Intellectual Quotes

1909 Intellectual quotes by 1296 unique authors

Faith must become more than a verbal proclamation or an intellectual assent. True faith must be acted out. — Millard Fuller
Intellectuals tend to be arrogant. Intelligence, like money, is a good servant but a bad master. When practicing pranayama, the yogi [makes] himself humble and without… — B.K.S. Iyengar
I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual. — Rahul Dravid
Nature first, then theory. Or, better, Nature and theory closely intertwined while you throw all your intellectual capital at the subject. Love the organisms for… — E. O. Wilson
My point is, however, that churches do promote beliefs that would more appropriately find a place in a context of intellectual debate. They wind up… — Robert M. Price
You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that. — George Orwell
I call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a… — Woody Allen
Western societies from ancient Athens to imperial Rome to the French republic rarely collapsed because of a shortage of resources or because foreign enemies proved… — Victor Davis Hanson
TED was simply wonderful, an intellectual spa, a 21st-century Chataqua, superb and singular. — Kurt Andersen
As a child I wanted to be a grown-up. I wanted to know everything - not that I like to talk about it. I hate… — Karl Lagerfeld
A sentence is like a tune. A memorable sentence gives its emotion a melodic shape. You want to hear it again, say it—in a way,… — Robert Pinsky
Intellectual capital will always trump financial capital. — Paul Tudor Jones
Growth comes from activity, not from intellectual understanding. — Maria Montessori
Movement, or physical activity, is thus an essential factor in intellectual growth, which depends upon the impressions received from outside. Through movement we come in… — Maria Montessori
When mental development is under discussion, there are many who say, 'How does movement come into it? We are talking about the mind.' And when… — Maria Montessori
Education should therefore include the two forms of work, manual and intellectual, for the same person, and thus make it understood by practical experience that… — Maria Montessori
It's not going to happen through technology or our intellectual abilities but only through prayer. When we pray, God works. We believe God blesses churches… — David Jeremiah
It is also an absolute mistake to believe that the State can be anything other than a civitas diaboli if it does not resurrect itself… — Julius Evola
Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime. — Imre Lakatos
A person may be a moron or an imbecile if he is lacking in judgment; but with good judgment he can never be either. Indeed… — Alfred Binet
It seems to us that in intelligence there is a fundamental faculty, the alteration or the lack of which, is of the utmost importance for… — Alfred Binet
Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information. — Kingman Brewster, Jr.
Give up identification with this mass of flesh as well as with what thinks it a mass. Both are intellectual imaginations. Recognise your true self… — Adi Shankara
The greatest danger to the State is independent intellectual criticism. — Murray Rothbard
To say that you can 'have experience,' means, for one thing, that your past plays into and affects your present, and that it defines your… — C. Wright Mills

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