Intellectual Quotes

1909 Intellectual quotes by 1296 unique authors

It smells terrible in here.' Well, what do you expect? The human body, when confined, produces certain odors which we tend to forget in this… — John Kennedy Toole
We cannot know the consequences of suppressing a child's spontaneity when he is just beginning to be active. We may even suffocate life itself. That… — Maria Montessori
Reading is the royal road to intellectual eminence...Truly good books are more than mines to those who can understand them. They are the breathings of… — William Ellery Channing
The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pendants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual,… — Ursula K. Le Guin
If God existed (a question concerning which Jubal maintained a meticulous intellectual neutrality) and if He desired to be worshiped (a proposition which Jubal found… — Robert A. Heinlein
It's always gratifying to share a hobby with a friend, and pining for erstwhile suitors falls into that category. In the months to come, Libby… — Patricia Marx
A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today. The Western world has lost its… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
In those days he really didn't know what he was talking about; that is to say, he was a young jailkid all hung-up on the… — Jack Kerouac
To seek "causes" of poverty in this way is to enter an intellectual dead end because poverty has no causes. Only prosperity has causes. — Jane Jacobs
There weren't any curtains in the windows, and the books that didn't fit into the bookshelf lay piled on the floor like a bunch of… — Haruki Murakami
Curiosity, especially intellectual inquisitiveness, is what separates the truly alive from those who are merely going through the motions. — Tom Robbins
Widespread intellectual and moral docility may be convenient for leaders in the short term, but it is suicidal for nations in the long term. One… — Carl Sagan
I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living,… — Martha Graham
Love without courage and wisdom is sentimentality, as with the ordinary church member. Courage without love and wisdom is foolhardiness, as with the ordinary soldier.… — Ammon Hennacy
According to the most common interpretation of biblical prophecy, Jesus will return only after things have gone horribly awry. Imagine the consequences if any significant… — Sam Harris
In the year 2006, a person can have sufficient intellectual and material resources to build a nuclear bomb and still believe that he will get… — Sam Harris
Faith is indeed intellectual; it involves an apprehension of certain things as facts; and vain is the modern effort to divorce faith from knowledge. But… — John Gresham Machen
Mental patterns do not originate out of inorganic nature. They originate out of society, which originates out of inorganic nature. And, as anthropologists know so… — Robert M. Pirsig
Everyone carries a part of society on his shoulders; no one is relieved of his share of responsibility by others. And no one can find… — Ludwig von Mises
Ruins stood for what was lost, and yet there were beautiful-peaceful, historic, intellectual. Not tragic or regrettable. Lena tried to keep hers that way too,… — Ann Brashares
My pacifism is an instinctive feeling, a feeling that possesses me because the murder of men is disgusting. My attitude is not derived from any… — Albert Einstein
When you go to church you are really listening-in to the secret wireless from out friends: that is why the enemy is so anxious to… — C.S. Lewis
Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can't be taken… — Dan Barker
Intellectual freedom depends upon material things. — Virginia Woolf
Karma Repair Kit Items 1-4. 1.Get enough food to eat, and eat it. 2.Find a place to sleep where it is quiet, and sleep there.… — Richard Brautigan

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