Intellectual Quotes

1909 Intellectual quotes by 1296 unique authors

I think that a failure of statistical thinking is the major intellectual shortcoming of our universities, journalism and intellectual culture. — Steven Pinker
By exploring the political and moral colorings of discoveries about what makes us tick, we can have a more honest science and a less fearful… — Steven Pinker
There's guilt about our treatment of native peoples in modern intellectual life, and an unwillingness to acknowledge there could be anything good about Western culture. — Steven Pinker
Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions. — Robert M. Pirsig
The classic rule of thumb is that if you are an intellectual ideological magazine, you do better in opposition than you do if your views… — John Podhoretz
I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it. — Edgar Allan Poe
I had to satisfy the action fans, the romantic fans, the intellectual fans. It was a terrific burden. — Sidney Poitier
A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring. — Alexander Pope
Now, I'm not saying I'm fashionable, but there are sociological interests that matter to me, things that are theoretical, political, intellectual and also concerned with… — Miuccia Prada
Women often don't want to admit that they like fashion. And yet fashion enthralls everyone, from the taxi driver to the mega-intellectual. I have often… — Miuccia Prada
I have spent a good part of my life showing what an intellectual bubble the Left lives in. — Dennis Prager
I'm strictly for Stevenson. I don't dig the intellectual bit, but I'm telling you, man, he knows the most. — Elvis Presley
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way. — Marcel Proust
What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other. — Manuel Puig
It is only through the opposition of ideas that we can learn to be self-critical, to work towards intellectual humility. — Tariq Ramadan
Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and… — Tariq Ramadan
Tunisia's responsibility, and especially that of its political and intellectual elites, is enormous. All the protagonists of the nation's social, cultural, economic and political life… — Tariq Ramadan
My father is an intellectual and physical man, which is a rather unusual combination. He's great. As he brought up me and my brothers and… — Christopher Reeve
I laugh a lot in horror films. If I'm scared in a horror film, I try to think about what's scaring me... particularly, if it's… — Jason Reitman
One of my books is a hallucinogen, an aphrodisiac, a mood elevator, an intellectual garage door opener, and a metaphysical trash compactor. They'll do everything… — Tom Robbins
The brutal truth is, we're scarcely 'educating' children at all. Even if you overlook the guilt, fear, bigotry, and dangerous anti-intellectual flapdoodle being funneled into… — Tom Robbins
No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort. — Theodore Roosevelt
The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual… — John Ruskin
The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. — Bertrand Russell
God is back and Europe as a whole still doesn't get it. It is our biggest single collective cultural and intellectual blind spot. — Jonathan Sacks

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