What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error. — Raymond Aron Copy Share Image
“He was born to be alone, a damned cold intellectual, an egoist.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
We need modesty not only in the way we dress; we need intellectual modesty. — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
What are the "maximum" limits of acceptance of the term "intellectual"? — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
To be intellectual does not require one to be alienated and oppositional. — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
It is a part of the intellectual's tragedy that the things he most values about himself and his work are quite unlike… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
To the man-in-the-street, who, I'm sorry to say, is a keen observer of life. The word Intellectual suggests straight away. A man… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The worst thing that can happen to an artist is to be subsidized by the state. It leads to an intellectual and… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
I think if I hadn't become a sociologist, I would have become very anti-intellectual. — Pierre Bourdieu Copy Share Image
Pick up a grain a day and add to your heap. You will soon learn, by happy experience, the power of littles… — John Seely Hart Copy Share Image
Never confuse faith, or belief—of any kind—with something even remotely intellectual. — John Irving Copy Share Image
Professional intellectuals are the voice of a culture and are, therefore, its leaders, its integrators and its bodyguards. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
We have to move toward specificity, intelligence, facts, proof, and mutual affection. What I think people have to do now is be… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
[T]he more one is conscious of one's political bias, the more chance one has of acting politically without sacrificing one's aesthetic and… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I don't hate anybody. The Winklevi aren't suing me for intellectual property theft. They're suing me because for the first time in… — Mark Zuckerberg Copy Share Image
People think I hate Billy Martin. I don't. I hate some of the things he did. And I will say I don't… — Reggie Jackson Copy Share Image
He was a physically imposing presence - 6 feet tall and very broad in the shoulders - and an imposing intellectual presence… — Jack Hemingway Copy Share Image
There's something about being cerebral, intellectual, and yet emotionally repressed [in being villain]. If you think someone's doing this [bad] stuff and… — Tom Hooper Copy Share Image
Without the institution of slavery, civilization would never have been achieved, for no one could ever have done anything intellectual if he… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
I write to relieve an intellectual itch. I stumble across a hitherto neglected set of events, transformations, characters, or source materials from… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
From the moment when a subordinate class becomes really independent and dominant, calling into being a new type of State, the need… — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
We have been taught (that is, schooled) in this country to think of 'success' as synonymous with, or at least dependent upon,… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
Popular culture, on average, has been growing more cognitively challenging over the past thirty years, not less. Despite everything you hear about… — Steven Johnson Copy Share Image
We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our… — David Rockefeller Copy Share Image
The arts are not simply skills: their concern is the intellectual, ethical, and spiritual maturity of human life. And in a time… — Robert Shaw Copy Share Image
Conventional measures of mental ability, such as intelligence tests and scholarship, show some of the very highest records belong to INFP and… — Isabel Briggs Myers Copy Share Image
Science would not be what it is if there had not been a Galileo, a Newton or a Lavoisier, any more than… — Norman Robert Campbell Copy Share Image
What is now called 'green architecture' is an opportunistic caricature of a much deeper consideration of the issues related to sustainability that… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
the restricting of intellectual and spiritual needs to the mania of progress — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
An intellectual is someone who has found something more interesting than sex. — Edgar Wallace Copy Share Image
We're intellectual opposites. Well, I'm intellectual and you're opposite. — Mae West Copy Share Image
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