Intellectual Quotes

1909 Intellectual quotes by 1296 unique authors

Mystical experience of nature can be of particular relevance to our troubled age, bringing deeper into our consciousness and emotions the logic that nature sustains… — Unknown Author
No important change in ethics was ever accomplished without an internal chage in our intellectual emphasis, loyalties, affections, and convictions. — Aldo Leopold
Faith is the avenue to salvation. Not intellectual understanding. Not money. Not your works. Just simple faith. How much faith? The faith of a mustard… — Billy Graham
We shall suffer no attachment to literature, no taste for abstract discussion, no love of purely intellectual theories, to seduce us from our devotion to… — George Ripley
The guesses which serve to give mental unity and wholeness to a chaos of scattered particulars, are accidents which rarely occur to any minds but… — John Stuart Mill
Perfection is always found in maturity, whether it be in the animal or in the intellectual world. Reflection is the mother of wisdom, and wisdom… — James F. Cooper
There's nothing on it worthwhile, and we're not going to watch it in this household, and I don't want it in your intellectual diet. — Unknown Author
Information is not synonymous with knowledge. Information is only data, parts of the whole. Knowledge has a moral imperative to enhance intellectual and spiritual unity. — Ruth Nanda Anshen
If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement… — Mark Twain
Pol Pot - he rounded up anybody he thought was intellectual and had them executed. And how he told someone was intellectual or not was… — Ricky Gervais
Obviously, despite hard work and heroic efforts, many dreams don't come true. But if we don't dare to dream and then throw muscle, heart, and… — Tom Peters
The study of infinity is much more than a dry academic game. The intellectual pursuit of the absolute infinity is, as Georg Cantor realized, a… — Rudy Rucker
...for Paul faith is always faith in a person. Faith is not the intellectual acceptance of a body of doctrine; faith is faith in a… — William Barclay
There is no need for propaganda to be rich in intellectual content. — Joseph Goebbels
The role of the federal government is to protect our liberties. That means they should protect our religious liberties to do what we want; our… — Ron Paul
During all the first part of the Middle Ages, no other people made as important a contribution to human progress as did the Arabs, if… — Unknown Author
I think what drives scientists is this tremendous intellectual adventure - pushing the boundaries of knowledge, walking down a track that nobody has walked down… — Suzanne Cory
I don't care how intelligent or attractive someone is, if he zaps your energy, he isn't for you. True chemistry is more than intellectual compatibility.… — Judith Orloff
When the nazis came to power, I looked to the universities that prided themselves upon their intellectual freedom, and they failed me. I looked to… — Albert Einstein
Anyone who says that life matters less to an animal than it does to us has not held in his hands an animal fighting for… — J M Coetzee
In living in the world by his own will and skill, the stupidest peasant or tribesman is more competent than the most intelligent worker or… — Wendell Berry
My pacifism is not based on any intellectual theory but on a deep antipathy to every form of cruelty and hatred. — Albert Einstein
All fiction, if it's successful, is going to appeal to the emotions. Emotion is really what fiction is all about. That's not to say fiction… — George R. R. Martin
When I talk to anyone or read the writings of anyone who has any axe to grind, I feel that intellectual honesty and balanced judgement… — George Orwell
Algebra is the intellectual instrument which has been created for rendering clear the quantitative aspects of the world. — Alfred North Whitehead

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