Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling… — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
It's very lonely being a prominent black intellectual at an institution where you're the only prominent black intellectual. That was the model… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
I am unaware of his plans but I shall never stop believing in them because I cannot fathom them and I prefer… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I'm someone who can provide an intellectual framework, but I can't tell people who are trying to sell Product X how to… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“Intellectuals that approach me, only serve to feeding my intellectualism. Imaginists that approach me, only serve to enhancing my Imaginism. It's impossible… — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
As for the accusation of intellectual pride, surely the boot is on the other foot. Atheists don't claim to know anything with… — Barbara Smoker Copy Share Image
Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business - everything. I think you could have an intellectual ability, but if… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
Studying the universe engages us in something bigger than ourselves. Science tries to describe, in terms we can only grasp intuitively, things… — Guy Consolmagno Copy Share Image
Great God! What have I turned into? What right have you people to clutter up my life, steal my time, probe my… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Tis impossible to judge with much Præcision of the true Motives and Qualities of human Actions, or of the Propriety of Rules… — John Adams Copy Share Image
And rural nature is full of the same quickening spirit-it is, in fact, the exhaustless mine from which the poet and the… — Thomas Cole Copy Share Image
I was starting to wonder if I was ready to be a writer, not someone who won prizes, got published and was… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
The largest cultural menace in America is the conformity of the intellectual cliques which, in education as well as the arts, are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I can't deny that I was an intellectual prostitute along the way many, many times in college. I can remember one examination… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
Am I missing something because of my lack of education? Being an intellectual - I'm not. So I hire him as a… — Lawrence Schiller Copy Share Image
When you meet anyone in the flesh you realize immediately that he is a human being and not a sort of caricature… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I never abandoned Yves Saint Laurent. I used to have lunch with him twice a week. I also saw him every Saturday.… — Pierre Berge Copy Share Image
The more we can do to support and promulgate the intellectual traditions of the Abrahamic faiths - of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
Princeton ignited my intellectual curiosity and introduced me to a new social world. It... challenged me on the most fundamental levels imaginable.… — Bill Bradley Copy Share Image
Immanuel Kant lived with knowledge as with his lawfully wedded wife, slept with it in the same intellectual bed for forty years… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Darwin was not afraid to look deeply into the void. His bold view can be seen as either noble and pessimistic or… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
Harvard is first and foremost a university and not a consulting operation, and our job here is to teach and to research… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And that must end us, that must be our cure: To be no more. Sad cure! For who would lose, Though full… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Aping urbanity, Oozing with vanity, Plump as a manatee, Faking humanity, Intellectual inanity, Journalistic calamity, Fox Noise insanity, You're a profanity, Hannity — John Cleese Copy Share Image
Humans are addicted to the hope for a final reckoning, but intellectual humility requires that we resist the temptation to assume that… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
The fact is, every thinker, every philosopher, the moment he is forced to abandon his one-sided intellectual occupation by practical necessity, immediately… — Ernst Mach Copy Share Image
I'm really trying to dredge up what one might call intellectual and moral material. For example, when do you realize that you… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I collected men with interesting names. I already knew a Socrates. He was tall and ugly and intellectual and the son of… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
The typical WW1 soldier was not an intellectual like Ernst Jünger or Wilfred Owen, but was a peasant draftee from Galicia or… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
Custodial education does not have as its objective the education of youth but rather social control over them. It suppresses rather than… — John Conyers Copy Share Image
Whoever takes it upon himself to write an honest intellectual history of twentieth-century Europe will need a strong stomach. But he will… — Mark Lilla Copy Share Image
The most glorious vision of the intellectual life is still that which is loosely called humanist: the idea of a mind committed… — Irving Howe Copy Share Image
It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time - for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I should have wished to possess the intellectual equilibrium that characterizes you and permits you to achieve without fail the desired end...… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
There are no ideas in the Republican Party right now in the Congress. They're the party of no. They desperately need some… — Howard Dean Copy Share Image
The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
When I was at the Group for Musical Research, with this idea of discovering electronic music, I quickly realized that that it… — Jean-Michel Jarre Copy Share Image
The feminist notion that the whole of human history has been nothing but a vast intricate conspiracy by men to enslave their… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
My childhood in Arlington, Va., a middle class suburb of Washington, was uneventful. Ours was a very intellectual family, and we were… — David Gross Copy Share Image
We can't all work in the inner city. And, I don't even think that it is incumbent upon an African-American intellectual to… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
