Intellectual Quotes

1909 Intellectual quotes by 1296 unique authors

There are two principles on which all men of intellectual integrity and good will can agree, as a 'basic minimum,' as a precondition of any… — Ayn Rand
It is never just disagreement but always intellectual dishonesty that is the apologist's worst enemy. And its apprentice is ignorance. — Criss Jami
Hitler appeared, a man with limited intellectual abilities and unfit for any useful work, bursting with envy and bitterness against all whom circumstance and nature… — Albert Einstein
If instituted, the TPP's IP regime would trample over individual rights and free expression, as well as ride roughshod over the intellectual and creative commons.… — Julian Assange
What is enthralling and illuminating about The Metaphysical Club is its portraits of individuals and their milieus. Menand is wonderfully deft at evoking a climate… — George Scialabba
Whether or not it is ultimately the best of all conceivable scripts for Korean, Hangeul must unquestionably rank as one of the great intellectual achievements… — Geoffrey Sampson
Women while in college ought to have the broadest possible education. This college education should be the same as men's, not only because there is… — M. Carey Thomas
Every intellectual effort sets us apart from the commonplace, and leads us by hidden and difficult paths to secluded spots where we find ourselves amid… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
In their field they [mathematicians] do what we ought to be doing in ours. Therein lies the significant lesson ... of their existence. They are… — Robert Musil
the restricting of intellectual and spiritual needs to the mania of progress — Robert Musil
With respect to the authority of great names, it should be remembered that he alone deserves to have any weight and influence with posterity, who… — Charles Caleb Colton
Some men of a secluded and studious life, have sent forth from their closet or their cloister, rays of intellectual light that have agitated courts,… — Charles Caleb Colton
A high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male. — Charles Caleb Colton
The news today about 'Atomic bombs' is so horrifying one is stunned. The utter folly of these lunatic physicists to consent to do such work… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Curiosity, which may or may not eventuate in something useful, is probably the most outstanding characteristic of modern thinking ... Institutions of learning should be… — Abraham Flexner
In politics continental Europe was infantile - horrifying. What America lacked, for all its political stability, was the capacity to enjoy intellectual pleasures as though… — Saul Bellow
Private property has made us so stupid and partial that an object is only ours when we have it, when it exists for us as… — Karl Marx
And what if all of animated nature Be but organic harps diversely framed, That tremble into thought, as o'er them sweeps, Plastic and vast, one… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
It has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not of themselves characterize… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The indispensible judicial requisite is intellectual humility. — Felix Frankfurter
There are three intellectual pursuits, and, so far as I am aware, only three, in which human beings have performed major feats before the age… — George Steiner
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance. — Anatole France
When I was a seminarian, I was dazzled by a girl I met at an uncle's wedding. I was surprised by her beauty, her intellectual… — Pope Francis
Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it. — Benjamin Franklin
It was extremely important to show that Wilde's sexuality was not just some intellectual idea. It was real, and it was about the human body.… — Stephen Fry

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