Intellectual Quotes

1909 Intellectual quotes by 1296 unique authors

No thought, no idea, can possibly be conveyed as an idea from one person to another. When it is told it is to the one… — John Dewey
O God, teach me to be satisfied with my own helplessness in the spiritual life. Teach me to be content with Your grace that comes… — Thomas Merton
These esoteric, intellectual debates-I want them to come to New Jersey and sit across from the widows and the orphans and have that conversation, — Chris Christie
Haitians weren't screwed-up, but everything political, intellectual, and material around them is. — P.J. O'Rourke
The task of the intellectual is not one of blending into the opaque consciousness of the tumultuous mob around him, his voice drowned in a… — Sanusi Lamido Sanusi
When a person responds emotionally to intellectual things, or emotionally only to traditional emotional things - I find that an interesting break between myself and… — Elizabeth Moon
The proper method for hastening the decay of error, is not, by brute force, or by regulation which is one of the classes of force,… — William Godwin
I'm fond of observing how obsession is the most durable form of intellectual capital. — Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Why should we subsidize intellectual curiosity? — Simon Hoggart
I am an artist, you understand? For me, a picture is like poetry. When you make art, this is not coming from an intellectual place.… — Alejandro Jodorowsky
Capitalist agricultural production prevents the return to the soil of its elements consumed by man in the form of food and clothing; it therefore violates… — Karl Marx
The gift of the Holy Ghost...quicken s all the intellectual faculties. — Parley P. Pratt
I want to read a lot of books and not live lazily. I want to become intellectual. — Minzy
Karl Popper once advised a student that if he wanted to reap intellectual fame, he should write endless pages of obscure, high-flown prose that would… — Anthony de Jasay
Of all the virtues related to intellectual functioning, the most passive is the virtue of knowing the right answer. Knowing the right answer requires no… — Eleanor Duckworth
Bill Gates can't control a high-level-energy dog, because his energy is very low, very calm. Very intellectual. A dog doesn't see that as leadership. — Cesar Millan
To be an intellectual really means to speak a truth that allows suffering to speak. — Cornel West
The fact is, every thinker, every philosopher, the moment he is forced to abandon his one-sided intellectual occupation by practical necessity, immediately returns to the… — Ernst Mach
We define religion as the assumption that life has meaning. Religion, or lack of it, is shown not in some intellectual or verbal formulations but… — Rollo May
Wisdom is the most-sought intellectual degree whose subjects are regularly learned throughout life with an open mind in an open university called life and taught… — Unknown Author
The intellectual property situation is bad and getting worse. To be a programmer, it requires that you understand as much law as you do technology. — Eric Allman
One might say the computer is being used to program the child. In my vision, the child programs the computer, and in doing so, both… — Seymour Papert
A theoretical physicist can spend his entire lifetime missing the intellectual challenge of experimental work, experiencing none of the thrills and dangers - the overhead… — Leon M. Lederman
Liberalism provided me with an intellectual satisfaction that I never found in fundamentalism. I became so enamored of the insights of liberalism that I almost… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The professional military mind is by necessity an inferior and unimaginative mind; no man of high intellectual quality would willingly imprison his gifts in such… — H.G. Wells

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