Intellectual Quotes · Page 72

We had a certain kind of really big prestige among, I suppose not just intellectual folk, but a sort of nice middle…

— Adolph Green

I want to read a lot of books and not live lazily. I want to become intellectual.

— Minzy

Human beings are very unbalanced and prone to go off on tangents. In every area of life- with too great emphasis on…

— Edith Schaeffer

Be wary of the arrogant intellectual who comments from the stands without having played on the field.

— Ray Dalio

The best learners... often make the worst teachers. They are, in a very real sense, perceptually challenged. They cannot imagine what it…

— Stephen Brookfield

I am still happy to be close to the city, [to be] connected to the intellectual source in Ferndorf. In this area,…

— Volker Bertelmann

Intellectual development was paramount to my father, of course, but he was hardly a geek. He was a man who happened to…

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

Intellectual liberty [is] the right to think right and the right to think wrong. Thought is the means by which we endeavor…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

If a preacher is cultured, gentle, earnest, intellectual, and broadly tolerant, the sheep of God run after him. He, of course, speaks…

— C. I. Scofield

At first the, only subconsciously apprehended, approaching confluences of complex events make themselves known intuitively within the intellectual weather. Then comes a…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

In exceptional boardrooms, the intellectual rigor generated by a challenging question is both an accepted norm and a precursor to reaching informed…

— Punit Renjen

“[The public school system is] usually a twelve year sentence of mind control. Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism and compromise, destroying…

— Walter Karp

Well, I do think, particularly the way I work, the better images occur when you're moving to the fringes of your own…

— Jerry Uelsmann

'The Big Lebowski' gave me my first false sense of intellectual superiority.

— Josh Gondelman

The Library is an open sanctuary. It is devoted to individual intellectual inquiry and contemplation. Its function is to provide free access…

— Robert G. Vosper

Children should not be coddled in their intellectual training any more than in their physical; and though the studies should be made…

— Arthur Lynch

This revolution, the information revolution, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy.

— Steve Jobs

Faith means making a virtue out of not thinking. It's nothing to brag about. And those who preach faith, and enable and…

— Bill Maher

I've always been - as a teacher, as graduate student, as a student, and I think, really, as a child - I've…

— David Ferry

LSD, yeah, the big parade – everybody's doin' it now. Take LSD, then you are a poet, an intellectual. What a sick…

— Charles Bukowski

He (Intellectuals) claims that label to compensate for his own inadequacies. It's as old as that saying: tell me what you boast…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I am passionate about everything in my life--first and foremost, passionate about ideas. And that's a dangerous person to be in this…

— Anonymous

“The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability.…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

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

— Elaine Equi

The high intellectual value of images, however, lies in the fact that they usually, and perhaps always, fit more than one actual…

— Susanne Katherina Langer