Intellectual Quotes

1909 Intellectual quotes by 1296 unique authors

A philosopher is a sort of intellectual yokel who gawks at things that sensible people take for granted. — Alan Watts
The mass of people who are Bible-taught never get free from the erroneous impressions stamped on their minds in their infancy, so that their manhood… — Gerald Massey
My primary goal of hacking was the intellectual curiosity, the seduction of adventure. — Kevin Mitnick
A social democratic party without deep roots in the working class movement would quickly fade into an unrepresentative intellectual sect — Roy Jenkins
Immanuel Kant lived with knowledge as with his lawfully wedded wife, slept with it in the same intellectual bed for forty years and begot an… — Stefan Zweig
When public and private sectors combine intellectual and other resources, more can be achieved — Gro Harlem Brundtland
The typical white intellectual considers himself superior to ordinary white people for two contradictory reasons: a] he constantly proclaims belief in human equality, but they… — Steve Sailer
We will soon create intelligences greater than our own ... When this happens, human history will have reached a kind of singularity, an intellectual transition… — Vernor Vinge
In A Man With a Pipe, my brother observed that although my father had been seen as intellectual and my mother more a creature of… — Madeleine Albright
Do not confuse understanding with a larger vocabulary, sacred writings are beneficial in stimulating desire for inward realization, if one stanza at a time is… — Sri Yukteswar Giri
I take higher ground. I hold that in the present state of civilization, where two races of different origin, and distinguished by color, and other… — John C. Calhoun
I believe in intelligence, and I believe also that there are inherited differences in intellectual ability, but I do not believe that intelligence is a… — Peter Medawar
The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words; whereas the things one loves, lives,… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
What good is a theory of how the universe works if it’s a series of tensor equations that, even when understood, come nowhere tangential to… — Terence McKenna
Humans are addicted to the hope for a final reckoning, but intellectual humility requires that we resist the temptation to assume that tools of the… — Thomas Nagel
The business of both parent and teacher is to enable and to help the child to educate himself, to develop his own intellectual, moral, aesthetic… — Sri Aurobindo
Power operates only destructively, bent always on forcing every manifestation of life into the straitjacket of its laws. Its intellectual form of expression is dead… — Rudolf Rocker
Power operates only destructively, bent always on forcing every manifestation of life into the straitjacket of its laws. Its intellectual form of expression is dead… — Rudolf Rocker
People forgot that industry is not an end in itself, but should be only a means to insure to man his material subsistence and to… — Rudolf Rocker
We need to understand enough of modern thought to identify the ways it blocks us from living out the Gospel the way God intends, both… — Nancy Pearcey
A man rejects God neither because of intellectual demands nor because of the scarcity of evidence. A man rejects God because of a moral resistance… — Ravi Zacharias
A crucial contribution to the ideological argument ...it provides a vital part of the intellectual manifesto on which the battle for a better society can… — Roy Hattersley
We do not need more material development, we need more spiritual development. We do not need more intellectual power, we need more moral power. We… — Calvin Coolidge
It is almost an intellectual tradition to pay heed to the insane. In my case those that I most respect are the morons. — Henri Michaux
Faith is not a leap in the dark; it’s the exact opposite. It’s a commitment based on evidence… It is irrational to reduce all faith… — John Lennox

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