Intellectual Quotes
1909 Intellectual quotes by 1296 unique authors
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Men are more readily contented with no intellectual light than with a little; and wherever they have been taught to acquire some knowledge in order…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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When the panting and thirsting soul first drinks the delicious waters of truth, when the moral and intellectual tastes and desires first seize the fragrant…
— Horace Mann
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Your inner-most dominant thoughts become your outer-most tangible reality.
— John Frederick Demartini
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Dull witted brooding people love to stuff themselves with quantities of heavy food, just like animals for fattening. Bubbly intellectual people love foods which stimulate…
— Unknown Author
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Intellectual men who quickly wolf down whatever nourishment is necessary for their bodies with a kind of disdain, may be very rational and have a…
— Charles-Augustin de Coulomb
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Let me by the child in that story and declare that the Emperor is naked-or that America is culturally bankrupt.
— Ayn Rand
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But Aristotle's philosophy was the intellect's Declaration of Independence.
— Ayn Rand
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The first society in history whose leaders were neither Attilas nor Witch Doctors, a society led, dominated and created by the Producers, was the United…
— Ayn Rand
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A free mind and a free market are corollaries.
— Ayn Rand
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Memory is the primary and fundamental power, without which there could be no other intellectual operation.
— Samuel Johnson
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Curiosity, earnest research to learn the hidden laws of nature, gladness akin to rapture, as they unfolded to me, are among the earliest sensations I…
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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NVC shows us a way of being very honest, but without any criticism, insults, or putdowns, and without any intellectual diagnosis implying wrongness.
— Marshall B. Rosenberg
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The best lesson which we get from the tragedy of Karbala is that Husain and his companions were rigid believers in God. They illustrated that…
— Thomas Carlyle
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In a distant age and climate, the tragic scene of the death of Hosein will awaken the sympathy of the coldest reader.
— Edward Gibbon
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I learnt from Hussein how to achieve victory while being oppressed.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Great sport has intellectual beauty.
— Rick Carlisle
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It doesn't stand up to huge intellectual scrutiny.
— Andrew Lloyd Webber
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Intellectual passion dries out sensuality.
— Leonardo da Vinci
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Tennis doesn't encourage any kind of intellectual development.
— Jim Courier
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George Bush's political, intellectual and other shortcomings cannot be restricted to one sentence.
— Unknown Author
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The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater.
— Robertson Davies
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The world looks a totally different place after two wins. I can even enjoy watching Blind Date or laugh at Noel's House Party.
— Gordon Strachan
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For original ideas to come about, you have to let them percolate under the level of consciousness in a place where we have no way…
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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He must have been an incredibly good shot.
— Noel Coward
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He was not so much brain as earwax
— William Shakespeare
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