Intellectual Quotes

1909 Intellectual quotes by 1296 unique authors

I make one image—though 'make' is not the right word; I let, perhaps, an image be 'made' emotionally in me and then apply to it… — Dylan Thomas
I got very interested in people who had discovered something more significant than ... intellectual, abstract understanding. — Steve Jobs
Studying music encourages self-discipline and diligence, traits that carry over into intellectual pursuits and that lead to effective study and work habits. An association of… — Michael E. DeBakey
Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise. — Jeremiah
He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy. — Robert Moses
If I can't find a theme, I can't make a film anyone else will feel. I can't laugh at intellectual humor. I'm just corny enough… — Walt Disney
There is, therefore, a more perfect intellectual life in the angels. In them the intellect does not proceed to self-knowledge from anything exterior, but knows… — Thomas Aquinas
I began to realize that an intuitive understanding and consciousness was more significant than abstract thinking and intellectual logical analysis. Intuition is a very powerful… — Steve Jobs
Collaboration operates through a process in which the successful intellectual achievements of one person arouse the intellectual passions and enthusiasms of others. — Alexander von Humboldt
This revolution, the information revolution, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy. — Steve Jobs
The highest reach of science is, one may say, an inventive power, a faculty of divination, akin to the highest power exercised in poetry; therefore,… — Matthew Arnold
You have to become that infinite formless creation, which is life, to know it. It cannot be known in an intellectual sense. That is enlightenment. — Frederick Lenz
If a preacher is cultured, gentle, earnest, intellectual, and broadly tolerant, the sheep of God run after him. He, of course, speaks beautifully about Christ,… — C. I. Scofield
At its heart, all intellectual and emotional life is a conversation, and the conversation begins at birth. — Susan Jacoby
All of us were slowly losing that intellectual light that allows you always to tell the similar from the identical, the metaphorical from the real. — Umberto Eco
The human race may be divided into people who love cats and people who hate them; the neutrals being few in numbers, and, for intellectual… — Agnes Repplier
I think comedy has to be an intellectual pursuit. It comes down to logic and analysis. As soon as it becomes emotional, it's not comedy… — Ricky Gervais
I think there are a lot of similarities between writing and music. Music is much more direct and much more emotional and that's the level… — Karl Ove Knausgard
People have been starving for intellectual fodder, but the best way to get people to close their eyes and not say anything is to tell… — Kamasi Washington
Sam Harris fearlessly describes a moral and intellectual emergency precipitated by religious fantasies--misguided beliefs that create suffering, that rationalize violence, that have endangered our nation… — Janna Levin
If there is one subject in this world worthy of being discussed, worthy of being understood, it is the question of intellectual liberty. Without that,… — Robert Green Ingersoll
It is the opposite of ignorance—it is intellectual honesty: to be willing to accept reality and to call things what they are even when it… — Todd Burpo
Painting fulfills a need to be non-intellectual. There are times when we have to get our brains out in our fingers. — Ray Bradbury
I have to really think hard about how to structure sentences, and do more mapping when I sit down to write, so it does impose… — Daniel Alarcon
One of the great intellectual failures of the American intelligence community, and especially the counterterrorism community, is to assume if someone hasn't attacked us, it's… — Michael Scheuer

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