Intellectual Quotes

1909 Intellectual quotes by 1296 unique authors

Did I say "republic?" By God, yes, I said "republic!" Long live the glorious republic of the United States of America. Damn democracy. It is… — Westbrook Pegler
Religions, of course, have their own demanding intellectual traditions, as Jesuits and Talmudic scholars might attest.... But, in its less rigorous, popular forms, religion is… — Wendy Kaminer
Space is an environment of emptiness. It offers no possibility for natural adaptation to any living organism - and particularly not to the highly sophisticated… — Hubertus Strughold
The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective. — Manuel Puig
Persecution in intellectual countries produces a superficial conformity, but also underneath an intense, incessant, implacable doubt. — Walter Bagehot
The restriction of knowledge to an elite group destroys the spirit of the society and leads to its intellectual impoverishment. — Albert Einstein
I do not ... reject the use of statistics in medicine, but I condemn not trying to get beyond them and believing in statistics as… — Claude Bernard
A typical mathematician does not actively try to be useful. Individual mathematicians are motivated primarily by a subtle mixture of ambition and intellectual curiosity, and… — Timothy Gowers
For each of us there is a set limit to our intellectual powers which we cannot pass. — Rene Descartes
I think it indisputable that the distance between the intellectual faculties of different men is greater than that between the same faculties in some men… — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
The longer I am in this work, the more I realize that intellectual struggles are merely the hazardous waste of life, blocking the heart from… — Ravi Zacharias
I consider it important, indeed urgently necessary, for intellectual workers to get together, both to protect their own economic status and, also, generally speaking, to… — Albert Einstein
Words of divine consciousness: moral exaltation; lasting feelings of elevation, elation, joy; a quickening of the moral sense, which strikes one as more important than… — Yann Martel
The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A mind does not receive truth as a chest receives jewels that are put into it, but as the stomach takes up food into the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I don't hate anybody. The Winklevi aren't suing me for intellectual property theft. They're suing me because for the first time in their lives, the… — Mark Zuckerberg
The violent, antirationalistic impulse in Western countries is reacting to an intellectual state of affairs in which all thinking has become strategy; this impulse shows… — Peter Sloterdijk
I have a lot of trouble understanding all the detail of finance and administration - but if you combine intellectual and professional capacity with a… — Evo Morales
You know, sometimes I don't understand what's wrong with us. This is just about the most creative and imaginative country on earth—and yet sometimes we… — Boris Johnson
Thus, in its relation to Christianity, intelligent design should be viewed as a ground-clearing operation that gets rid of the intellectual rubbish that for generations… — William A. Dembski
It is exceptional that one should be able to acquire the understanding of a process without having previously acquired a deep familiarity with running it,… — John von Neumann
I dislike frontiers, political or intellectual, and I find that ignoring them is an essential catalyst for creative thought. Ideas should flow without hindrance in… — Michael Atiyah
Love makes intellectual pretzels of us all. — Sarah Bird
The ideological are individuals ultimately swamped by the complexities of modern life and political and economic relations; they have deliberately attached themselves to some caricatural… — Kenny Smith
[On Cantor's work:] The finest product of mathematical genius and one of the supreme achievements of purely intellectual human activity. — David Hilbert

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