Acting Quote by Ayn Rand

I'm funding a new business with money I would have given away in the first place. And I'm starting a responsible business and I'm…

— Horst Rechelbacher

If a man has the right to self-ownership, to the control of his life, then in the real world he must also have the…

— Murray Rothbard

To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. This is the sport, the luxury, special to the intellectual man.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

The intellectual, the man of thought, doubt and analysis, should give the best of himself.

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

Man needs knowledge in order to survive, and only reason can achieve it; men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason, can exist…

— Ayn Rand

Even now, the irony that so non-intellectual a man should choose to engage the Soviet Union on the battlefield of ideas has eluded most…

— Richard Perle

A true intellectual is a man who, after reading a book and being convinced by its arguments, will shoot someone or, more likely, order…

— John McCarthy

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

I hardly know an intellectual man, even, who is so broad and truly liberal that you can think aloud in his society.

— Henry David Thoreau

when General Eisenhower defined an intellectual as "a man who takes more words than is necessary to tell more than he knows", he was…

— Randall Jarrell

An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.

— Spiro T. Agnew

“To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. This is the sport, the luxury, special to the intellectual man. The gesture characteristic…

— José Ortega y Gasset