Intellectual Quotes · Page 40

Boston was a moral and intellectual nursery, always busy applying first principles to trifles.

— George Santayana

A social democratic party without deep roots in the working class movement would quickly fade into an unrepresentative intellectual sect

— Roy Jenkins

Precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity as to those mysterious powers assumed by others.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Japan is a well-educated, technological society. It is a free society, protects intellectual property.

— John Roos

I was surprised. I'd always associated belief in heaven with, frankly, a kind of intellectual disengagement. But Gus wasn't dumb.

— John Green

As a man may be eating all day, and for want of digestion is never nourished, so these endless readers may cram…

— Isaac Watts

“He is only fifteen! Does she really think he is prepared for marriage, especially with his intellectual range of a teacup?”

— Erica Sehyun Song

The questions of today's average young person, who is the product of America's intellectual bastions, have been virtually unaddressed by the church.

— Ravi Zacharias

I believed in the Catholic position, the Catholic view of ethics and aesthetics, for a long time. But I wanted something not…

— Joyce Kilmer

“In the most secret heart of every intellectual ... there lies hidden ... the hope of power, the desire to bring his…

— Lionel Trilling

My feeling of the whole genre, of the terror tale, is this: The best thing that you can do for the readers…

— Stephen King

The attainment of truth is then the function of both the intellectual parts of the soul. Therefore their respective virtues are those…

— Aristotle

I thought I might find the real me in Oxford. Civil rights made me accept being a black intellectual. There was no…

— Stuart Hall

I think the universities have co-opted the intellectual, by and large. But there is an emerging intellectual set coming out of Washington…

— Richard Rodriguez

To spend this particular year reading essays to Dennis Robertson as one's supervisor, and, simultaneously, enjoying membership of the group round Keynes…

— James Meade

To cease to wonder is to fall plumb-down from the childlike to the commonplace—the most undivine of all moods intellectual. Our nature…

— George MacDonald

There are certain artworks that I respond to, artists that I respond to. It's an intellectual reaction but it's also a biological…

— Jeff Koons

But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony…

— Oscar Wilde

I think it's time we ask ourselves if we still know the freedoms that were intended for us by the Founding Fathers...…

— Ronald Reagan

In this country, intellectual cowardice is the worst enemy a writer or journalist has to face ... Unpopular ideas can be silenced,…

— George Orwell

A tendency to resume the same mode of action at stated times is peculiarly the characteristic of the nervous system; and on…

— George Combe

“One with higher 'revolutions' of intellect has a higher power of understanding. He will understand before explanation becomes necessary. Laborers do not…

— Dada Bhagwan

Men's bodies are our women's works of art. Given to us power of control, we will never carelessly throw them in to…

— Olive Schreiner

True myths may serve for thousands of years as an inexhaustible source of intellectual speculation, religious joy, ethical inquiry, and artistic renewal.…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Ideas without precedent are generally looked upon with disfavor and men are shocked if their conceptions of an orderly world challenged.

— J Harlen Bretz

I try to be feminine, yet intellectual and smart at the same time. You don't see enough of that

— Portia de Rossi

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

— Charles Bukowski

Nothing so offends the doctrinaire intellectual as our ability to achieve the momentous in a matter-of-fact way, unblessed by words.

— Eric Hoffer

Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal.

— Sarah Bernhardt

“She knows that she’s probably better than him on the intellectual stuff—though not a lot—but he blows her away on the retail.”

— Daniel Halper

Believe me, the intellectual revolution is going on, and that has to come first before you see the political changes. That's where…

— Ron Paul

Reduce intellectual and emotional noise until you arrive at the silence of yourself and listen to it.

— Richard Brautigan

Intellectual slavery, of whatever nature it may be, will always have as a natural result both political and social slavery.

— Mikhail Bakunin

My mother was a first-grade teacher, so I credit her with this lifelong intellectual curiosity I have, and love of reading and…

— Chesley Sullenberger

Stealing music is not right, and I can understand people being very upset about their intellectual property being stolen.

— Steve Jobs

I do like designing clothes that are - not exactly lofty but intellectual in their sexiness.

— Giles Deacon

I'm a bit of a deconstructionist myself. It's kind of exciting - the last intellectual thrill left. Like sawing through the branch…

— David Lodge

He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.

— Iris Murdoch

I never felt that I had the natural intellectual gifts that the people who graduate first in their class from Harvard Law…

— Megyn Kelly

I think, therefore I am' is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.

— Milan Kundera