Intellectual Quotes

1909 Intellectual quotes by 1296 unique authors

Any serious man or woman in search of spiritual ideas will find a surprising challenge and an authentic source of inspiration and intellectual nourishment in… — Jacob Needleman
The social model of the Bolsheviks failed, as will any model that denies individual rights, intellectual freedom, and freedom of competing political parties. Without these… — Mikhail Gorbachev
Even now, the irony that so non-intellectual a man should choose to engage the Soviet Union on the battlefield of ideas has eluded most commentators… — Richard Perle
Take the initiative. Go to work, and above all co-operate and don't hold back on one another or try to gain at the expense of… — R. Buckminster Fuller
So, ultimately, in order to understand nature it may be necessary to have a deeper understanding of mathematical relationships. But the real reason is that… — Richard P. Feynman
Intellectual ascent to correct doctrine is not salvation — Matt Chandler
The flowering of human society depends on two factors: the intellectual power of outstanding men to conceive sound social and economic theories, and the ability… — Ludwig von Mises
The older I get, the more I realize the importance of exercising the various dimensions of my body, soul, mind, and heart. Taken together, these… — Robert Fulghum
The American nation, in its march onward and upward, can not publicly choke the intellectual and political activity of half its citizens by narrow statutes. — Victoria Woodhull
Football allows the intellectual part of my brain to evolve, but it allows the emotional part to remain unchanged. It has a liberal cerebellum and… — Chuck Klosterman
One must recently have lived on or close to a college campus to have a vivid intimation of what has happened. It is there that… — William F. Buckley, Jr.
I grew up in Rome, in actually what I would say was a liberal, open-minded family. My father was an architect and my mother was… — Frida Giannini
The philosophical implication of race-thinking is that by offering us the mystery of heredity as an explanation, it diverts our attention from the social and… — Jacques Barzun
She tended to be impatient with that sort of intellectual who, for all his brilliance, has never been able to arrive at the simple conclusion… — Carolyn Kizer
My mother was a first-grade teacher, so I credit her with this lifelong intellectual curiosity I have, and love of reading and learning. — Chesley Sullenberger
The intellectual is not defined by professional group and type of occupation. Nor are good upbringing and a good family enough in themselves to produce… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
A good reliable set of bowels is worth more to a man than any quantity of brains. — Josh Billings
The elimination of the will altogether and the switching off of the emotions all and sundry, is tantamount to the elimination of reason: intellectual castration. — Friedrich Nietzsche
True religion is slow in growth, and, when once planted, is difficult of dislodgement; but its intellectual counterfeit has no root in itself: it springs… — John Henry Newman
Whereas you have someone like Houdini, who works really, really hard to get really, really famous, and then has actual intellectual ideas that he puts… — Penn Jillette
The proper motto is not Be good, sweet maid, and let who can be clever, but Be good sweet maid, and don't forget that this… — C.S. Lewis
Health begins with firmness in the body, deepens to emotional stability, then leads to intellectual clarity, wisdom and finally the unveiling of the soul. — B.K.S. Iyengar
Yoga is more than physical. It is cellular, mental, intellectual and spiritual-it involves man in his entire being — B.K.S. Iyengar
May not men earn their bread by intellectual labor? No, the needs of the body must be supplied by the body. — Mahatma Gandhi
Either the human being must suffer and struggle as the price of a more searching vision, or his gaze must be shallow and without intellectual… — Thomas de Quincey

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