Intellectual Quotes

1909 Intellectual quotes by 1296 unique authors

How essential it is in youth to acquire some intellectual or artistic tastes, in order to furnish the mind, to be able to live inside… — William Lyon Phelps
I do my intellectual work inside myself, and once I am with my fellow creatures it is more or less a matter of indifference to… — Marcel Proust
Intellectual ''work'' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward. — Mark Twain
The value of an idea has nothing whatsoever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it. Indeed, the probabilities are that the… — Oscar Wilde
Persons of slender intellectual stamina dread competition, as dwarfs are afraid of being run over in the street. — William Hazlitt
I write out of my intellectual experience. — Tom Stoppard
The best aphorisms are.... portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling. They furnish the largest amount of intellectual stimulus and nutriment in the… — William Rounseville Alger
Faith journeys are never simply intellectual exercises. — Timothy Keller
There is no intellectual road to God...No, we need God to wake us up to our need of a Savior. — Alistair Begg
The audience is a very curious animal. It is shrewd rather than intelligent. Its mental capacity is less than that of its most intellectual members. — W. Somerset Maugham
Commonplaces are the tramways of intellectual transportation. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
The intellectual treatment of any datum, any experience, any subject, is determined by the nature of our questions, and only carried out in the answers. — Susanne Katherina Langer
... it is a welcome symptom in an age which is commonly denounced as materialistic, that it makes heroes of men whose goals lie wholly… — Albert Einstein
Institutional psychiatry is a continuation of the Inquisition. All that has really changed is the vocabulary and the social style. The vocabulary conforms to the… — Thomas Szasz
Tolerance is an admirable intellectual gift; but it is of little worth in politics. — Woodrow Wilson
Life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his senses can afford. — Samuel Johnson
There are big men, men of intellect, intellectual men, men of talent and men of action; but the great man is difficult to find, and… — Margot Asquith
It is a difficult matter for man to realize the extreme importance of social discriminations which seem outwardly insignificant but which produce in woman moral… — Simone de Beauvoir
I'd never met a woman I considered as intelligent as me. That sounds bigheaded, but every woman I met was either a dolly-chick, or a… — John Lennon
The intellectual is, quite simply, a human being who has a pencil in his or her hand when reading a book. — George Steiner
The truth, I am convinced, is that there is no longer a poetical audience among the higher class of minds, that moral, political, and physical… — Thomas Love Peacock
The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by… — Walter Pater
What we now call "finance" is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love. — Robert Graves
A book should have an intellectual shape and a heft that comes with dealing with a primary subject. — William Safire
Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in 19th-century… — Lillian Hellman

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