Intellectual Quotes · Page 46

It's usually only the intellectual ones who understand what's going on in what I do.

— Alexander McQueen

My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his intellectual freedom

— Franz Boas

When I write my music I see all the rivers flowing... sensual, spiritual, religious, animal, intellectual.

— Laura Nyro

I don't want to pretend like I'm some intellectual person who understands Flannery O'Connor.

— Sara Zarr

... the novel is called upon like no other art form to incorporate the intellectual content of an age.

— Robert Musil

Calculus is the outcome of a dramatic intellectual struggle which has lasted for twenty-five hundred years.

— Richard Courant

The gas-law of learning: . . . any amount of information no matter how small will fill any intellectual void no matter how large.

— Hugh Nibley

Life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his…

— Samuel Johnson

I was convinced that, besides millions of frank unbelievers, there are today large numbers of half-believers to whom religion is a source…

— Margaret E. Knight

I didn't even have a clear idea of why I wanted to go to Oxford - apart from the fact I had…

— Alan Bennett

Indeed, I did not truly "belong" to any school, order, intellectual camaraderie or clique; I did not apply for admission to any…

— Zygmunt Bauman

All forms of birth--physical, intellectual, spiritual or emotional--bring one to the depths. The power to give birth originates in the creative life…

— Amy Wright

Science is the greatest creative impulse of our time. It dominates the intellectual scene and forms our lives, not only in the…

— Polykarp Kusch

Some people aren't smart enough to understand the intellectual part of a being. That's why as a 30-year-old you don't have a…

— The-Dream

Money is the most important subject intellectual persons can investigate and reflect upon. It is so important that our present civilization may…

— Robert W. Hemphill

When tempted to be unfaithful, the intellectual woman will try to inspire her husband with indifference, the sentimental woman with hatred, and…

— Honore de Balzac

Classical music is at odds with contemporary culture precisely because of its insistence on the tension between the bodily and intellectual, the…

— Julian Johnson

Intellectuals resist faith longer because they can: where ordinary people are helpless before the light, intellectuals are clever enough to spin webs…

— Peter Kreeft

“There is nothing distinctively scientific about the hypothetico-deductive process. It is not even distinctively intellectual. It is merely a scientific context for…

— Peter B. Medawar

One of the great intellectual mistakes Einstein made is that he thought that space and time are physically or ontologically entangled. In…

— Kedar Joshi

The thing to understand is that if you are going to reform society you don't start with cops. And if you are…

— Robert M. Pirsig

The most valuable thing a teacher can impart to children is not knowledge and understanding per se but a longing for knowledge…

— Albert Einstein

I am an innovator. This is a term of distinction, a term of honor, rather than something to hide or apologize for.…

— Ayn Rand

America is also the nameless foreigner, the homeless refugee, the hungry boy begging for a job and the black body dangling on…

— Carlos Bulosan

The more intellectual you are, the more egoistic you are, and surrendering becomes more difficult.

— Mata Amritanandamayi

Real intellectuals like to escape once in a while from their world of intellect.

— Desi Arnaz

I'm no lyrical stylist; you wouldn't pick me for a perfect sentence, and I certainly wouldn't describe my novels as intellectual.

— Joanna Trollope

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of…

— John Ruskin

Personally, I regard myself as an intellectual 'rebel,' kicking against the 'old colonialism-imperialism paradigm' which has landed Africa in a conundrum.

— George Ayittey

The teacher who would be true to his mission and accomplish the most good, must give prominence to moral as well as…

— Sheldon Jackson

Plato's concern is not just an intellectual issue, but it is knitted with emotional life as well.

— Rebecca Goldstein

My father was very confrontational and an intellectual bully. My mom was a peacemaker who wanted to make everyone comfortable.

— Rick Owens

“National Review's premise was that conformity was especially egregious among the intellectuals, that herd of independent minds.”

— George will

Beethoven, Schubert, Schoenberg, Berg imply a type of pianist who is intellectual. That's not always associated with female soloists.

— Jeffrey Tate

Most of the intellectual elite of the USA completely disavow the idea of absolute truth.

— Ravi Zacharias

I didn't know many classes where I could try and relate the thing that I really loved and wanted to do into…

— Jake Gyllenhaal

The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.

— Anonymous

[To Aquinas] the senses are what we have in common with dumb animals. ... Our better part [is] the mind ... and…

— Anthony John Patrick Kenny

I was born in France. My father was a renowned French philosopher and journalist, and my mother was a painter. So I…

— Matthieu Ricard

I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much.

— Newt Gingrich