual labour, is for the soul and has its own satisfaction.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“His mother had often told Lock that he was much too polite to ever be a true intellectual.”

— Shelly Laurenston

I knew there were no such things as death cooties. Unfortunately, that's an intellectual fact. And death cooties are an emotional reality.

— Janet Evanovich

Anyone who doesn't think that hip-hop is an intellectual genre, I think that assumption is rooted in racism.

— Doechii

The mediocrity of everything in the great world of today is simply appalling. We live in intellectual slums.

— George Santayana

“An intellectual is some one who isn't exactly distinguished by his intellect. He claims that label to compensates for his inadequacies.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“Down South we've always believed that if a man had intellectual abilities, they would show through on their own without his having…

— Herman E. Talmadge

My parents were reasoned and deep thinkers. My dad is an intellectual and a literary man.

— Steve Zahn