Intellectual Quotes

1909 Intellectual quotes by 1296 unique authors

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana. — Bill Gates
We can't all work in the inner city. And, I don't even think that it is incumbent upon an African-American intellectual to be concerned in… — Henry Louis Gates
It's very lonely being a prominent black intellectual at an institution where you're the only prominent black intellectual. That was the model that was followed… — Henry Louis Gates
Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself. — Edward Gibbon
I am politically incorrect, that's true. Political correctness to me is just intellectual terrorism. I find that really scary, and I won't be intimidated into… — Mel Gibson
The color of truth is gray. — Andre Gide
Nobody until very recently would have thought that their husband was supposed to be their best friend, confidante, intellectual soul mate, co-parent, inspiration. — Elizabeth Gilbert
I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much. — Newt Gingrich
Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice. — George Gissing
Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now it's really bad because everything we've done is de-humanizing education. It's destroying… — William Glasser
What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher. — William Glasser
To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education. — William Glasser
If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To the indefinite, uncertain mind of the American radical the most contradictory ideas and methods are possible. The result is a sad chaos in the… — Emma Goldman
Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human… — Stephen Jay Gould
It strikes me as very strange that whereas Tennyson could support most of Mr. Buckley's propositions about free trade, and the private sector, and private… — Germaine Greer
Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary… — Walter Gropius
Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence. — David Ben-Gurion
My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger. — Billy Connolly
We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need… — Calvin Coolidge
Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can be more fully… — Nicolaus Copernicus
Somewhere between the intellectual idea of why we're attracted to certain things and the pragmatic reality is some form of ever-evolving truth. — Billy Corgan
Cynicism is intellectual treason. — Norman Cousins
A lot of powerful people in Washington may think it's a crazy-leftist-fringe position to think the intellectual authors of a torture regime should be investigated… — John Cusack
Intellectual passion drives out sensuality. — Leonardo da Vinci

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