Intellectual Quotes · Page 44

Intellectual life requires for its expansion and manifestation the influences and assimilation of the interests and affections of others.

— Jane Addams

Intellectual neutrality is not possible in a historical world of exploitation and oppression.

— Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza

It is always the task of the intellectual to "think otherwise." This is not just a perverse idiosyncrasy. It is an absolutely…

— Harvey Cox

...as man under pressure tends to give in to physical and intellectual weakness, only great strength of will can lead to the…

— Carl von Clausewitz

It was always said that the big distinction between the French and the English is that the English are intelligent and the…

— Anonymous

It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble.

— H. G. Wells

Americans have been selling this view around the world: that progress comes from perfect protection of intellectual property.

— Lawrence Lessig

“My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger" -…

— Sherry Marie Gallagher

Nasr combines in his writing audacious intellectual criticism, deep understanding of Islam... and a commitment to the Western-European contributions to the emancipation…

— Mohammed Arkoun

“A writer should be able to open a window or two for others to see the world and themselves in a new…

— Barista Uno

I believe in the religion of reason -- the gospel of this world; in the development of the mind, in the accumulation…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Anyone who claims to be intrigued by the "intellectual challenge of the markets" is not a trader. The markets are as intellectually…

— Ralph Vince

Before going back to college, i knew i didn't want to be an intellectual, spending my life in books and libraries without…

— Assata Shakur

A careful reading of 50 Simple Things leaves you wondering whether you're going to die from environmental disaster or intellectual annoyance. Failing…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Some song ideas absolutely require a kind of rigid discipline, and others require absolute chaotic abandon. The form is only valid if…

— John Lydon

Today we are living in an intellectual and technological paradise and a moral and social nightmare because the intellectual level of evolution,…

— Robert M. Pirsig

We must seek support in the moral values that have ensured the progress of our civilization. Honesty and hard work, responsibility and…

— Vladimir Putin

It [the Holocaust] is something like a religion… The Intellectual Adventure is that we are reversing this entire trend within the space…

— David Irving

I love the competitive aspect of it [business]. It's like playing chess. Why do people play chess? Knowing the realm of moves?…

— Mark Cuban

Human intellectual progress, such as it has been, results from our long struggle to see things 'as they are,' or in the…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

“... the divine knowing - what the Father knows, and what the Word says in response to that knowing, and what the…

— Robert Farrar Capon

It is difficult to hate an idea. That requires a certain intellectual discipline and a slightly obsessive, sick mind. There aren’t too…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I cannot project the degree of hatred required to make those women run around in crusades against abortion. Hatred is what they…

— Ayn Rand

Focused intensity is required to win. I can't stress enough that people who took control of their finances and worked their way…

— David Ramsey

I don't want the whole of my writing or my intellectual energy given over to race because I have diverse interests.

— Roxane Gay

You don't get to be a respected intellectual by uttering truisms in monosyllables.

— Noam Chomsky

Research shows that couples who have a lot of similarities, including intellectual compatibility, end up staying together.

— Helen Fisher

The sense of ultimate truth is the intellectual counterpart of the esthetic sense of perfect beauty, or the moral sense of perfect…

— George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

It's easier to fight your intellectual and ideological opponents than people you consider intellectual and ideological friends.

— Neera Tanden

If you want to be an athlete, then getting good grades, going to college, and developing your intellectual skills are important.

— Tony Dungy

Whatever books you may read, you cannot realize the Divine merely by intellectual effort. Oneness can only be promoted by the practice…

— Sathya Sai Baba

The intellectual treatment of any datum, any experience, any subject, is determined by the nature of our questions, and only carried out…

— Susanne Katherina Langer

Haitians weren't screwed-up, but everything political, intellectual, and material around them is.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Intellectuals incline to be individualists, or even independents, are not team conscious and tend to regard obedience as a surrender of personality.

— Harold Nicolson

The function of comedy is to dispelunconsciousness by turning the searchlight of the keenest moral and intellectual analysisright on to it.

— George Bernard Shaw

My primary goal of hacking was the intellectual curiosity, the seduction of adventure.

— Kevin Mitnick

To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of eternal things; to knowledge, the rational knowledge of temporal things.

— Saint Augustine

Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development.

— Oscar Wilde

Consistency in opinion is the slow poison of intellectual life, the destroyer of its vividness and energy.

— Humphry Davy

If folk is the music of the common people and not the intellectual elite, then that's what rock is.

— Michael Penn