Intellectual Quotes · Page 3

Sometimes it's smart to be scared.

— Cynthia Lewis

Chess is intellectual gymnastics.

— Wilhelm Steinitz

I don't like the intellectual label.

— Noam Chomsky

Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.

— George Meredith

I'm a fake intellectual.

— Adam Brody

He was not so much brain as earwax

— William Shakespeare

I am probably a pseudo-intellectual.

— Craig Ferguson

I'm an intellectual.

— Anonymous

Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice.

— George Gissing

I am a strong believer that intellectual property rights need to be protected.

— Jim Oberweis

You cannot steal somebody's intellectual property. Law and justice protect.

— Bikram Choudhury

Using governmental force to impose a vision on others is intellectual sloth.

— Ken Schoolland

How could anything non-controversial be of intellectual interest to grown-ups?

— Edward Abbey

“The wisdom of thought beyond barriers is life changing.”

— Teresa Lakier

All intellectual improvement arises from leisure.

— Samuel Johnson

The indispensible judicial requisite is intellectual humility.

— Felix Frankfurter

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

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

Anxiety is the essential condition of intellectual and artistic creation and everything that is finest in human history.

— Charles Frankel

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

The goal of intellectual life should be to see and understand what is true, not merely to adhere to a prevailing orthodoxy.

— Jeffrey Tucker

God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.

— Joseph Campbell

We have become convinced that it is better to avoid such symbolic disguisings of the truth in what we tell children and…

— Sigmund Freud

The internet is fracturing into a series of huge country-based intranets, in which governments define, in the name of security, what is…

— Misha Glenny

Modern techniques have torn down state frontiers, both economical and intellectual. The growth of means of transport has created a world market…

— Christian Lous Lange

For more than a thousand years the Bible, collectively taken, has gone hand in hand with civilization science, law; in short, with…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

One filmmaker makes films that are deep, intellectual, profound and confrontational. And the other one makes purely vacuous, escapist films. I'm not…

— Woody Allen

It is absurd to talk of one animal being higher than another...we consider those, where the intellectual faculties most developed as the…

— Charles Darwin

Intellectual sodomy, which comes from the refusal to be simple about plain matters, is as gross and abundant today as sexual perversion…

— Edward Dahlberg

Wisdom is the most-sought intellectual degree whose subjects are regularly learned throughout life with an open mind in an open university called…

— Anonymous

Leibniz endeavored to provide an account of inference and judgment involving the mechanical play of symbols and very little else. The checklists…

— David Berlinski

I actually think that my films are intellectual. I think almost everything I do is intellectual, but I would never say that,…

— John Waters

Let's call this then, only half facetiously, a new patristic, in which the intellectual is charged with the task not only to…

— Anonymous

Great women scholars like Jane Harrison and Gisela Richter were produced by the intellectual discipline of the masculine classical tradition, not the…

— Camille Paglia

It's clearly a crisis of two things: of consciousness and conditioning. We have the technological power, the engineering skills to save our…

— Terence McKenna

One of the greatest challenges facing civilization in the twenty-first century is for human beings to learn to speak about their deepest…

— Sam Harris

By day, or on a cloudless night, a pilot may drink the wine of the gods, but it has an earthly taste;…

— Charles Lindbergh

Intellectual culture seems to separate high art from low art. Low art is horror or pornography or anything that has a physical…

— Chuck Palahniuk