Intellectual Quotes

1909 Intellectual quotes by 1296 unique authors

Intellectual prowess has its limitations. Thus, do not limit the scope of your learning to the realm of the intellect. — Mata Amritanandamayi
The more intellectual you are, the more egoistic you are, and surrendering becomes more difficult. — Mata Amritanandamayi
Peace is not a product of an intellectual exercise. It is an inner blossoming that occurs with meditation. — Mata Amritanandamayi
But nothing ever put 'Hoppy' in the shade. No one could fail to recognize in the little figure... the authentic gold of intellectual inspiration, the… — Joseph Needham
Bad television is three things: a bullet train to a morally bankrupt youth, a slow spiral into an intellectual void, and of course, a complete… — Dennis Miller
The more modest its intellectual ballast, the more exclusively it takes into consideration the emotions of the masses, the more effective [propaganda] will be. — Adolf Hitler
The extreme geniality of San Francisco's economic, intellectual and political climate makes it the most varied and challenging city in the United States. — James A. Michener
Envy ... is one form of a vice, partly moral, partly intellectual, which consists in seeing things never in themselves but only in their relations. — Bertrand Russell
The worst thing that can happen to an artist is to be subsidized by the state. It leads to an intellectual and artistic castration. — Mario Vargas Llosa
Decisive inventions and discoveries always are initiated by an intellectual or moral stimulus as their actual motivating force, but, usually, the final impetus to human… — Stefan Zweig
There's a big anti-intellectual strain in the American south, and there always has been. We're not big on thought. — Donna Tartt
English is such a deliciously complex and undisciplined language, we can bend, fuse, distort words to all our purposes. We give old words new meanings,… — Willard Gaylin
Some men tend to cling to old intellectual excitements, just as some belles, when they are old ladies, still cling to the fashions and coiffures… — Jane Jacobs
The most dangerous aspect of present-day life is the dissolution of the feeling of individual responsibility. Mass solitude has done away with any difference between… — Eugenio Montale
It wasn't idealism that made me, from the beginning, want a more secure and rational society. It was an intellectual judgment, to which I still… — Raymond Williams
I wanted to do something far from my intellectual and physical home, so I went to live in Beijing for eight months and took Mandarin… — Mira Sorvino
George Washington and Abraham Lincoln were gay, just for starters. They didn't have a name for it, but their primary affections and intellectual attractions were… — Larry Kramer
It was always said that the big distinction between the French and the English is that the English are intelligent and the French are intellectual. — Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking
I suppose I've always carried what is regarded as a bit of unnecessary baggage in Britain. I've always carried the charge that I am an… — Chris Patten
To be black and an intellectual in America is to live in a box. On the box is a label, not of my own choosing. — Stephen L. Carter
Being able to provoke a different point of view to the standard current ideological or political perspective as played out in conventional newspaper or radio… — Susie Orbach
There is much of economic theory which is pursued for no better reason than its intellectual attraction; it is a good game. We have no… — Sir John Richard Hicks
I do have a peripatetic and active intellectual curiosity. — Guy Kawasaki
All observations point to the fact that the intellectual woman is masculinized; in her, warm, intuitive knowledge has yielded to cold unproductive thinking. — Helene Deutsch
People should not expect the state to protect them from fraudsters. If we do, we get into the habit of neglecting our own powers of… — Julian Baggini

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