Intellectual Quotes · Page 48

Every man who expresses an honest thought is a soldier in the army of intellectual liberty.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.

— Manuel Puig

My parents were gigantic influences on me. I had a deep hunger to impress my father, who was a professor and an…

— Siri Hustvedt

To fear the examination of any proposition apears to me an intellectual and a moral palsy that will ever hinder the firm…

— George Eliot

“Intellectual death is endemic in areas where people are not prepared to gain new information for development. Learning is the intervention!”

— Israelmore Ayivor

I wish I knew as much about anything today as I knew about everything when I was twenty.

— Bill Ayers

Society is not merely a select body of spiritual or intellectual persons, but a great organism composed of all kinds of members,…

— Robert Hugh Benson

Freud "interpreted" dreams by treating them as intellectual riddles whose details, once processed through free association, exposed hidden wishes.

— Rodger Kamenetz

Communism and fascism or nazism, although poles apart in their intellectual content, are similar in this, that both have emotional appeal to…

— James A.C. Brown

We will soon create intelligences greater than our own ... When this happens, human history will have reached a kind of singularity,…

— Vernor Vinge

My heart and mind were created to work in harmony together. Never has an individual been called upon to commit intellectual suicide…

— Josh McDowell

The aspirations of most people--security, pleasure, leisure, meaningful work, creative and intellectual pursuits--are to be supported. These desires and dreams are not…

— Irena Klepfisz

Globalisation, technological change, and the move to flexible labour markets has channelled more and more income to rentiers - those owning financial,…

— Guy Standing

One can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested…

— Anonymous

There's no greater tragedy than an equal intensity, in the same soul or the same man, of the intellectual sentiment and the…

— Fernando Pessoa

The proper method for hastening the decay of error, is not, by brute force, or by regulation which is one of the…

— William Godwin

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

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

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

— Dada Bhagwan

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

There is not one person who can fulfill all your needs. You may choose a partner who is your intellectual equal, and…

— Esther Perel

I think what drives scientists is this tremendous intellectual adventure - pushing the boundaries of knowledge, walking down a track that nobody…

— Suzanne Cory

The practice of celibacy alone was opening me up to a deeper sense of the way the mind-body connection works. I saw…

— Noah Levine

In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side-by-side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand.

— Gerald Holton

“The moment a realm of intellectual activity is codifiable, it ceases to be uniquely human.”

— Anonymous

I hate intellectual discussion. When I hear the words 'phenomenology' or 'structuralism', I reach for my buck knife.

— Edward Abbey

We as a music ­community have our own issues about advocacy, copyright, intellectual ­property, being paid fairly for the work that we…

— Neil Portnow

I know some real intellectual people who might laugh, very close friends who might laugh when I'm said to be an intellectual.

— Isabelle Huppert

Intellectual freedom is the only guarantee of a scientific - democratic approach to politics, economic development, and culture.

— Andrei Sakharov

It befuddles me why I was offered so many intense, intellectual movies when I don't take myself seriously.

— Konkona Sen Sharma

If an actor tries to understand too much, he will act in an intellectual and unnatural manner.

— Michelangelo Antonioni

The best students are ones that are willing to take intellectual risks and challenge conventional thinking.

— Oren Etzioni

The 'We Have Overcome' generation has run out of intellectual creativity but refuses to leave the political stage.

— Manning Marable

I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

— Alice James

Intellectuals (in the standard sense of the term, not [ Edward] Said's prescriptive sense) are the people who write history.

— Noam Chomsky

And amongst us one, Who most has suffer'd, takes dejectedly His seat upon the intellectual throne.

— Matthew Arnold

In the end, leadership is not intellectual or cognitive. Leadership is emotional.

— Judith M Bardwick

If you have insight, you use your inner eye, your inner ear, to pierce to the heart of things, and have no…

— Anonymous

For each of us there is a set limit to our intellectual powers which we cannot pass.

— Rene Descartes