Intellectual Quotes · Page 38

I'm old-fashioned, a storyteller. I'm not an analyst and I'm not an intellectual.

— John Irving

This ceremony and the intellectual aura associated with the Nobel Prizes have grown from the wisdom of a practical chemist who wrote…

— Stanford Moore

The 'free-floating intellectual' may occupy himself with problems because of their inherent interest and importance, perhaps to little effect.

— Noam Chomsky

The game of chess is the most fascinating and intellectual pastime which the wisdom of antiquity has bequeathed to us.

— Howard Staunton

Intellectual prowess has its limitations. Thus, do not limit the scope of your learning to the realm of the intellect.

— Mata Amritanandamayi

The audience is a very curious animal. It is shrewd rather than intelligent. Its mental capacity is less than that of its…

— W. Somerset Maugham

In the end, there's something of the puritan work ethic about me that roles really must sustain me on an intellectual level.

— Damian Lewis

The thing which Reagan did, which was great, was he won the people. He marginalized the media. And that's what you need,…

— Greg Gutfeld

Notwithstanding the fact that the most innovative and progressive space we've seen - the Internet - has been the place where intellectual…

— Lawrence Lessig

Power operates only destructively, bent always on forcing every manifestation of life into the straitjacket of its laws. Its intellectual form of…

— Rudolf Rocker

There were different heroes with different images. There was Mike Tyson, the animal, there was Evander Holyfield, the devout, the priest. And…

— Lennox Lewis

For original ideas to come about, you have to let them percolate under the level of consciousness in a place where we…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

As a writer, I must be free to say what is in all the diversity I can command. I regret the distorting…

— Jane Rule

You get stared at the whole time. I first noticed that when I was about 13. I was very shy. Being considered…

— Carole Bouquet

.Women's Studies can amount simply to compensatory history; too often they fail to challenge the intellectual and political structures that must be…

— Adrienne Rich

We believe in cures; we're a quick-fix country, and we drive forward, and we eat up what we have extremely fast in…

— David Means

The great intellectual tradition that comes down to us from the past was never interrupted or lost through such trifles as the…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The world state must begin; it can only begin, as a propaganda cult, or as a group of propagandist cults, to which…

— H. G. Wells

This was solidarity. The debutante having her toenails pedicured - the housewife buying carrots from a pushcart - the bookkeeper who had…

— Ayn Rand

Everybody knows what they were kind of drawn towards or what they're gifted at and it's more of courage and looking at…

— Robert Greene

Religions, of course, have their own demanding intellectual traditions, as Jesuits and Talmudic scholars might attest… But, in its less rigorous, popular…

— Wendy Kaminer

The artist must operate on the assumption that the public consists in the highest order of individual; that he is civilized, cultured,…

— Ben Shahn

The church in all ages and among all peoples has been the consistent enemy of the human race. Everywhere and at all…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

A necessary part of our intelligence is on the line as the oral tradition becomes less and less important. There was a…

— Wes Jackson

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

— Ayn Rand

I must feel the fire of my soul so my intellectual blues can set others on fire.

— Cornel West

[Marx's theories] gave me a political and intellectual justification for what I believed in a way that nothing else did.

— Neil Kinnock

To accomplish artistic work, of any individual worth, nature must be seen through the medium of the artist's intellectual emotions.

— Gertrude Kasebier

I like clothes that stimulate the senses, fashion that is both exquisite and intellectual.

— Elizabeth Heyert

The major public goals in my life are intellectual goals. There are various philosophical things that I want to work on and…

— Robert Nozick

There's nothing so passionate as a vested interest disguised as an intellectual conviction.

— Sean O'Casey

One of the things that characterizes good intellectual work is a certain self-importance

— Whitfield Diffie

True genius can be identified by the fact that its expression changes the world into something it has never been before.

— David Gerrold

My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

An intellectual challenge presents itself? I am in bliss. Instantly, it brings forth the notion of triumph.

— Philippe Petit

The true traveller is the one urged to move about for physical, aesthetic, intellectual as well as spiritual reasons.

— Ella Maillart

Collective Intelligence (CI) is the capacity of human collectives to engage in intellectual cooperation in order to create, innovate, and invent.

— Pierre Levy

It's hard to get into Newsweek because, as more of our former intellectual magazines take on a pop focus, if there's no…

— Branford Marsalis

I want to read a lot of books and not live lazily. I want to become intellectual.

— Minzy

'The Book of Air and Shadows' was born during a conference with an intellectual property lawyer on a particular afternoon in November…

— Michael Gruber