Intellectual Quotes · Page 43

Many people in the intellectual elite are very scared of shouting. They insist on very quiet murmurs.

— Alain de Botton

Intellectual food is like any other; it is pleasanter and more beneficial to take it with a spoon than a shovel.

— Mark Twain

Microsoft is a big intellectual roach motel. All the big minds go in, and they don't come out.

— Paul Saffo

By activating an expansive, tolerant, and creative mindset, positive feelings maximize the social, intellectual, and physical benefits that will accrue.

— Martin Seligman

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the…

— Thomas Sowell

My pacifism is not based on any intellectual theory but on a deep antipathy to every form of cruelty and hatred.

— Albert Einstein

The fact is that the culture does not have only positive effects on our intellectual and moral functions but also negative effects.

— Erich Fromm

To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education.

— William Glasser

Love without courage and wisdom is sentimentality, as with the ordinary church member. Courage without love and wisdom is foolhardiness, as with…

— Ammon Hennacy

No one with a body full of aliments can have a luminous soul and other intellectual faculties. It is necessary to care…

— Michael Servetus

I am not indifferent to the appreciation of kind people. [The voters were] extremely kind in naming me the world's top public…

— Fethullah Gulen

I play in a league that's 70 percent black and my peers, guys I come to work with, guys I respect who…

— Chris Long

My wife is a big fan of George Oppen and I got into him. I could have a career like his. It's…

— Stephen Malkmus

By physical liberty I mean the right to do anything which does not interfere with the happiness of another. By intellectual liberty…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

We have three centers: the emotional center, the intellectual center, and the physical body center. Each one of them has its own…

— Erin Gray

INK, n. A villainous compound of tannogallate of iron, gum-arabic, and water, chiefly used to facilitate the infection of idiocy and promote…

— Ambrose Bierce

The intellectual content of religions has always finally adapted itself to scientific and social conditions after they have become clear… For this…

— John Dewey

In the hands of a skillful indoctrinator, the average student not only thinks what the indoctrinator wants him to think . .…

— William F. Buckley, Jr

Norway is much more than just oil. We have a rapidly growing fish sector, a high-tech metal and aluminium industry, abundant access…

— Moddi

As soon as a thought or word becomes a tool, one can dispense with actually 'thinking' it, that is, with going through…

— Max Horkheimer

The chief distinction in the intellectual powers of the two sexes is shown by mans attaining to a higher eminence, in whatever…

— Charles Darwin

The humorist who invented trial by jury played a colossal practical joke upon the world, but since we have the system we…

— Mark Twain

However modest one may be in one's demand for intellectual cleanliness, one cannot help feeling, when coming into contact with the New…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The history of intellectual growth and discovery clearly demonstrates the need for unfettered freedom, the right to think the unthinkable, discuss the…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted.

— Mary Augusta Ward

Healthy relationships should always begin at the spiritual and intellectual levels - the levels of purpose, motivation, interests, dreams,and personality.

— Myles Munroe

From my earliest days, reading was my passion, and at Cambridge, where I studied English literature, my intellectual life deepened and grew.

— Miriam Margolyes

Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other…

— Gerald Brenan

I would not ever try to be a show intellectual, which I was accused of doing a while on ABC. I thought…

— Dick Cavett

It's what I call "mental masturbation", when you engage is some pointless intellectual exercise that has no possible meaning.

— Linus Torvalds

There is nothing that an intellectual less likes to change than his mind, or a politician his policy.

— Theodore Dalrymple

No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is…

— Booker T. Washington

It's been mentioned or suggested that Paradise will not be well studied, because it's about this unimportant intellectual topic, which is religion.

— Toni Morrison

To ask for a purely intellectual proof of the existence of God is like asking for the privilege of being able to…

— Meher Baba

I want to work with non-profits that stimulate growth to the community. Whether it is economic growth, intellectual, or freedom.

— Gbenga Akinnagbe

I'm an intellectual, but I've always had jobs that required physical labor above all else.

— Niall Matter

Men are not narrow in their intellectual interests by nature; it takes special and rigorous training to accomplish that end.

— Jacob Viner

Make no mistake about it: Law school is not a bastion of intellectual discourse.

— Tucker Max

Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.

— Jorge Luis Borges

The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers.

— Benjamin Banneker