Intellectual Quotes

1909 Intellectual quotes by 1296 unique authors

I think the general public's response to my projects is very strong. You can be an intellectual and say that popularity detracts from architectural quality.… — Moshe Safdie
What I look for when I see a piece of art for the first time is some kind of emotional, intellectual experience, that's a combination… — Cheech Marin
Can I reject everything my brain experienced? Is intellectual understanding any understanding at all? — Jiddu Krishnamurti
There is a progression of understanding vis-a-vis pro football that varies drastically with the factor of distance -- physical, emotional, intellectual and every other way.… — Hunter S. Thompson
Agitation is that part of our intellectual life where vitality results; there ideas are born, breed and bring forth. — George Edward Woodberry
Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties. — James Anthony Froude
Our inner guidance comes to us through our feelings and body wisdom first - not through intellectual understanding. The intellect works best in service to… — Christiane Northrup
I felt I was moving among two groups [literary intellectuals and scientists] comparable in intelligence, identical in race, not grossly different in social origin, earning… — Carrie P Snow
Moral certainty is intellectual immorality — Kedar Joshi
Occasionally, you will be given the chance to be either intellectual or pleasant. Leave being intellectual to others. — Ernie J Zelinski
Religions, themselves, are (intellectual) blasphemies. — Kedar Joshi
Our inner guidance comes to us through our feelings and body wisdom first -- not through intellectual understanding. — Christiane Northrup
Mathematics is not arithmetic. Though mathematics may have arisen from the practices of counting and measuring it really deals with logical reasoning in which theorems-general… — Christopher Zeeman
If we had intellectual vigour enough to ascend from effects to causes, we would explain political, economical and social phenomena less by credit sheets, balance… — Fulton J. Sheen
Studying the universe engages us in something bigger than ourselves. Science tries to describe, in terms we can only grasp intuitively, things that are beyond… — Guy Consolmagno
It is our great collective misfortune that the scientific community made its decisive diagnosis of the climate threat at the precise moment when an elite… — Naomi Klein
GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These, by some occult process of nature, are penetrated and suffused with various degrees of the… — Ambrose Bierce
The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. If you take your children for a picnic… — Bertrand Russell
It's disheartening that animal people criticize societies that enlist the help of actors or organize creative acts like 'I'd rather go naked than wear fur,'… — Adela Popescu
When tempted to be unfaithful, the intellectual woman will try to inspire her husband with indifference, the sentimental woman with hatred, and the passionate woman… — Honore de Balzac
What the intellectual craves above all else is to be taken seriously, to be treated as a decisive force in shaping history. He is far… — Eric Hoffer
I too had thoughts once of being an intellectual, but I found it too difficult. — Albert Schweitzer
Man is an intellectual animal, and therefore an everlasting contradiction to himself. His senses centre in himself, his ideas reach to the ends of the… — William Hazlitt
We are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance. Our intercourse with intellectual nature is necessary; our speculations upon matter are voluntary, and… — Samuel Johnson
Skepticism means, not intellectual doubt alone, but moral doubt. — Thomas Carlyle

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