Intellectual Quotes · Page 33

The underlying intellectual argument for seeking to tax economic rents retains its force.

— Mervyn King

“Even in the most favourable periods for cultural development , Intellectuals tend to have uneasy relationship with the status quo.”

— Frank Furedi

I simply claim that what ideas I have, I have a right to express; and that any man who denies that right…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

To Islamize doesn't make sense to me. But to center, but to have intellectual empathy and modesty - all these dimensions are…

— Tariq Ramadan

From passions grow opinions; intellectual laziness lets these harden into convictions.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“excuse my enthusiasm or rather madness, for I am really drunk with intellectual vision whenever I take a pencil or graver into…

— William Blake

I believe that in every person is a kind of circuit which resonates to intellectual discovery-and the idea is to make that…

— Carl Sagan

Public intellectuals are often put in the position of having their words, no matter how off-the-cuff, treated as doctrine.

— Roxane Gay

There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery…

— Joseph Conrad

MindSparks has produced some of the best materials on the market for teaching students how to read and write history with intellectual…

— Sam Wineburg

People have killed only when they could not achieve their aim in other ways there is a broadened strategy, with intellectual weapons…

— Anonymous

Jesus did not get stuck in intellectual arguments with people. He did not go for the intellect; He went for the conscience.…

— Kirk Cameron

There's something I believe wholeheartedly: Cynicism is the true refuge of the pseudo-intellectual, .. Cynicism is easy. Joy is an extremely advanced…

— Craig Ferguson

In politics continental Europe was infantile - horrifying. What America lacked, for all its political stability, was the capacity to enjoy intellectual…

— Saul Bellow

Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and…

— Lewis H. Lapham

The Internet, like all intellectual technologies has a trade off. As we train our brains to use it, as we adapt to…

— Nicholas G. Carr

I began studying human emotions more than twenty years ago. At that time, almost every scientist working in this area was studying…

— Barbara Fredrickson

Comedy is an intellectual affair, and deals chiefly with logic. Tragedy is an emotional affair, and deals chiefly with value. Horace Walpole…

— James Kern Feibleman

After watching the State of the Union address the other night [1994], I'm reminded of the old adage that imitation is the…

— Ronald Reagan

For such is man: a Theological Dogma might be refuted to him a thousand times - provided however, that he had need…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

This is a landmark work in the history of African American studies and American intellectual history. Writing with verve, Jackson brings to…

— Werner Sollors

Think of admitting the details of a single case of the criminal court into our thoughts, to stalk profanely through their very…

— Henry David Thoreau

Profound meditation in solitude and silence frequently exalts the mind above its natural tone, fires the imagination, produces the most refined and…

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

I think that all journalists, specifically print journalists, have a responsibility to educate the public. When you handle a culture's intellectual property,…

— KRS-One

I see by the papers that you have once more stirred that pool of intellectual stagnation, the educational convention.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence.

— David Ben-Gurion

One must treat theory-in-use as both a psychological certainty and an intellectual hypothesis.

— Chris Argyris

“Intellectual growth is when you surpass the barrier of puerility, puzzling people with your dazzling creativity.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

General [James] Mattis has got a really intellectual mindset about how the United States should go about protecting its national security.

— Peter R. Mansoor

Let me be the child in the story and declare that the Emperor is naked — or that America is culturally bankrupt.

— Ayn Rand

It's not all about looks. If someone can sustain a good intellectual 'conversation, I find that very 'attractive.

— Georgia Toffolo

Being bored by clothes shopping feels smart and intellectual: 'Ooh, get me, insufficiently entertained by racks of skinny jeans; my mind is…

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

I am thoroughly sick of pearls. They make one look so plain, so good and so intellectual.

— Oscar Wilde

If it's a cliche to say that intellectual curiosity keeps your mind sharp, your senses alert, and your capabilities cutting-edge, that's because…

— Adena Friedman

Pessimism is carefully cultivated in some intellectual circles, as if it were a precious plant that the human race could not afford…

— Arthur Lynch

The French make two mistakes about me. They think I'm an intellectual because I wear these glasses and they think I'm an…

— Woody Allen

I'm not an ensemble actor, because it's always a lot of ego when you're all together in the scene. It's kind of…

— Udo Kier

The moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers.

— Charles Darwin

For people who know McQueen, there is always an underlying message. It's usually only the intellectual ones who understand what's going on…

— Alexander McQueen

Envy ... is one form of a vice, partly moral, partly intellectual, which consists in seeing things never in themselves but only…

— Bertrand Russell