Intellectual Quotes · Page 31

I've always made my decisions based on two factors: intellectual analysis and my gut. And when they meet, that's a go from…

— Michael Ovitz

I treat everyone equally whether you are an intellectual, a layman or an auto driver.

— Joy Mathew

Sometimes we have to be cat, sometimes rat, but eventually we evolve to become more intellectual.

— Jatin Tanwer

When you get a critique, people think you're criticizing them but it's really an intellectual conversation. You can't get emotionally attached.

— Kalup Linzy

Because British actors hold Shakespeare in such great reverence, we tend to go for the word, which tends to make things very…

— Geraldine James

Painting fulfills a need to be non-intellectual. There are times when we have to get our brains out in our fingers.

— Ray Bradbury

The few bright meteors in man's intellectual horizon could well be matched by women, were she allowed to occupy the same elevated…

— Ernestine Rose

The object of basic education is the physical, intellectual and moral development of children through the medium of handicraft.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can…

— Nicolaus Copernicus

The difference between a pessimistic and an optimistic mind is of such controlling importance in regard to every intellectual function, and especially…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

As a child I wanted to be a grown-up. I wanted to know everything - not that I like to talk about…

— Karl Lagerfeld

My basic approach to interviewing is to ask the basic questions that might even sound naive, or not intellectual. Sometimes when you…

— Brian Lamb

Faith in the hereafter is as necessary for the intellectual as the moral character; and to the man of letters, as well…

— Robert Southey

I recognise that the whole issue of downloading and intellectual property rights is not an easy one, but on the whole, I'm…

— Lee Ranaldo

I had come to believe that I was not as clever as some other kids who were my friends. And yet I…

— Irving Sandler

I am not a politician. I have often been approached in this regard, but I have always declined these sorts of offers.…

— Tariq Ramadan

“We may say, in a broad way, that Greek philosophy down to Aristotle expresses the mentality appropriate to the City State; that…

— Bertrand Russell

What is charm, it is not a moral quality, it is not intellectual for no man by much thinking is able to…

— Flora Thompson

Well, we have to realize the truth about the person who is a hip-hop insider. Most of these people are not really…

— MC Hammer

In Buddhism, both learning and practice are extremely important, and they must go hand in hand. Without knowledge, just to rely on…

— Dalai Lama

The books I made, most of those books were made in the '80s or early '90s. I was reacting emotionally at that…

— Crispin Glover

In our fast-food nation, we tend to think that the intellectual life, like everything else, can be had pre-chewed and in bulk…

— Norah Vincent

I found that I faced a highly complex situation, and that I couldnt hope to change it until I had armed myself…

— Anwar Sadat

It's refreshing, honestly, to be able to have more intellectual conversations about sex and the meaning of sex, and intimacy and what…

— Lizzy Caplan

Mathematics is an interesting intellectual sport but it should not be allowed to stand in the way of obtaining sensible information about…

— Richard Hamming

“My favourite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence. [ Sources and Acknowledgements : Chapter 19]”

— Arthur C. Clarke

Whether the person should then be called "an intellectual" seems to reduce the issue to a question of terminology.

— Noam Chomsky

Intellectual curiosity drove Einstein to some of the world's most important discoveries.

— Gordon Gee

We live in what may be the most anti-intellectual period in the history of Western civilization.

— R. C. Sproul

The intellectual advancement of man depends on how often he can exchange an old superstition for a new truth.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The intellectual is an individual with a specific public role in society that cannot be reduced simply to . . a faceless professional.

— Noam Chomsky

I just thought: Oh goodness, you can wear nice clothes and get your hair done and still be a feminist and a…

— Jacqueline Rose

The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value.

— Oscar Wilde

An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.

— Aldous Huxley

We represent the only efficient moral, intellectual and political force capable of saving human civilization.

— Lyndon LaRouche

I don't think German films have to be heavy or intellectual the way they sometimes used to be.

— Til Schweiger

Either the human being must suffer and struggle as the price of a more searching vision, or his gaze must be shallow…

— Thomas de Quincey

“Who am I? I am that. Nothing can change that. Words, intellect and concepts can never reach that. It is the perfect…

— Amit Ray

My intellectual development was retarded, as a result of which I began to wonder about space and time only when I had…

— Albert Einstein

Humans, the supremely social mammals, are ethical and intellectual sponges. We unconsciously absorb, for good or ill, the influences that surround us.

— George Monbiot