Intellectual Quotes

1909 Intellectual quotes by 1296 unique authors

Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity. — John F. Kennedy
The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward. — John Maynard Keynes
The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker… — Soren Kierkegaard
I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats.… — Jeane Kirkpatrick
High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and… — Henry A. Kissinger
I think one of the important evolutions is that we no longer feel compulsively the need to argue, or to justify things on a kind… — Rem Koolhaas
If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered. — Stanley Kubrick
My basic approach to interviewing is to ask the basic questions that might even sound naive, or not intellectual. Sometimes when you ask the simple… — Brian Lamb
Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on… — Lewis H. Lapham
The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters. — Christopher Lasch
Intellectual property is an important legal and cultural issue. Society as a whole has complex issues to face here: private ownership vs. open source, and… — Tim Berners-Lee
If Socialism can only be realized when the intellectual development of all the people permits it, then we shall not see Socialism for at least… — Vladimir Lenin
I think music is the most phenomenal platform for intellectual thought. — Annie Lennox
The New England Journal of Medicine reports that 9 out of 10 doctors agree that 1 out of 10 doctors is an idiot. — Jay Leno
I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty. — Claude Levi-Strauss
In the end, there's something of the puritan work ethic about me that roles really must sustain me on an intellectual level. — Damian Lewis
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all. — Abraham Lincoln
I found university a little dispiriting. I thought I would enter the great halls of Plato, but instead I entered the halls of an intellectual… — Bjorn Lomborg
The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of… — Audre Lorde
My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind, and behold,… — Anne Sullivan Macy
Only through the conscious action of the working masses in city and country can it be brought to life, only through the people's highest intellectual… — Rosa Luxemburg
Some song ideas absolutely require a kind of rigid discipline, and others require absolute chaotic abandon. The form is only valid if you know how… — John Lydon
Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business - everything. I think you could have an intellectual ability, but if you can sharpen… — David Lynch
All this is applicable to the intellectual faculties of man. There is a considerable difference between one person and another as regards these faculties, as… — Maimonides

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