Intellectual Quotes

1909 Intellectual quotes by 1296 unique authors

This ceremony and the intellectual aura associated with the Nobel Prizes have grown from the wisdom of a practical chemist who wrote a remarkable will. — Stanford Moore
The measure of our intellectual capacity is the capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better and better problems. — C. West Churchman
Calculus is the outcome of a dramatic intellectual struggle which has lasted for twenty-five hundred years. — Richard Courant
...There is no study in the world which brings into more harmonious action all the faculties of the mind than [mathematics], ... or, like this,… — James Joseph Sylvester
Steve Martin is one of the most intelligent, well-read human beings that I've ever come across. He is equally as funny off screen as he… — Anthony LaPaglia
If China wants to be a constructive, active player in the world economy, it's got to respect intellectual property rights or it makes it pretty… — Dan Glickman
Marks of Identity is, among other things, the expression of the process of alienation in a contemporary intellectual with respect to his own country. — Juan Goytisolo
Cultivate an intellectual habit of subordinating one's opinions and wishes to objective evidence and a reverence for things as they really are. — William Ian Beardmore Beveridge
I have to deplore the systematic manner in which the literature of Europe has continued to put out of sight our obligations to the Muhammadans.… — John William Draper
When the intellectual part of guitar playing overrides the spiritual, you don't get to extreme heights. — John Frusciante
My mother, who was professional schoolteacher, was particularly concerned about our formal education and even went so far as to start a private school together… — Robert B. Laughlin
Personally, I regard myself as an intellectual 'rebel,' kicking against the 'old colonialism-imperialism paradigm' which has landed Africa in a conundrum. — George Ayittey
Yellow is a very favorable vibration for mental or intellectual activity, as it promotes a clear state of mind. Yellow heightens your awareness and alleviates… — Tae Yun Kim
From it genesis twelve hundred years ago to today, Islamic philosophy (al-hikmah; al-falsafah) has been one of the major intellectual traditions within the Islamic world,… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr
The intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics. — Jay Chiat
The best system I've ever seen for intellectual distribution is the direct selling business-also known as one-to-one marketing, network marketing, referral marketing or relationship marketing. — Paul Zane Pilzer
I believe passionately that Christianity is a way of life, not a theological system with which one must be in intellectual agreement. I feel that… — Leslie Weatherhead
Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action. Their acquisition obligates each man… — Midge Decter
We are permitted to suppose that the relatively small size of the female brain depends in part upon her physical inferiority and in part upon… — Paul Broca
Science as an intellectual exercise enriches our culture, and is in itself ennobling. — Henry Taube
To me the special quality (which of course many men have as well) is first of all a sharpness, a clarityIt cuts through - especially… — Tenzin Palmo
Legendary innovators like Franklin, Snow, and Darwin all possess some common intellectual qualities—a certain quickness of mind, unbounded curiosity—but they also share one other defining… — Steven Johnson
If there's an intellectual highway, there's also an intellectual subway. — Stanley Crouch
Ideal for the child and society in the best of times, Rudolf Steiner's brilliant process of education is critically needed and profoundly relevant now at… — Joseph Chilton Pearce
The movies are one of the bad habits that corrupted our century.Of their many sins, I offer as the worst their effect on the intellectual… — Ben Hecht

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