Intellectual Quotes

1909 Intellectual quotes by 1296 unique authors

To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible. — George Washington Carver
To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is. — Dick Cavett
I would not ever try to be a show intellectual, which I was accused of doing a while on ABC. I thought you were supposed… — Dick Cavett
Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over… — William Ellery Channing
Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Do not try to approach God with your thinking mind. It may only stimulate your intellectual ideas, activities, and beliefs. Try to approach God with… — Sri Chinmoy
The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself. — Noam Chomsky
I don't like the intellectual label. — Noam Chomsky
In this business, my business, I get to meet all kinds of incredible people, fascinating people, glamorous people and sexy people and highly intellectual people.… — Madonna Ciccone
I have no nationality - the best possible status for an intellectual. — Emile M. Cioran
Bass players are always the intellectual kind, but nobody knows it. — Stanley Clarke
I've never been an intellectual but I have this look. — Woody Allen
I'm grateful to intelligent people. That doesn't mean educated. That doesn't mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used to call 'mother… — Maya Angelou
I believe, indeed, that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and factual, in our education, has led directly to… — Albert Einstein
This chanting of the Hare Krishna mantra is enacted from the spiritual platform and thus this sound vibration surpasses all lower strata of consciouness -… — A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The decision to speak out is the vocation and lifelong peril by which the intellectual must live. — Kay Boyle
In my twenties, my pleasures tended to be physical. In my thirties, my pleasures tended to be intellectual. I can't say which was more exquisite. — Steve Kangas
I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional atheist whose fervor is mostly due to a painful act of liberation from the fetters… — Albert Einstein
Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic un-interestingness as an intellectual position. Where was the ingenuity, the ambiguity, the humanity of… — John Updike

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