Intellectual Quotes

1909 Intellectual quotes by 1296 unique authors

There is... in our day, a powerful antidote to nonsense, which hardly existed in earlier times - I mean science. Science cannot be ignored or… — Bertrand Russell
The Sentimentalist, roughly speaking, is the man who wants to eat his cake and have it. He has no sense of honor about ideas; he… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
An intellectual is going to have doubts, for example, about a fundamentalist religious doctrine that admits no doubt, about an imposed political system that allows… — Antonio Tabucchi
You don't have to be really good anymore to get good results. What's happening with Chess is that it's gradually losing its place as the… — Unknown Author
I am certainly not an intellectual relativist, nor a moral relativist. — Edward Tufte
I hope that I am generous and tolerant, but certainly on the intellectual side I think that there are discoverable truths, and some things that… — Edward Tufte
Intellectual freedom is essential -- freedom to obtain and distribute information, freedom for open-minded and unfearing debate and freedom from pressure by officialdom and prejudices.… — Andrei Sakharov
To an intellectual who is adrift in politics, a theory is an aim; to a true politician his theory is a boundary — Francis Parker Yockey
Every man who has reached even his intellectual teens begins to suspect that life is no farce; that it is not genteel comedy even; that… — Unknown Author
It's time that we acknowledge the wisdom women have acquired by managing the chaos of daily life. Women are realists, the glue that holds society… — Teresa Heinz
All experience and phenomena are understood to be a dream, this should not be just an intellectual understanding, but a vivid and lucid experience...Genuine integration… — Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
A great deal of time and intellectual force are lost in the world, because the false seems great and the truth so small and insignificant. — Maria Montessori
It will be sufficient to point to the enormous burdens which armaments place on the economic, social, and intellectual resources of a nation, as well… — Ludwig Quidde
For many decades now - and certainly during my adult life in academe - the Western intellectual world has not been convinced that theology is… — Arthur Peacocke
I am just as deaf as I am blind. The problems of deafness are deeper and more complex, if not more important than those of… — Helen Keller
Herein lies the real value of education. Advanced education may or may not make men and women more efficient; but it enriches personality, increases the… — William Lyon Phelps
What a revolting contrast exists in England between the slavery of women and the intellectual superiority of women writers. — Flora Tristan
So long as a man remains a gregarious and sociable being, he cannot cut himself off from the gratification of the instinct of imparting what… — James Joseph Sylvester
Whoever is fortunate enough to be an American citizen came into the greatest inheritance man has ever enjoyed. He has had the benefit of every… — Isabel Paterson
When I have attempted to join myself to others by services, it proved an intellectual trick,-no more. They eat your service like apples, and leave… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention. — Simone Weil
No true manhood can be trained by a merely intellectual process. You cannot train men by the intellect alone; you must train them by the… — Joseph Parker
It [the Holocaust] is something like a religion.... The Intellectual Adventure is that we are reversing this entire trend within the space of one generation… — David Irving
The climate-change deniers are rapidly ending up with as much intellectual credibility as creationists and Flat Earthers. ...they are nudging close to having the moral… — Johann Hari
Cultural criticism finds itself faced with the final stage of the dialectic of culture and barbarism. To write poetry after the holocaust is barbaric. And… — Theodor Adorno

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