Intellectual Quotes

1909 Intellectual quotes by 1296 unique authors

I have always had trouble recognizing myself in the features of the intellectual playing his political role according to the screenplay that you are familiar… — Jacques Derrida
I've written important articles on prevention, on the concept of the preventive state, how the law is moving much more in an area of trying… — Alan Dershowitz
Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his… — John Dewey
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts. — Charles Dickens
The computer is a moron. — Peter Drucker
The role of the intellectual, so it is said, is to speak truth to power. Noam Chomsky has dismissed this pious tag on two grounds.… — Terry Eagleton
I don't really get into a big intellectual analysis of why I am going to do a certain script or not. — Clint Eastwood
But Italy is not an intellectual country. On the subway in Tokyo everybody reads. In Italy, they don't. Don't evaluate Italy from the fact that… — Umberto Eco
Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them. — Albert Einstein
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death. — Albert Einstein
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual… — Havelock Ellis
People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big… — Brian Eno
The Internet has been a blessing and a curse. The curse we know: A lot of people appropriating your intellectual property without paying for it.… — Gloria Estefan
I am probably a pseudo-intellectual. — Craig Ferguson
It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong. — Richard P. Feynman
When I won the world championship, in 1972, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, a baseball country, but nobody… — Bobby Fischer
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost. — Gustave Flaubert
You are welcome to your intellectual pastimes and books and art and newspapers; welcome, too, to your bars and your whisky that only makes me… — Knut Hamsun
The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely. — Lorraine Hansberry
The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the… — Sydney J. Harris
There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side. — Vaclav Havel
It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Rules and models destroy genius and art. — William Hazlitt

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