Intellectual Quotes · Page 8

My dad was a miner, but he was very much an intellectual. He loved to read.

— Homer Hickam

Beware the artist who's an intellectual also. The artist who doesn't fit.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

The history of intellectual progress is written in the lives of infidels.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

“Introspection does not need to be a still life. It can be an active alchemy.”

— Anaïs Nin

Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat.

— Mary Renault

Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise.

— Jeremiah

I've been called many things, but never an intellectual.

— Tallulah Bankhead

Longevity is the revenge of talent upon genius.

— Cyril Connolly

There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated.

— Dan Glickman

Intellectual controversies tend to be like dog fights without the teeth, in which the barking not the biting does the damage.

— Luis Fernando Verissimo

We must deal with Chinese theft of intellectual property, though no one is sure that tariffs are the solution.

— John Layfield

Intellectual disgrace Stares from every human face, And the seas of pity lie Locked and frozen in each eye.

— W. H. Auden

[On Cantor's work:] The finest product of mathematical genius and one of the supreme achievements of purely intellectual human activity.

— David Hilbert

There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.

— Philip James Bailey

Americans are genuinely and profoundly anti-intellectual. They are especially so in their pleasure-seeking, which is epically banal.

— Jesse Ball

There is no intellectual or emotional substitute for the authentic, the original, the unique masterpiece.

— Paul Mellon

But ultimately what I was impressed by during my years in government was how much the intellectual climate and the prevailing intellectual…

— Lawrence Summers

I began demonstrating against serious culture. In hindsight, the actual course of events has been very humiliating for me, because no one…

— Henry Flynt

The bedrock nature of space and time and the unification of cosmos and quantum are surely among science's great 'open frontiers.' These…

— Martin Rees

I came up during the 'Star Wars' generation and that was sort of the thing I plugged into much more. It was…

— Zachary Quinto

In a lot of writing or intellectual discourse we're starting to use that model: "Oh, this is where it comes from!" I…

— Susan Sontag

If there is one subject in this world worthy of being discussed, worthy of being understood, it is the question of intellectual…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

In an essay, you have the outcome in your pocket before you set out on your journey, and very rarely do you…

— Cynthia Ozick

Intellectual work is essentially a lonely process, and if you can find a way of doing something so that you're in company…

— Whitfield Diffie

One Spirit Medicine allows you to experience communion with Spirit and understand the workings of creation. This understanding is not academic or…

— Alberto Villoldo

Of all the things we are wrong about, error might well top the list ... We are wrong about what it means…

— Kathryn Schulz

Vegetarianism is not implicitly important for the mental progress or the intellectual development, unless it is supposed to be a remedy to…

— Franz Bardon

Toward the end of his life, Gödel feared that he was being poisoned, and he starved himself to death. His theorem is…

— Brian L. Silver

Even the wisest of mankind cannot live by reason alone; pure arrogant reason, denying the claims of prejudice (which commonly are also…

— Russell Kirk

The collective psychology is something very close to being sacred - we can do it but we don't do it. We should…

— Tariq Ramadan

Western societies from ancient Athens to imperial Rome to the French republic rarely collapsed because of a shortage of resources or because…

— Victor Davis Hanson

“what I defend above all is the possibility and the necessity of the critical intellectual, who is firstly critical of the intellectual…

— Pierre Bourdieu

Philadelphia is a depressing intellectual slum

— Albert C. Barnes

“One can be granted intellectual liberty when one has no intellect.”

— George Orwell

[Our understanding is] not intellectual, but instinctive.

— Ann Richards

Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do.

— Jean Piaget

Don't get me wrong - intellectual snobbery is vulgar and gauche.

— Robert Webb

They don't tell you this in school, Everybody plays the fool.

— Smokey Robinson

Nerd? I prefer the term 'Intellectual Hardcore'

— Jamzy

Intellectual Property is the oil of the 21st century.

— Mark Getty