Intellectual Quotes
1909 Intellectual quotes by 1296 unique authors
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Creeds and castes, and all forms of intellectual and emotional grouping, belong to the past.
— Herbert Read
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In business, there's a constant focus on developing strategies, reviewing executive performance against those strategies each year, engaging with opposing or different points of view,…
— Jeff Raikes
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The reason a person is in a particular state of mind is primarily because of attraction and aversion. Attraction and aversion cause us to format…
— Frederick Lenz
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We're losing track of the vastness of the potential for computer science. We really have to revive the beautiful intellectual joy of it, as opposed…
— Jaron Lanier
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We were proposing, in a sense, that the rest of the world be made safe for American ideas, as they adopted intellectual property rights that…
— Jeffrey Sachs
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I'm not known for my intellectual range and tricks have been played on me.
— William Sanderson
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Actually, I've never thought myself as being a particularly hard worker. I've always worked, and I guess my mind is busy all the time. I've…
— Sam Wyly
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There is a vast difference - a constitutional difference-between restrictions imposed by the state which prohibit the intellectual commingling of students, and the refusal of…
— Fred M. Vinson
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Psychic development is a necessary skill in leading a successful and happy life. Your intellectual processes and your senses don't give you enough information to…
— Frederick Lenz
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Notwithstanding the fact that the most innovative and progressive space we've seen - the Internet - has been the place where intellectual property has been…
— Lawrence Lessig
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It is imperfection - not perfection - that is the end result of the program written into that formidably complex engine that is the human…
— Rita Levi-Montalcini
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Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage - not intellectual courage, but just plain…
— Walter Lord
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The way I think of it, economics and ecology occupy two intellectual silos, isolated from each other. Even when they do take each other into…
— Charles C. Mann
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I don't have a type. But one thing I can say from my dating experience is that a physical attraction will only take you so…
— Jesse Metcalfe
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I think you can be athletic and intellectual at the same time.
— Joe Manganiello
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As a writer, I am an intellectual. I believe in the ideals of the Enlightenment, I believe in the written word, in dialogue and in…
— Henning Mankell
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The intellectual is engage-he is pledged, committed, enlisted. What everyone else is willing to admit, namely that ideas and abstractions are of signal importance in…
— Richard Hofstadter
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There can be no doubt that distrust of words is less harmful than unwarranted trust in them. Besides, to distrust words, and indict them for…
— Vaclav Havel
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Love isn't intellectual - it's visceral.
— Kelly McGillis
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The universe was a vast machine yesterday, it is a hologram today. Who knows what intellectual rattle we'll be shaking tomorrow.
— R. D. Laing
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In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity -- or, which is just as satisfying, unpopularity -- by being opinionated rather than by…
— A. N. Wilson
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Television watching does reduce reading and often encroaches on homework. Much of it is admittedly the intellectual equivalent of junk food. But in some respects,…
— Edward Hirsch
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I was not naturally intellectual, but somebody whose interest had to be whetted, still the case sadly.
— Jeremy Irons
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Prayer is not a way to get what we want to happen, like the remote control that comes with the television set. I think that…
— Rachel Naomi Remen
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The humorist who invented trial by jury played a colossal practical joke upon the world, but since we have the system we ought to try…
— Mark Twain
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