Intellectual Quotes · Page 40

“Ah, you are one of those intellectual girls who like to be admired for their brains rather than their beauty?”

— Joss Stirling

Dibakar Banerjee comes across as an intellectual filmmaker. That is a deception.

— Payal Rohatgi

Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love.

— Roland Allen

Scepticism is never certain of itself, being less a firm intellectual position than a pose to justify bad behavior.

— Fulton J. Sheen

The scientific study of Nature tends not only to correct and ennoble the intellectual conceptions of man; it serves also to ameliorate…

— John William Draper

In basic research, intellectual rigor and sentimental freedom necessarily alternate.

— Victor Vasarely

The pointless ferocities of intellectual life shock businessmen, who kill only to eat.

— Mason Cooley

Moral cowardice and intellectual corruption are the natural concomitants of unchallenged privilege.

— Noam Chomsky

I believe that we learn by practice... it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from…

— Martha Graham

In disposition the Negro is joyous, flexible, and indolent; while the many nations which compose this race present a singular diversity of…

— Samuel George Morton

I personally think intellectual property is an oxymoron. Physical objects have a completely different natural economy than intellectual goods. It's a tricky…

— John Perry Barlow

I'm a schoolteacher. That's even worse than being an intellectual. Schoolteachers are not only comic, they're often cold and hungry in this…

— Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Men have such a good opinion of themselves, of their mental superiority and intellectual depth; they believe themselves so skilled in discerning…

— Al-Ghazali

In the epic war over Silicon Valley's intellectual property, Bill Gates was on the side of licensing copyright and robust protections for…

— Franklin Foer

I think there is a potential civic culture in Arab countries that can lead to democratic institutions and I think Iraq is…

— Richard Perle

We not only grew up on Be-Bop; Be-Bop raised us. For my generation, Be-Bop came on like a light bulb going flash…

— Ishmael Reed

I spend so much time with the brightest and most talented and well-rounded people. I've had the privilege of having long and…

— Hayden Panettiere

Anarchism is a definite intellectual current in the life of our times, whose adherents advocate the abolition of economic monopolies and of…

— Rudolf Rocker

Politics is a dirty business, a ruse, an ideological cul-de-sac, a vast looter of intellectual and financial resources, a lie that corrupts,…

— Jeffrey Tucker

I have bad days. Sometimes I have a lot of bad days. By and large, I think most people fall into a…

— Maria Popova

The human race, in its intellectual life, is organized like the bees: the masculine soul is a worker, sexually atrophied, and essentially…

— George Santayana

When I talk to anyone or read the writings of anyone who has any axe to grind, I feel that intellectual honesty…

— George Orwell

The intellect searches out the Absolute order of things as they stand in the mind of God, and without the colors of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The four of us enjoyed a most wonderful family atmosphere filled with love and reciprocal devotion. Both parents were highly cultured and…

— Rita Levi-Montalcini

There is a vast difference between intellectual belief and the total conversion that saves the soul.

— Billy Graham

At a certain age some people's minds close up; they live on their intellectual fat.

— William Lyon Phelps

Engineering is not only study of 45 subjects but it is moral studies of intellectual life. Make things as simple as possible..but…

— Albert Einstein

Every word which is used to express a moral or intellectual fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think that a failure of statistical thinking is the major intellectual shortcoming of our universities, journalism and intellectual culture.

— Steven Pinker

Wisdom is corrupted by ambition, even when the quality of the ambition is intellectual. For ambition, even of this quality, is but…

— Henry Taylor

Transparency is not the same as looking straight through a building: it's not just a physical idea, it's also an intellectual one.

— Helmut Jahn

Skepticism . . . is not intellectual only it is moral also, a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul.

— Thomas Carlyle

Loud, stupid and overeating will suffice as long as we also have the funny, the fierce and the intellectual

— Denis Leary

“The intellectual mind judges a book after having read it. A fool’s mind judges a book by its title.”

— Ellen J. Barrier

All of our life is but a mass of small habits - practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual - that bear us irresistibly…

— William James

When the intellectual part of guitar playing overrides the spiritual, you don't get to extreme heights.

— John Frusciante

We cannot pursue a classical and Christian education as a fad. We are not purchasing intellectual hula hoops for the kids.

— Douglas Wilson

The world looks a totally different place after two wins. I can even enjoy watching Blind Date or laugh at Noel's House…

— Gordon Strachan

“A willingness to live with irresolvable questions is a mark of intellectual maturity, not a matter of logical nonsense.”

— Andreas Köstenberger

For most people, attaining the intellectual clarity and emotional detachment that investing requires is tough.

— Guy Spier