Intellectual Quotes

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We owe to memory not only the increase of our knowledge, and our progress in rational inquiries, but many other intellectual pleasures — Samuel Johnson
Literature is a comprehensive essence of the intellectual life of a nation. — William Shakespeare
If teaching has any purpose, it is to implant true insight and responsibility. Education must lead us from irresponsible opinion to true responsible judgement. It… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of historians; much more than that it does not expect, nor… — Samuel Eliot Morison
....the designer must be able to see - make a concentrated effort to absorb the essence of the project. Seeing is a very difficult thing… — Albert Hadley
An intellectual, heartless man never becomes an inspired man. It is always the heart that speaks in the man of love; it discovers a greater… — Swami Vivekananda
Next to the intellectual stimulation of chess, the educational value is of great importance. Chess teaches logic, imagination, self-discipline, and determination. — Garry Kasparov
The price paid for intellectual pacification is the sacrifice of the entire moral courage of the human mind. — John Stuart Mill
We bring together the best ideas - turning the meetings of our top managers into intellectual orgies. — Jack Welch
PASTIME, n. A device for promoting dejection. Gentle exercise for intellectual debility. — Ambrose Bierce
I look upon those who would deny others the right to urge and argue their position, however irksome and pernicious they may seem, as intellectual… — William Borah
The United States may have retained more of the intellectual imprint of the British 18th century than Britain itself. — William Rees-Mogg
Citizens of the democratic societies should undertake a course of intellectual self defense to protect themselves from manipulation and control, and to lay the basis… — Noam Chomsky
The only way out is spiritual, intellectual, and emotional revolution in which, finally, we learn to experience first hand the interloping connections between person and… — Gregory Bateson
The stupidity of a stupid man is mercifully intimate and reticient, while the stupidity of an intellectual is cried from the rooftops. — Peter Ustinov
The price of these failures has been a loss of moral consensus, a greater sense of helplessness about the human condition. ... The intellectual solution… — E. O. Wilson
There's nothing so passionate as a vested interest disguised as an intellectual conviction. — Sean O'Casey
We have entered a new phase of culture - we may call it the Age of the Cinema - in which the most amazing perfection… — Christopher Dawson
Innovation is a twofold threat to academic mediocrities: it endangers their oracular authority, and it evokes the deeper fear that their whole, laboriously constructed intellectual… — Arthur Koestler
The university is a vast public utility which turns out future workers in today's vineyard, the military-industrial complex. They've got to be processed in the… — Mario Savio
This is an age of intellectual sauces, of essence, of distillation. We have conclusions without deductions, abridgments of history and abridgments of science without leading… — Benjamin Haydon
I personally think intellectual property is an oxymoron. Physical objects have a completely different natural economy than intellectual goods. It's a tricky thing to try… — John Perry Barlow
The 'futures' and 'careers' for which American students now prepare are for the most part intellectual and moral wastelands. This chrome-plated consumers' paradise would have… — Mario Savio
Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope to read in one fleeting lifetime. A good… — David Quammen
One day I heard a speech of Hitler. In this speech he said that the German factory worker and the German labourer must make common… — Fritz Sauckel

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