Intellectual Quotes

1909 Intellectual quotes by 1296 unique authors

We must make the building of a free society once more an intellectual adventure, a deed of courage. — Friedrich August von Hayek
Man cannot be enlightened through any organization, creed, dogma, priest or ritual, nor through any philosophical knowledge or psychological technique. He has to find it… — Radhanath Swami
More and more in the art world are becoming moralistic, telling artists and critics what they should and shouldn't write, do, or make art about.… — Jerry Saltz
Nothing so offends the doctrinaire intellectual as our ability to achieve the momentous in a matter-of-fact way, unblessed by words. — Eric Hoffer
America is also the nameless foreigner, the homeless refugee, the hungry boy begging for a job and the black body dangling on a tree. America… — Carlos Bulosan
The 'We Have Overcome' generation has run out of intellectual creativity but refuses to leave the political stage. — Manning Marable
What distinguishes [Afropolitans] is a willingness to complicate Africa – namely, to engage with, critique, and celebrate the parts of Africa that mean most to… — Taiye Selasi
Advocates of knowledge management as the next big thing have advanced the proposition that what companies need is more intellectual capital. While that is undeniably… — Jeffrey Pfeffer
I don't want to escape via intellectual ruses – I want affirmations via passionate embraces & you can't have life unless you live it. — Marsden Hartley
Philosophy must never be divorced from action. Unless it is put into practice, philosophy is nothing more than an intellectual game. — Josei Toda
From the business point of view—not to overstate it—intellectual property is dead; long live intellectual process. Long live service; long live performance. — Esther Dyson
If we define 'thought collective' as a community of persons mutually exchanging ideas or maintaining intellectual interaction, we will find by implication that it also… — Ludwik Fleck
It seems disingenuous for the intellectual elite of the first world to dwell on the subject of too many babies being born in the second-… — Jeremy Rifkin
Believe me when I tell you that thrift of time will repay you in after life, with a usury of profit beyond your most sanguine… — Herbert Gladstone, 1st Viscount Gladstone
Man offers himself to God. He stands before Him like the canvas before the painter or the marble before the sculptor. At the same time… — Alexis Carrel
But in many orders of beauty, particularly those of the finer arts, it is requisite to employ much reasoning, in order to feel the proper… — David Hume
It is only in folk tales, children's stories, and the journals of intellectual opinion that power is used wisely and well to destroy evil. The… — Noam Chomsky
There is a vast difference between intellectual belief and the total conversion that saves the soul. — Billy Graham
Overcoming complacency is crucial at the start of any change process, and it often requires a little bit of surprise, something that grabs attention at… — John P. Kotter
A man must not only have faith but intellectual faith too. To make a man take up everything and believe it, would be to make… — Swami Vivekananda
Having confidence in a free society is to focus on the process of discovery in the marketplace of values rather than to focus on some… — Ken Schoolland
... there is an irrational, cultish tendency in many intellectual movements, and Objectivism, alas, is no exception. Ayn Rand's personal obsession with loyalty did little… — Nathaniel Branden
At George Mason University I saw Hoppe present a lecture in which he claimed that Ludwig von Mises had set the intellectual foundation for not… — Tom G. Palmer
It was the transmutation of the classical liberal intellectual foundation by Christianity that gave modern Europe its impetus and that pushed European accomplishment so far… — Charles A. Murray
Tell me I'm beautiful, it's nothing. Tell me I'm intellectual - I know it. Tell me I'm funny and it's the greatest compliment in the… — Julie Newmar

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