Intellectual Quotes · Page 14

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

— Peter Straub

Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.

— Ambrose Bierce

I like to think of myself as fairly intellectual.

— Powers Boothe

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

— Manning Marable

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

Atheism is an exercise in intellectual contempt.

— Ravi Zacharias

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Consistency in opinion is the slow poison of intellectual life, the destroyer of its vividness and energy.

— Humphry Davy

If folk is the music of the common people and not the intellectual elite, then that's what rock is.

— Michael Penn

Among intellectuals who consider themselves 'scientific,' the phrase 'the nature of man' is apt to have the effect of a red flag…

— Murray Rothbard

Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development.

— Oscar Wilde

To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of eternal things; to knowledge, the rational knowledge of temporal things.

— Saint Augustine

We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields.

— Alan Turing

Intellectual discourse and investigation is admittedly great fun but only truly meaningful when conducted in the service of others.

— Sergio De La Pava

Am I an intellectual? I don't think so. Less than people sometimes think, I have to say. But more than some others…

— Isabelle Huppert

The progress of dynamic ideals will not be eternally blocked. Through general, moral and intellectual advancement... shall the latent aspiration of justice…

— Abraham Isaac Kook

With all due respect, many in the entertainment industry are deep into mind-altering substance abuse, and when one's logic and intellectual calculating…

— Ted Nugent

All religious systems enslave the mind. Certain things are demanded-certain things must be believed-certain things must be done-and the man who becomes…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

I'm not really all that familiar with comic book culture. Not because I'm such a high brow intellectual and bloody European. But…

— Christoph Waltz

What then is the intellectual advantage of civilization over primitive savagery? It is not necessarily that each civilized man has more knowledge…

— Thomas Sowell

When a new project comes along, I want to know that the experience is going to be challenging and exciting. Part of…

— Tom Hiddleston

Writers are interested in a diverse range of subjects, but prefer to move from field to field to satisfy intellectual curiosity, rather…

— Robert W. Bly

There were 100 intellectual reasons not to pursue 'Wicked.' There were times where it was very challenging, where the mind said, 'This…

— Marc Platt

It seems to me that making escapist films might be a better service to people than making intellectual ones and making films…

— Woody Allen

That education should be regulated by law and should be an affair of state is not to be denied, but what should…

— Aristotle

Films today show only a dream world and have lost touch with the way people really are... In this country, people die…

— John Cassavetes

There is in the chemist a form of thought by which all ideas become visible in the mind as strains of an…

— Justus von Liebig

Do I have a problem with Larry Ellison buying Sun? No, that's part of the capitalist system. As soon as we go…

— Scott McNealy

It smells terrible in here.' Well, what do you expect? The human body, when confined, produces certain odors which we tend to…

— John Kennedy Toole

The profound political changes we need in order to heal our planet will not come about through fragmented problem solving or intellectual…

— Petra Kelly

Because my graduate academic training at law school was not one that included most of the intellectual traditions I find useful for…

— Dean Spade

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

— Arthur Koestler

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

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Bill Cosby

I always used to put my right boot on first, and then obviously my right sock.

— Barry Venison

It makes me sad there is still some intellectual snobbery out there.

— Steve Easterbrook

I'm not known for my intellectual range and tricks have been played on me.

— William Sanderson

Religions, themselves, are (intellectual) blasphemies.

— Kedar Joshi

Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.

— G. M. Trevelyan