Intellectual Quotes · Page 43

“Intellect is the virtue of ignoring one’s emotions’ attempt to contaminate one’s opinions.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The secret of life is to be found in life itself, in the full organic, intellectual and spiritual activities of our body.

— Alexis Carrel

Where questions of religion are concerned, people are guilty of every possible sort of dishonesty and intellectual misdemeanor.

— Sigmund Freud

“. But, strangely enough, there is no record that they ever offered prizes for intellectual prowess.”

— Sōseki Natsume

The whole world of thought lay unexplored before me, - a world of which I had already caught large and tempting glimpses...

— Lucy Larcom

I'm just being myself. I'm not a very complex guy; I'm not a very studious, crazy intellectual guy. I'm just a guy.

— Mac DeMarco

The Philadelphia Museum of Art is a house of artistic and intellectual prostitution

— Albert C. Barnes

To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. This is the sport, the luxury, special to the intellectual man.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have…

— Anonymous

There's nothing like the discovery of an unknown work by a great thinker to set the intellectual community atwitter and cause academics…

— Woody Allen

Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as…

— Susan Sontag

A great thing would be done if all these God-visions could embrace and cast themselves into each other; but intellectual dogma and…

— Sri Aurobindo

Since only an individual man can possess rights, the expression "individual rights"? is a redundancy (which one has to use for purposes…

— Ayn Rand

It is wonderful to work in an environment with a lot of smart people. It challenges you to think and work on…

— Marissa Mayer

Before I had a kid, I was off in some kind of cosmic state all of the time, and thinking about the…

— Larkin Grimm

I began to realize that an intuitive understanding and consciousness was more significant than abstract thinking and intellectual logical analysis. Intuition is…

— Steve Jobs

I haven't written a novel or something that long, because I really am improvising all along and the story is growing new…

— George Saunders

Any person of any philosophic persuasion who sits on a hot stove will verify without any intellectual argument whatsoever that he is…

— Robert M. Pirsig

As with most of my work, I started from the abstract, from research, building an intellectual model that slowly became internalized when…

— Lauren Groff

Girlhood ... is the intellectual phase of a woman's life, that time when, unencumbered by societal expectations or hormonal rages, one may…

— Alice Kahn

France has not only built a bureaucratic barrier against American culture, it has constructed a notorious intellectual case against it as well.…

— Tyler Cowen

It started becoming clear to me how one might have views about the nature of mind and of knowledge which are empirically…

— Hilary Kornblith

Our purpose is to be able to measure the intellectual capacity of a child who is brought to us in order to…

— Alfred Binet

I soon began to sense a fundamental perceptual difficulty among male scholars (and some female ones) for which 'sexism' is too facile…

— Adrienne Rich

“Being a fool is a billion times better than being blinded by the illusion of intellect.”

— Abhijit Naskar

The intellectual power, through words and things, Went sounding on a dim and perilous way!

— William Wordsworth

I approached the bulk of my schoolwork as a chore rather than an intellectual adventure.

— Steven Chu

Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic…

— Robert Bork

Kitsch offers instantaneous emotional gratification without intellectual effort, without the requirement of distance, wihtout sublimation.

— Walter Benjamin

Gingrich is the "foremost intellectual" in the Republican party like Gene Simmons is the foremost intellectual in "Kiss".

— Bill Maher

Amherst was pivotal in my broad intellectual development; MIT in my development as a professional economist.

— Joseph Stiglitz

In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.

— John Stuart Mill

What I love about French gardens is the combination of formal elegance and intellectual questioning.

— Monty Don

I've always been interested in intellectual history and in psychology, and anxiety is obviously something that's been a big part of my…

— Scott Stossel

To answer brutality with brutality is to admit one's moral and intellectual bankruptcy.

— Mahatma Gandhi

It is in the intellectual and emotional response, the conscious and subconscious associations of the artist, that the potential power of painting…

— Thomas S. Buechner

Srebrenica's not simply another reminder of man's inhumanity to man, but how intelligent people can always come up with intelligent reasons to…

— Scott Simon

I'm strictly for Stevenson. I don't dig the intellectual bit, but I'm telling you, man, he knows the most.

— Elvis Presley

He is a fool who thinks by force or skill To turn the current of a woman's will.

— Samuel Tuke

[Antonio] Gramsci's words and actions explain their assessment, though I think we should refrain from using the term "model intellectual" for him…

— Noam Chomsky