Intellectual Quotes · Page 5

I'm quite intellectual. I read a lot and I'm very politically aware.

— Leo Sayer

I have no nationality - the best possible status for an intellectual.

— Emile M. Cioran

“Colin smirks, "The only things I have to do are stay queer and die.”

— Alvin Orloff

Intellectual labor is a common technique for the avoidance of thinking.

— Peter Straub

I am certainly not an intellectual relativist, nor a moral relativist.

— Edward Tufte

We were these arty punks from Hollywood. I considered myself an intellectual.

— Flea

I'm not an attorney or a person who does intellectual property .

— Manning Marable

I like to think of myself as fairly intellectual.

— Powers Boothe

Nothing is finer for the purposes of great productions than a very gradual ripening of the intellectual powers.

— John Keats

I am not an intellectual. An intellectual is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso, whereas I just say…

— Sebastian Horsley

A culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men.

— Ayn Rand

There's this amazing dialogue between me and my fans. There's an interest in the sharing of intellectual ideas based around art.

— Matty Healy

From the moral as from the intellectual point of view, the child is born neither good nor bad but master of his…

— Jean Piaget

Any teacher can study books, but books do not necessarily bring wisdom, nor that human insight essential to consummate teaching skills.

— Bliss Perry

I think the more stability a person has, the more they can follow esoteric or intellectual pursuits.

— Elaine Equi

Observation and experiment for gathering material, induction and deduction for elaborating it: these are are only good intellectual tools.

— Francis Bacon

Walk through Santa Monica and try to find somebody who knows a young man or woman who's in this war. Here, war…

— Paul Haggis

We are blessed with a faith, which calls into action the whole intellectual man; which prescribes a reasonable service; which challenges the…

— Edward Everett

The intellectual is engage-he is pledged, committed, enlisted. What everyone else is willing to admit, namely that ideas and abstractions are of…

— Richard Hofstadter

Every man on the planet should do some physical work: he should help in the bread-labor of mankind. He should also do…

— Edwin Markham

In terms of intellectual property, so many of the job creators I know are start-ups. In the IP setting, we can meaningfully…

— Tom Perez

If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. [You…

— Jack Lemmon

It's perfectly clear that the millions of babies, who are crying at this very moment, want unanimously to be next to a…

— Jean Liedloff

The best painting comes out of compulsions and obsessions, out of deep love or hate, out of intellectual or emotional involvement with…

— Edward Betts

I love the competitive aspect of it [business]. It's like playing chess. Why do people play chess? Knowing the realm of moves?…

— Mark Cuban

It [the Holocaust] is something like a religion… The Intellectual Adventure is that we are reversing this entire trend within the space…

— David Irving

Human intellectual progress, such as it has been, results from our long struggle to see things 'as they are,' or in the…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

The peasants have seen the future - Greece and France - and concluded that it does not work. Hence their opposition to…

— Charles Krauthammer

I don't like comparisons with football. Baseball is an entirely different game. You can watch a tight, well-played football game,but it isn't…

— Bowie Kuhn

It's kind of interesting and sick that the intellectual culture called the 1960s, "time of troubles," a dangerous period in which a…

— Noam Chomsky

The provincial intellectual is doomed to arguing at low level... there is still no Australian literary world, not in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide.…

— Clive James

Classical music is at odds with contemporary culture precisely because of its insistence on the tension between the bodily and intellectual, the…

— Julian Johnson

Atheism is an exercise in intellectual contempt.

— Ravi Zacharias

“Intelligence is a way of thinking, not a choice of words.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Perhaps he did not know himself - like all these intellectual cynics...”

— Arthur Koestler

Intellectuals are people who go to study things other people do naturally.

— Bill Cosby

But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins.

— Oscar Wilde

I never wanted to be a public intellectual or a talking head.

— J. D. Vance

Fear is what prevents the flowering of the mind.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Literature is a comprehensive essence of the intellectual life of a nation.

— William Shakespeare