Intellectual Quotes

1909 Intellectual quotes by 1296 unique authors

What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life. — Thomas Mann
I need three million dollars to make a low-budget, intellectual, artistic, exciting, erotic movie with a great soundtrack. — Ray Manzarek
I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate… — Groucho Marx
The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is… — Karl Marx
Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public. — George McGovern
For people who know McQueen, there is always an underlying message. It's usually only the intellectual ones who understand what's going on in what I… — Alexander McQueen
The more we can do to support and promulgate the intellectual traditions of the Abrahamic faiths - of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - the better… — Jon Meacham
Extremists often derive their inspiration from literal interpretations of texts that should rightly be read not as Associated Press reports from the ancient world, but… — Jon Meacham
I like intellectual journeys. — Christopher Meloni
In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny. — John Stuart Mill
No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently. — Agnes de Mille
Hackers are breaking the systems for profit. Before, it was about intellectual curiosity and pursuit of knowledge and thrill, and now hacking is big business. — Kevin Mitnick
I was addicted to hacking, more for the intellectual challenge, the curiosity, the seduction of adventure; not for stealing, or causing damage or writing computer… — Kevin Mitnick
I don't consider myself an intellectual. And this is not one of my aims. But I admire intellectual people. — Marilyn Monroe
When I start writing songs and it turns into an overly belabored intellectual process, I just throw it out. — Alanis Morissette
Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most… — Christopher Morley
It's been mentioned or suggested that Paradise will not be well studied, because it's about this unimportant intellectual topic, which is religion. — Toni Morrison
There is nothing wrong with intellectual differences flowing from freedom of thought as long as such differences remain confined to intellectual debates. — Pervez Musharraf
Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention. — Nathan Myhrvold
If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris. — V.S. Naipaul
People recognize intellectual property the same way they recognize real estate. People understand what property is. But it's a new kind of property, and so… — Michael Nesmith
The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time. — George Orwell
The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style… — Camille Paglia
What has been forgotten is that there were major intellectual breakthroughs in the 1960s, thanks to North American writers of an older generation. There was… — Camille Paglia
Believe me, the intellectual revolution is going on, and that has to come first before you see the political changes. That's where I'm very optimistic. — Ron Paul

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