Intellectual Quotes · Page 21

The scientific study of labor economics provided the opportunity for me to unite theory with evidence my lifetime intellectual passion.

— James Heckman

Cablegate is 3,000 volumes of material. It is the greatest intellectual treasure to have entered into the public record in modern times.

— Julian Assange

Music contains a whole gamut of experience, from sensuous elements to ultimate intellectual harmonies.

— George Santayana

All propaganda must be popular and its intellectual level must be adjusted to the most limited intelligence among those it is addressed…

— Adolf Hitler

I was a sort of New York intellectual when I was 16. I wanted to dress like Annie Hall when I was 18.

— Rebecca Hall

The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time.

— Stephen King

Mystery is an intellectual process... But suspense is essentially an emotional process.

— Alfred Hitchcock

Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of historians; much more than that it does…

— Anonymous

I don't want people running around saying Gwen Brooks's work is intellectual. That makes people think instantly about obscurity. It shouldn't have…

— Gwendolyn Brooks

When you're on screen with Mads, there's some real fireworks because your character is his intellectual equal. In a way, maybe your…

— Laurence Fishburne

“Most board meetings amount to little more than intellectual masturbation. They are ideas that cause thrills, chills, and satisfaction, but there is…

— Steve Maraboli

Labeling a child's mind as diseased-whether with autism, intellectual disabilities, or transgenderism-may reflect the discomfort that mind gives parents more than any…

— Andrew Solomon

There's a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics, especially within the sphere of…

— Harold Pinter

I have long been aware that when an independent intellectual stands up to an autocratic state, step one toward freedom is often…

— Liu Xia

The progress from infancy to boyhood is imperceptible. In that long dawn of the mind we take but little heed. The years…

— Bryan Procter

The deepest insult which can be shown to a human being is to associate it solely with material functions, with no cognizance…

— Mary C. Ames

There was a transition going on - Baghdad being the intellectual capital of the world where major advances were made in agriculture…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

The capacity for the accomplishment of religious virtuosos the "intellectual sacrifice" is the decisive characteristic of the positively religious man. That this…

— Max Weber

There exists in the world today, and has existed for thousands of years, a body of enlightened humans united in what might…

— Manly Hall

Few of us have been so exceptionally unfortunate as not to find, in our own age, some experienced friend who has helped…

— Philip Gilbert Hamerton

“[...] intellectualism (as understood by Fascists) divocers thought from action, science from life, the brain from the heart, and theory from practice.…

— Giovanni Gentile

“One conceivable way to discriminate between a scientific intellectual and a literary intellectual is by considering that a scientific intellectual can usually…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probable—namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts, the parental…

— Charles Darwin

Intellectual methods-study and reason-are essential to our progress toward eternal life, but they are not sufficient. They can prepare the way. They…

— Dallin H. Oaks

One thing I don't want around me is a military intellectual. I don't have to worry about you on that score.

— Henry A. Kissinger

Sell your intellectual property based on a track record of success and innovation.

— Tahl Raz

It is the opposite of ignorance—it is intellectual honesty: to be willing to accept reality and to call things what they are…

— Todd Burpo

I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual.

— Rahul Dravid

Can I reject everything my brain experienced? Is intellectual understanding any understanding at all?

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

The convictions that leaders have formed before reaching high office are the intellectual capital they will consume as long as they continue…

— Henry A. Kissinger

The painter is not an intellectual if, when he has painted a nude woman, he gives us the idea that she is…

— Odilon Redon

You know, albums are a funny thing. They're not like an intellectual decision. It's a collection of your kind of musings.

— Glen Hansard

Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of…

— Hu Shih

May not men earn their bread by intellectual labor? No, the needs of the body must be supplied by the body.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Lecturers should remember that the capacity of the mind to absorb is limited to what the seat can endure.

— Evan Esar

“Communism...muat of necessity be a saddening process for anyone who has ever tasted the intellectual pleasures of the world we live in.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

No leader, however great a personality he may be, is as important to a people as their own intellectual development.

— George William Russell

“A man must be quite intelligent in order to accept that a woman is his intellectual equal.”

— Dora Musielak

Within the confines of the lecture hall, no other virtue exists but plain intellectual integrity.

— Max Weber

The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.

— Noam Chomsky