Intellectual Quotes

1909 Intellectual quotes by 1296 unique authors

The forces that are driving mankind toward unity and peace are deep-seated and powerful. They are material and natural, as well as moral and intellectual. — Arthur Henderson
Fashion should be fun. It shouldn't be labelled 'intellectual.' — Carolina Herrera
When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people. — Abraham Joshua Heschel
You can do the best research and be making the strongest intellectual argument, but if readers don't get past the third paragraph you've wasted your… — Carl Hiaasen
A good day is one where I can not just read a book, but write a review of it. Maybe today I'll be able to… — Christopher Hitchens
Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts,… — Christopher Hitchens
All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called 'Facts'. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain. — Thomas Hobbes
It is ironic that the United States should have been founded by intellectuals, for throughout most of our political history, the intellectual has been for… — Richard Hofstadter
The intellect is a cold thing and a merely intellectual idea will never stimulate thought in the same manner that a spiritual idea does. — Ernest Holmes
Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all… — Herbert Hoover
Always be smarter than the people who hire you. — Lena Horne
Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause. — Victor Hugo
The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness. — Robert M. Hutchins
An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex. — Aldous Huxley
The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right… — Thomas Huxley
To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it… — Henry James
When you're watching Psycho, there' s that moment when you have a visceral reaction to watching someone being stabbed. And then you have the intellectual… — Penn Jillette
Think 100 times before you take a decision, But once that decision is taken, stand by it as one man. — Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful, that's what matters to… — Steve Jobs
This revolution, the information revoultion, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy. It's very crude today, yet… — Steve Jobs
Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. — Janis Joplin
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play. — Immanuel Kant
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also. — Carl Jung
Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function. — Garrison Keillor
People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history. — Caroline Kennedy

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