Unfortunately, nature seems unaware of our intellectual need for convenience and unity, and very often takes delight in complication and diversity. — Santiago Ramon y Cajal Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in the fact that a writer may label himself as being intellectual or anti-intellectual. l'm really interested in the… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
My favorite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence'. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime. — Imre Lakatos Copy Share Image
Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng possess a level of intellectual self-confidence usually found among undergraduates. They always have. — Nick Boles Copy Share Image
'Money' is never about money. It's an intellectual exchange for something that you believe will make you feel better. — Debbie Millman Copy Share Image
Lotte Lenya was all emotion. She wasn't anything but emotion. She was not an intellectual. — John Hurt Copy Share Image
Good politicians need not be intellectuals, but they should have intellectual lives. — Gary Gutting Copy Share Image
The flowering of human society depends on two factors: the intellectual power of outstanding men to conceive sound social and economic theories,… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
There was no intellectual movement in American history called social Darwinism. The people who were supposedly the leaders of the social Darwinist… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
Liberalism provided me with an intellectual satisfaction that I never found in fundamentalism. I became so enamored of the insights of liberalism… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Intellectual beauty is sufficient unto itself, and only for it rather than for the future good of humanity does the scholar condemn… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal Copy Share Image
By exposing yourself to risk, you're exposing yourself to heavy-duty learning, which gets you on all levels. It becomes a very emotional… — Gifford Pinchot Copy Share Image
People have been saying that Amar Singh is more of an intellectual than a grassroot politician but we will prove them wrong.… — Jaya Prada Copy Share Image
One would think that by the second decade of the twenty-first century, the intellectual poverty of technocracy and the primacy of politics… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
I could go to Oxford, I could immerse myself in a new culture, I could develop my intellectual capital, I could expand… — Myron Rolle Copy Share Image
Some are dinning in our ears that we Americans, and moderns generally, are intellectual dwarfs compared with the ancients, or eventhe Elizabethan… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“If you can think of times in your life that you've treated people with extraordinary decency and love, with pure uninterested concern,… — David Lipsky Copy Share Image
Painting is something that takes place among the colors, and one has to leave them alone completely, so that they can settle… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“He began to think, here, of local intellectuals such as the pulavar and of his friends in the Readers’ Circle, as keys… — Mark P. Whitaker Copy Share Image
What is enthralling and illuminating about The Metaphysical Club is its portraits of individuals and their milieus. Menand is wonderfully deft at… — George Scialabba Copy Share Image
People always think that loyalty is laudable. People are always saying that we must remain faithful to tradition, to family, to our… — Bernard-Henri Levy Copy Share Image
We continually forget that the sphere of morals is the sphere of action, that speculation in regard to morality is but observation… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
“You don't need to be deep in order to be called intellectual. You need to create connectivity with the people by using… — Alon Calinao Dy Copy Share Image
We are critical and skeptical. But when we are absorbed in a story, we drop our intellectual guard. — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
People may talk about intellectual teaching, but what we principally want is the moral teaching. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected. — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
Ambition is the subtlest beast of the intellectual and moral field. It is wonderfully adroit in concealing itself from its owner. — John Adams Copy Share Image
I don't want to live in a world where there's no privacy, and therefore no room for intellectual exploration and creativity. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
A high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
All of us were slowly losing that intellectual light that allows you always to tell the similar from the identical, the metaphorical… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Style supposes the reunion and the exercise of all the intellectual faculties. The style is the man. — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Copy Share Image
Ninety percent of the difficulty in your intellectual life would never have happened if you just had better taste. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The only way to fix Puerto Rico is with brain game, to bring the intellectual and human capital there - in a… — Brock Pierce Copy Share Image
“Trees are still more soothing than steel and cement, despite the lack of a purely intellectual argument as to why this should… — Douglas E. Richards Copy Share Image
Reason cannot remain a bare intellectual faculty; it must become a faculty of judgment dealing with the question of values. — Margaret Benson Copy Share Image
Out of the nursery into the college and back into the nursery; there’s your intellectual pattern for the past five centuries or… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Humankind doesn’t have a genuine intellectual memory. They don’t need the Truth. They don’t want to know the Truth.” — Robert Neil Fleischer Copy Share Image
You never observe a great intellectual movement in Europe in which the Jews do NOT greatly participate. The first Jesuits were Jews. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
