Intellectual Quotes

1909 Intellectual quotes by 1296 unique authors

Of all the potential perils to the new American republic, the prospect of concentrated power . . . troubled the intellectual leaders of the Revolutionary… — Joe Conason
Contraction of theological influence has at once been the best measure, and the essential condition of intellectual advance. — William Edward Hartpole Lecky
The period of Catholic ascendancy was on the whole one of the most deplorable in the history of the human mind. . . . The… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky
I think that what's so interesting about her is that she took to an extreme her embrace of peasant life even though she was a… — Tom Jaine
If the person you are trying to diagnose politically is some sort of intellectual, the chances are two to one he is a Democrat. — Vance Packard
During periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights which give so… — Fritjof Capra
Every Latter-day Saint should make the study of this book a lifetime pursuit. Otherwise, he is placing his soul in jeopardy and neglecting that which… — Ezra Taft Benson
The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal. — Sallust
People align with movements they can believe in, and it is the human, intellectual, and financial investment in genuine content that defines experiences. — Brian Solis
The Unconscious Civilisation There is a certain terrifying dignity to the big ideologies. With the stroke of an intellectual argument the planet is put in… — John Ralston Saul
History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff - well, it might… — Arnold J. Toynbee
Whoever would not remain in complete ignorance of the resources which cause him to act; whoever would seize, at a single philosophical glance, the nature… — Franz Joseph Gall
Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact. — H. L. Mencken
The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected. — George Henry Lewes
When a small business grows like eBay did, it has a multiplier effect. It creates other small businesses that supply it with intellectual capital, goods… — Meg Whitman
Mental slavery is mental death, and every man who has given up his intellectual freedom is the living coffin of his dead soul. — Robert Green Ingersoll
Mystery is an intellectual process... But suspense is essentially an emotional process. — Alfred Hitchcock
There are no moral or intellectual merits. Homer composed the Odyssey; if we postulate an infinite period of time, with infinite circumstances and changes, the… — Jorge Luis Borges
There's no greater tragedy than an equal intensity, in the same soul or the same man, of the intellectual sentiment and the moral sentiment. For… — Fernando Pessoa
I'm a private intellectual, not a public one. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probable—namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts, the parental and filial affections… — Charles Darwin
Frederick Turner comes across in his poems as a man of impressively broad experience, intellectual brilliance, and originality. … He’s at his best when he… — Unknown Author
The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not born into the class he must soon insert himself into it, in order to exist.… — Louise Bogan
Nothing is finer for the purposes of great productions than a very gradual ripening of the intellectual powers. — John Keats
Men have such a good opinion of themselves, of their mental superiority and intellectual depth; they believe themselves so skilled in discerning the true from… — Al-Ghazali

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