Intellectual Quotes · Page 32

Faith must become more than a verbal proclamation or an intellectual assent. True faith must be acted out.

— Millard Fuller

I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

— Nathanael Emmons

I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty.

— Claude Levi-Strauss

In a distant age and climate, the tragic scene of the death of Hosein will awaken the sympathy of the coldest reader.

— Edward Gibbon

My message is very simple and universal, not very intellectual, but humane. Just love each other and live.

— Alton Ellis

It's really funny seeing all these media depictions of me as an intellectual because I'm a connoisseur of low culture.

— James Holzhauer

“It is a courage which can find the solution to every problem, not the intelligence.”

— Amit Kalantri

A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual.

— Anthony Burgess

If creators of Christian culture hope to produce work that will bear good fruit, we must draw our life from the true…

— Michael O'Brien

I see myself as, first and above all, a teacher of history; next, a writer of European history; next, a commentator on…

— Tony Judt

The Internet has been a blessing and a curse. The curse we know: A lot of people appropriating your intellectual property without…

— Gloria Estefan

For me, it was like this: pronounced antipathy to conversing about matters of practical life, the future, dates, politics. You are fixated…

— Walter Benjamin

I am an artist, you understand? For me, a picture is like poetry. When you make art, this is not coming from…

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

The hallmark of the Renaissance was its holistic quality as all fields of art, engineering, science and culture shared the same exciting…

— Joel Garreau

Everyone has a right to an opinion. I can arrive in England and express my opinion. If criticism were ferocious and without…

— Jose Mourinho

If a solution fails to appear ... and yet we feel success is just around the corner, try resting for a while.…

— Santiago Ramon y Cajal

A theoretical physicist can spend his entire lifetime missing the intellectual challenge of experimental work, experiencing none of the thrills and dangers…

— Leon M. Lederman

Only the [Catholic] Church stood squarely across the path of Hitler’s campaign for suppressing truth. I never had any special interest in…

— Albert Einstein

Progress is slow partly from mere intellectual inertia. In a subject where there is no agreed procedure for knocking out errors, doctrines…

— Joan Robinson

Helping children at a level of genuine intellectual inquiry takes imagination on the part of the adult. Even more, it takes the…

— Dorothy H Cohen

As for solitude, I cannot understand how certain people seek to lay claim to intellectual stature, nobility of soul and strength of…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To repress rebellion is to maintain the status quo, a condition which binds the mortal creature in a state of intellectual or…

— Manly Hall

In New York I'd go to the movies three or four times a week. Here I've upped it to six or seven,…

— David Sedaris

I am also very excited by the way in which we can see Paul wrestling not only with his Jewish world and…

— N. T. Wright

Literary commercialism is lowering the intellectual standard to accommodate the purse and to meet a frivolous demand for amusement instead of for…

— Mary Baker Eddy

I would call an intellectual one whose instrument of work - his mind - is also his major source of pleasure; a…

— Marya Mannes

Great art is always a balancing act. But all art has both - an emotional content and an intellectual content.

— George L. Carlson

A mind truly cultivated never feels that the intellectual process is complete until it can reproduce in some media the thing which…

— Ida Tarbell

My whole career I've been interested by the distinction between an emotional and an intellectual response to an artwork.

— Janet Echelman

There is far too much of the feeding-bottle in education and young people ought to be supplied with good intellectual food and…

— Thomas Huxley

A relativist is an individual who doesn't know the difference between an adjective and an adverb.

— Bill Gaede

They'll remember you if you're the best reader in class-or if you throw up at lunch.

— Cynthia Lewis

If the person you are trying to diagnose politically is some sort of intellectual, the chances are two to one he is…

— Vance Packard

The intellectual is, quite simply, a human being who has a pencil in his or her hand when reading a book.

— George Steiner

The universe was a vast machine yesterday, it is a hologram today. Who knows what intellectual rattle we'll be shaking tomorrow.

— R. D. Laing

“Any individual who possesses higher intellect than the general population, is meant to be at the forefront of service to humanity.”

— Abhijit Naskar

When public and private sectors combine intellectual and other resources, more can be achieved

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

When I start writing songs and it turns into an overly belabored intellectual process, I just throw it out.

— Alanis Morissette

Scientific literacy is an intellectual vaccine against the claims of charlatans who would exploit ignorance.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I love this idea of trying to create that intellectual eroticism. That was what I was working toward all along.

— Lily King