Intellectual Quotes · Page 42

There will always be those little minds who, out of vanity or intellectual display, will attempt to destroy faith in the very…

— Ezra Taft Benson

To seek "causes" of poverty in this way is to enter an intellectual dead end because poverty has no causes. Only prosperity…

— Jane Jacobs

My father and mother treated us children as intellectual equals, thus greatly bolstering our self-confidence and our interest in ideas of all…

— David Gross

“I am an intellectual. This does not mean I am intelligent, but that ideas are more important to me than people.”

— George Sheehan

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

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

— Alanis Morissette

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

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

The best conversation is rare. Society seems to have agreed to treat fictions as realities, and realities as fictions; and the simple…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The influence of prayer on the human mind and body is as demonstrable as that of secreting glands. Its results can be…

— Alexis Carrel

To me, the idea of heaven would give you certain pleasures, certain joys - but it's very important to have an intellectual…

— Alice Sebold

Intellectual knowledge exists in and of the brain. Because the brain is part of the body, which must one day expire, this…

— Laozi

Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent…

— Georges Bataille

I try to understand place on a deeper level than just the physical or environmental aspects. It includes cultural and intellectual forces,…

— Antoine Predock

I certainly do have this feeling of affection for the absolute sense of intellectual freedom that exists as a live nerve, a…

— Norman Mailer

My parents are professors; they're intellectual. I spent a lot of time reading books. To me, everyone always looks like they do…

— Shonda Rhimes

Do you like my working persona?" Saiman asked softly. "An aesthetically pleasing combination of intelligence and elegance, wouldn't you say?" Aren't we…

— Ilona Andrews

If you make a habit of sincere prayer, your life will be very noticeably and profoundly altered. Prayer stamps with its indelible…

— Alexis Carrel

Antonio Gramsci said that social reformers should have pessimism of the intellect and optimism of the will. This means that one must…

— Andrew Solomon

Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last; and perhaps always predominates in proportion to the strength…

— Samuel Johnson

One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural, and it was a lesson…

— James D. Watson

In academic life, false ideas are merely false and useless ones can be fun to play with. In political life, false ideas…

— Michael Ignatieff

There is... in our day, a powerful antidote to nonsense, which hardly existed in earlier times - I mean science. Science cannot…

— Bertrand Russell

Having confidence in a free society is to focus on the process of discovery in the marketplace of values rather than to…

— Ken Schoolland

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

— Abhijit Naskar

“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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

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

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

— David Ben-Gurion

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

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

— Roxane Gay

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

— Georgia Toffolo

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

— Ayn Rand

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

— Peter R. Mansoor