Intellectual Quotes · Page 57

One of the things that made me suffer no regret when I was called away from the cramped intellectual jail of atheism…

— John C. Wright

I believe that the 21st century economy is an economy of people, not of factories. The intellectual factor has become increasingly important…

— Vladimir Putin

You know how much I admire Che Guevara. In fact, I believe that the man was not only an intellectual but also…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Against my will, I became a witness to the most terrible defeat of reason and to the most savage triumph of brutality…

— Stefan Zweig

Turning 50 is a little bit of a 'taking stock' moment. I feel probably a little dumber. I don't think I'm as…

— Flea

“You are welcome to your intellectual pastimes and books and art and newspapers; welcome, too, to your bars and your whisky that…

— Knut Hamsun

I do not believe that the present flowering of science is due in the least to a real appreciation of the beauty…

— Derek Barton

Yes, I am positive that one of the great curatives of our evils, our maladies, social, moral, and intellectual, would be a…

— Charles Wagner

When the nazis came to power, I looked to the universities that prided themselves upon their intellectual freedom, and they failed me.…

— Albert Einstein

Now I have demonstrated, that the convolutions of the brain are nothing but the peripheric expansion of the bundles of which it…

— Franz Joseph Gall

I started by saying that one of the most fateful errors of our age is the belief that the problem of production…

— E. F. Schumacher

It doesn't dawn on this depraved bourgeois world that this is positively a sin against all reason; that it is criminal lunacy…

— Adolf Hitler

To say! To know how to say! To know how to exist via the written voice and the intellectual image! This is…

— Fernando Pessoa

Our contemporary Western society, in spite of its material, intellectual and political progress, is increasingly less conducive to mental health, and tends…

— Erich Fromm

My approach to violence is that if it's pertinent, if that's the kind of movie you're making, then it has a purposeI…

— Guy Ritchie

Fiction seems to be more effective at changing beliefs than nonfiction, which is designed to persuade through argument and evidence. Studies show…

— Jonathan Gottschall

The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the…

— Camille Paglia

The act of focusing our mightiest intellectual resources on the elusive goal of goto-less programs has helped us get our minds off…

— Anonymous

I was moving among two groups... who had almost ceased to communicate at all, who in intellectual, moral, and psychological climate had…

— C.P. Snow

Even at my biggest, I want to be writing for other artists. Even at my peak - the highest I can be…

— Keri Hilson

A typical mathematician does not actively try to be useful. Individual mathematicians are motivated primarily by a subtle mixture of ambition and…

— Timothy Gowers

I went to work for Catholics United for the Faith, and I basically found myself in the midst of the traditionalist branch…

— Regina Doman

Deafness, though it be total and congenital, imposes no limits on the intellectual development of its subjects, save in the single direction…

— Edward Miner Gallaudet

When words do not enter as factors into a shared situation, either overtly or imaginatively, they operate as pure physical stimuli, not…

— John Dewey

Ruins stood for what was lost, and yet there were beautiful-peaceful, historic, intellectual. Not tragic or regrettable. Lena tried to keep hers…

— Ann Brashares

Past and future monopolize the poet’s sensory and intellectual faculties, detached from the immediate spectacle. These two philtres become utterly clear the…

— Andre Breton

Punk rock really came out of N.Y. as a philosophy before the groups were ever recorded. I had a kind-of intellectual interest…

— Greg Ginn

The meaning ascribed in popular usage to the word 'selfishness' is not merely wrong: it represents a devastating intellectual 'package-deal,' which is…

— Ayn Rand

You need music that is compelling and intellectual, but you also need music that just feels good and you can laugh about…

— Maggie Rogers

Since today's companies are totally dependent on a continuing human membership that produces a superior intellectual output in comparison to the competition,…

— Arie de Geus

Although I was not aware of it at the time, the experience of growing up during the Great Depression was to have…

— Anonymous

Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen…

— John Maynard Keynes

One filmmaker makes films that are deep, intellectual, profound and confrontational. And the other one makes purely vacuous, escapist films. I'm not…

— Woody Allen

It is absurd to talk of one animal being higher than another...we consider those, where the intellectual faculties most developed as the…

— Charles Darwin

Wisdom is the most-sought intellectual degree whose subjects are regularly learned throughout life with an open mind in an open university called…

— Anonymous

Intellectual sodomy, which comes from the refusal to be simple about plain matters, is as gross and abundant today as sexual perversion…

— Edward Dahlberg

The intellectual power, honesty, lucidity, courage, and disinterested love of the truth of the most gifted thinkers of the eighteenth century remain…

— Isaiah Berlin

With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators,…

— Ray Bradbury

The internet is fracturing into a series of huge country-based intranets, in which governments define, in the name of security, what is…

— Misha Glenny

Modern techniques have torn down state frontiers, both economical and intellectual. The growth of means of transport has created a world market…

— Christian Lous Lange