Intellectual Quotes

1909 Intellectual quotes by 1296 unique authors

The best causes tend to attract to their support the worst arguments, which seems to be equally true in the intellectual and in the moral… — Ronald Fisher
It indicates a person who has not only good manners but who possesses a sense of balance, a sure mastery of himself, a moral discipline… — Antonio Gramsci
A culture that supports the dominance of social values over biological values is an absolutely superior culture to one that does not, and a culture… — Robert M. Pirsig
And rural nature is full of the same quickening spirit-it is, in fact, the exhaustless mine from which the poet and the painter have brought… — Thomas Cole
There was no intellectual movement in American history called social Darwinism. The people who were supposedly the leaders of the social Darwinist movement never embraced… — Jonah Goldberg
The Americans are completely stupid. The intellectual level in any single European country is higher than in America. — Michel Houellebecq
My father came from an intellectual and studious avenue as opposed to a brawler's avenue. So I had to go further afield and I brought… — Tom Hardy
The intellectual controls the spiritual, the animal respects the natural. — Ray Davies
Every young writer, I imagine, has their first intellectual magazine, whose essays and articles are devoured all the more greedily for being slightly over one's… — Ross Douthat
What is an intellectual? In general, someone seriously devoted to what used to be called the “life of the mind”: thinking pursued not instrumentally, for… — Gary Gutting
Good politicians need not be intellectuals, but they should have intellectual lives. — Gary Gutting
MindSparks has produced some of the best materials on the market for teaching students how to read and write history with intellectual integrity and depth.… — Sam Wineburg
Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap. — Alan Watts
There is something mysteriously powerful that can happen when young, inchoate minds come into contact with older and more worldly ones in a spirit of… — Will Self
You need a prince to make a town in an intellectual sense. Developers want to make money. If they cared about architecture, they'd become architects.… — Leon Krier
Even the wisest of mankind cannot live by reason alone; pure arrogant reason, denying the claims of prejudice (which commonly are also the claims of… — Russell Kirk
I knew there were no such things as death cooties. Unfortunately, that's an intellectual fact. And death cooties are an emotional reality. — Janet Evanovich
There is no firm reason to anticipate that the intellectual capacities of peoples geographically separated in their evolution should prove to have evolved identically. Our… — James D. Watson
Our moral virtues benefit mainly other people; intellectual virtues, on the other hand, benefit primarily ourselves; therefore the former make us universally popular, the latter… — Arthur Schopenhauer
An intellectual may be interested in ideas and policies for their own sake, but a politician's interest is exclusively in the question of whether an… — Michael Ignatieff
Christianity is not a purely intellectual, internal faith. It can only be lived in community. — Philip Yancey
Fiction seems to be more effective at changing beliefs than nonfiction, which is designed to persuade through argument and evidence. Studies show that when we… — Jonathan Gottschall
Emotions are the key to many aspects of life. They are precisely the elements that make human beings human. I think the fact that emotions… — Bill Viola
The glory of the disposition that stops to consider stimuli rather than rushing to engage with them is its long association with intellectual and artistic… — Susan Cain
The knowledge of this marvelous period has made faith far easier from an intellectual standpoint, and has enabled us to be more patient in waiting… — Wilfred Grenfell

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