When I first began acting, I assumed an intellectual responsibility attached to my profession, which I had accepted for a long time.… — Christopher Reeve Copy Share Image
Well, my contention is that the political system of this country is so designed criminally to prevent this, that if the black… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I don't want people running around saying Gwen Brooks's work is intellectual. That makes people think instantly about obscurity. It shouldn't have… — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
The rare scholars who are nomads-by-choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines. — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
It's rare that I'm not at work on some sort of craft project. I've often enthused about the need to make things;… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
I can't think why fancy religions should have such a ghastly effect on one's grammar. It's a kind of intellectual rot that… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
The stricter standards and independent, often conclusive, evidence in the physical sciences cannot be generalized to intellectual activity as a whole, even… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The intellectual is always showing off, the lover is always getting lost. The intellectual runs away. afraid of drowning; the whole business… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Modern economics is sick. Economics has increasingly become an intellectual game played for its own sake and not for its practical consequences… — Mark Blaug Copy Share Image
“Kupata maarifa kutokana na shida ni jambo la kawaida, lakini kupata maarifa bila shida ni hekima.” — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris. — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
We have entered a new phase of culture - we may call it the Age of the Cinema - in which the… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
There are many non-intellectual countries; Australia is one of the few anti-intellectual ones. — George Mikes Copy Share Image
The intellectual life may be kept clean and healthful, if man will live the life of nature, and not import into his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To the indefinite, uncertain mind of the American radical the most contradictory ideas and methods are possible. The result is a sad… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
In my view, there was a long period in which analytical philosophy had little to say about ethics. I think their intellectual… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
In business, there's a constant focus on developing strategies, reviewing executive performance against those strategies each year, engaging with opposing or different… — Jeff Raikes Copy Share Image
Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Even before I had children I wanted the intensity of my life to get greater. I wanted to feel things more strongly.… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
To set aside one’s prejudices, one’s present needs, and one’s own self interest in making a decision as a director for a… — Mervyn King Copy Share Image
If this really is true, then greed really isn't good, after all. It really isn't the way to maximize the best possible… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Humans, the supremely social mammals, are ethical and intellectual sponges. We unconsciously absorb, for good or ill, the influences that surround us. — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
Tad Homer-Dixon is a rare kind of public intellectual, who combines real expertise with a commitment to communicate to the widest possible… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
