Intellectual Quotes

1909 Intellectual quotes by 1296 unique authors

This was solidarity. The debutante having her toenails pedicured - the housewife buying carrots from a pushcart - the bookkeeper who had wanted to be… — Ayn Rand
I am passionate about everything in my life--first and foremost, passionate about ideas. And that's a dangerous person to be in this society, not just… — Bell Hooks
The means of communication, the irresistible output of the entertainment and information industry carry with them prescribed attitudes and habits, certain intellectual and emotional reactions… — Herbert Marcuse
The reader must come armed , in a serious state of intellectual readiness. This is not easy because he comes to the text alone. In… — Neil Postman
With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word 'intellectual,'… — Ray Bradbury
What I must do is all that concerns me, not what people think. This rule,equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man was such an intellectual he was of almost no use. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Past and future monopolize the poet’s sensory and intellectual faculties, detached from the immediate spectacle. These two philtres become utterly clear the moment one stops… — Andre Breton
Belief, in one of its accepted senses, may consist in a merely intellectual assent, while faith implies such confidence and conviction as will impel to… — James E. Talmage
And that must end us, that must be our cure: To be no more. Sad cure! For who would lose, Though full of pain, this… — John Milton
Films today show only a dream world and have lost touch with the way people really are... In this country, people die at 21. They… — John Cassavetes
no subject of study is more important than reading…all other intellectual powers depend on it. — Jacques Barzun
It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble. An animal perfectly in harmony with… — H.G. Wells
Some lose all mind and become soul,insane. some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual. some lose both and become accepted — Charles Bukowski
As I understand it, I am being paid only for my work in arranging the words; my property is that arrangement. The thoughts in this… — Wendell Berry
[T]he more one is conscious of one's political bias, the more chance one has of acting politically without sacrificing one's aesthetic and intellectual integrity. — George Orwell
The golden rule for understanding spiritually is not intellect, but obedience. If a man wants scientific knowledge, intellectual curiosity is his guide; but if he… — Oswald Chambers
Some are born great, others achieve greatness. — William Shakespeare
To-day we live so cowed under the bombardment of this intellectual artillery(the media) that hardly anyone can attain to the inward detachment that is required… — Oswald Spengler
What then is the intellectual advantage of civilization over primitive savagery? It is not necessarily that each civilized man has more knowledge but that he… — Thomas Sowell
The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries. — David Rockefeller
Where questions of religion are concerned, people are guilty of every possible sort of dishonesty and intellectual misdemeanor. — Sigmund Freud
There is nothing anti-intellectual in the leap of faith, for faith is not believing without proof but trusting without reservation. — William Sloane Coffin
Beer's intellectual. What a shame so many idiots drink it. — Ray Bradbury
The root of the matter is a very simple and old fashioned thing... love or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for… — Bertrand Russell

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