An intellectual challenge presents itself? I am in bliss. Instantly, it brings forth the notion of triumph. — Philippe Petit Copy Share Image
Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Let me by the child in that story and declare that the Emperor is naked-or that America is culturally bankrupt. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I do not ... reject the use of statistics in medicine, but I condemn not trying to get beyond them and believing… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
When you're watching Psycho, there' s that moment when you have a visceral reaction to watching someone being stabbed. And then you… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
However much you study, you cannot know without action. A donkey laden with books is neither an intellectual nor a wise man.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Text is linear; it is black and white; it doesn't zoom around the page in 3-D; it isn't intelligent by itself; in… — Andrea diSessa Copy Share Image
England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality. In left-wing circles it is always felt… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
To answer brutality with brutality is to admit one's moral and intellectual bankruptcy. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Every man naturally desires knowledge; but what good is knowledge without fear of God? Indeed a humble rustic who serves God is… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
Most intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the same. — Wilhelm Reich 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
Man is an intellectual animal, and therefore an everlasting contradiction to himself. His senses centre in himself, his ideas reach to the… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Persecution in intellectual countries produces a superficial conformity, but also underneath an intense, incessant, implacable doubt. — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
Since the branch of philosophy on which we are at present engaged differs from the others in not being a subject of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I dislike frontiers, political or intellectual, and I find that ignoring them is an essential catalyst for creative thought. Ideas should flow… — Michael Atiyah Copy Share Image
There are certain artworks that I respond to, artists that I respond to. It's an intellectual reaction but it's also a biological… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
True Sufism is resistance: spiritual, intellectual, social, cultural, political and economic resistance. It cannot be, for sure, supporting dictators. — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
Policy wonks are often dazzled by the simplicity and clarity of an intellectual theory. — Nick Boles Copy Share Image
Genius must have talent as its complement and implement, just as in like manner imagination must have fancy. In short, the higher… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Poetry exists partly to undermine the certainties of an accepted intellectual system, by opening a fissure of awareness at which the reality… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
