Intellectual Quotes

1909 Intellectual quotes by 1296 unique authors

Exploration is the physical expression of the Intellectual Passion. And I tell you, if you have the desire for knowledge and the power to give… — Apsley Cherry-Garrard
Our ideas are only intellectual instruments which we use to break into phenomena; we must change them when they have served their purpose, as we… — Claude Bernard
I'm not sure that pasteurized thinking is rich enough in intellectual vitamins — Keith Laumer
For emotional reasons, connected with my affection for my parents, I was a reluctant atheist, but giving up religion brought peace of mind because intellectual… — Unknown Author
Canada is either an idea or it does not exist. It is either an intellectual undertaking or it is little more than a resource-rich vacuum… — John Ralston Saul
Owning pipelines, people, products, or even intellectual property is no longer the key to success. Openness is. — Jeff Jarvis
Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould
Using governmental force to impose a vision on others is intellectual sloth. — Ken Schoolland
Anxiety is the essential condition of intellectual and artistic creation and everything that is finest in human history. — Charles Frankel
Politically, the goal of today’s dominant trend is statism. Philosophically , the goal is the obliteration of reason; psychologically , it is the erosion of… — Ayn Rand
I was moving among two groups... who had almost ceased to communicate at all, who in intellectual, moral, and psychological climate had so little in… — Carrie P Snow
Be wary of the arrogant intellectual who comments from the stands without having played on the field. — Ray Dalio
One would think that by the second decade of the twenty-first century, the intellectual poverty of technocracy and the primacy of politics over it would… — Evgeny Morozov
I really don’t feel exclusiveMy ambition instead, perhaps because of my peasant-worker background, is to look at the world with others, not as an aristocratic intellectual. — Unknown Author
So basically, I think music at its best can be everything. It can be totally stupid and very intellectual and emotional at the same time.… — Ville Valo
Neither god, nor angels, or just men, command you to suffer for a single moment. Therefore it is your solemn and imperative duty to use… — Henry Highland Garnet
Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility. — Hu Shih
The goal of intellectual life should be to see and understand what is true, not merely to adhere to a prevailing orthodoxy. — Jeffrey Tucker
There is nothing that an intellectual less likes to change than his mind, or a politician his policy. — Theodore Dalrymple
Conventional measures of mental ability, such as intelligence tests and scholarship, show some of the very highest records belong to INFP and INFJ types, who… — Isabel Briggs Myers
I just thought: Oh goodness, you can wear nice clothes and get your hair done and still be a feminist and a serious intellectual. — Jacqueline Rose
Yes, I am positive that one of the great curatives of our evils, our maladies, social, moral, and intellectual, would be a return to the… — Charles Wagner
Men are confused. They're conflicted. They want a woman who's their intellectual equal, but they're afraid of women like that. They want a woman they… — Diane Frolov
Physical growth is a function of time. No two-year-old child has ever been six feet tall. Intellectual growth is a function of learning. Spiritual growth… — John Bevere
A weak man is not as happy as that same man would be if he were strong. This reality is offensive to some people who… — Mark Rippetoe

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