“A man must be quite intelligent in order to accept that a woman is his intellectual equal.” — Dora Musielak Copy Share Image
No leader, however great a personality he may be, is as important to a people as their own intellectual development. — George William Russell Copy Share Image
Lecturers should remember that the capacity of the mind to absorb is limited to what the seat can endure. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of… — Hu Shih Copy Share Image
You know, albums are a funny thing. They're not like an intellectual decision. It's a collection of your kind of musings. — Glen Hansard Copy Share Image
May not men earn their bread by intellectual labor? No, the needs of the body must be supplied by the body. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The painter is not an intellectual if, when he has painted a nude woman, he gives us the idea that she is… — Odilon Redon Copy Share Image
The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Education should therefore include the two forms of work, manual and intellectual, for the same person, and thus make it understood by… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
I remember being very smart, which is a form of stupidity. I try not to remember it, but it occurs to me… — Corra May Harris Copy Share Image
Our lives are complex; our emotions are complex; our intellectual desires are complex. I believe that architecture … needs to mirror that… — Daniel Libeskind Copy Share Image
It seems whenever I've had a method or what I perceived to be an intellectual groundwork of some sort - a kind… — John Malkovich Copy Share Image
The best and the worst thing about fashion is that anyone can do it. But because fashion can be the most unintellectual… — Joseph Altuzarra Copy Share Image
Over-intellectualizing can justify practically anything. Reason has reasons that can create holocausts. In the 20th century, we have certainly seen how much… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
Mary McCarthy and that Mr. Intellectual kind of guy ... Dwight McDonald? And they were really mean about [Jerome David] Salinger, and… — Whit Stillman Copy Share Image
As you probably know, I'm often accused of intellectual exhibitionism and all forms of elitism. Although I can understand this point of… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
In the world of knowledge, the essential Form of Good is the limit of our inquiries, and can barely be perceived; but,… — Plato Copy Share Image
In the mathematics I can report no deficience, except that it be that men do not sufficiently understand the excellent use of… — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
The quintessential revolution is that of the spirit, born of an intellectual conviction of the need for change in those mental attitudes… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
“Our minds thus grow in spots; and like grease-spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible: we… — William James Copy Share Image
People who, as children, were intellectually far beyond their parents and therefore admired by them, but who also therefore had to solve… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
I've always been - as a teacher, as graduate student, as a student, and I think, really, as a child - I've… — David Ferry Copy Share Image
I don't want students who could make the next major breakthrough in renewable energy sources or space travel to have been taught… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
All propaganda must be popular and its intellectual level must be adjusted to the most limited intelligence among those it is addressed… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
I was a sort of New York intellectual when I was 16. I wanted to dress like Annie Hall when I was 18. — Rebecca Hall Copy Share Image
Music contains a whole gamut of experience, from sensuous elements to ultimate intellectual harmonies. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of historians; much more than that it does… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One thing I don't want around me is a military intellectual. I don't have to worry about you on that score. — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Mystery is an intellectual process... But suspense is essentially an emotional process. — Alfred Hitchcock Copy Share Image
The goal of intellectual life should be to see and understand what is true, not merely to adhere to a prevailing orthodoxy. — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share Image
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Anxiety is the essential condition of intellectual and artistic creation and everything that is finest in human history. — Charles Frankel Copy Share Image
I may turn out an intellectual, but I'll never write anything but mediocre poetry. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
An invaluable part of intellectual (and personal) growth comes from having the freedom to express your own ideas, and to engage with… — Kat Timpf Copy Share Image
George Bush's political, intellectual and other shortcomings cannot be restricted to one sentence. — Emilio Botin Copy Share Image
John Connally's conversion to the GOP raised the intellectual level of both parties. — Frank Mankiewicz Copy Share Image
God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
PASTIME, n. A device for promoting dejection. Gentle exercise for intellectual debility. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image