Intellectual Quotes

1909 Intellectual quotes by 1296 unique authors

I would defend the liberty of consenting adult creationists to practice whatever intellectual perversions they like in the privacy of their own homes; but it… — Arthur C. Clarke
With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to the truth, by whose… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Clearly, only very unequal intellectual and moral standing could justify having equality imposed, whether the people want it or not, as Dworkin suggests, and only… — Thomas Sowell
I feel with some passion that what we truly are is private, and almost infinitely complex, and ambiguous, and both external and internal, and double-… — Philip Pullman
In the political jargon of those days, the word "intellectual" was an insult. It indicated someone who did not understand life and was cut off… — Milan Kundera
I can't think why fancy religions should have such a ghastly effect on one's grammar. It's a kind of intellectual rot that sets in, I'm… — Dorothy L. Sayers
In a world facing the revolt of ragged and hungry masses of God's children; in a world torn between the tensions of East and West,… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I mean, we're all going to die. We know that on an intellectual level. We figure it out when we're still fairly young, and it… — Jim Butcher
Let's find and remedy all our weaknesses before our enemies get a chance to say a word. That is what Charles Darwin did. ...When Darwin… — Dale Carnegie
It is difficult to hate an idea. That requires a certain intellectual discipline and a slightly obsessive, sick mind. There aren’t too many of those.… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The core of science is not a mathematical modeling--it is intellectual honesty. It is a willingness to have our certainties about the world constrained by… — Sam Harris
He had thought more than other men, and in matters of the intellect he had that calm objectivity, that certainty of thought and knowledge, such… — Hermann Hesse
There is evidence for the deity of Jesus -- good, strong, historical , cumulative evidence; evidence to which an honest person can subscribe without committing… — John Stott
In a world in which there is so much to interest, so much to enjoy, and so much also to correct and improve, everyone who… — John Stuart Mill
At least I was true. My intellectual abilities gave me a release, and an excuse. I shunned company because I preferred books; and the dreams… — Robin McKinley
Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who… — John Maynard Keynes
It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue. — Oscar Wilde
We shortchange ourselves by regarding religious faith as a matter of intellectual assent. This is a modern aberration; the traditional Christian view is far more… — Kathleen Norris
Reason flows from the blending of rational thought and feeling. If the two functions are torn apart, thinking deteriorates into schizoid intellectual activity and feeling… — Erich Fromm
We must make the building of a free society once more an intellectual adventure, a deed of courage.... Unless we can make the philosophic foundations… — Friedrich August von Hayek
A novel is a commodity that fulfills a certain need; people need to buy daydreams like they need to buy ice cream or aspirin or… — John Dos Passos
This is how great intellectual breakthroughs usually happen in practice. It is rarely the isolated genius having a eureka moment alone in the lab. Nor… — Steven Johnson
I think, therefore I am' is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches. — Milan Kundera
But when, at the end of my sophomore year, I became a philosophy major and started doing my first seriously pretentious thinking, I became a… — Jonathan Safran Foer
The intellectual was rejected and persecuted at the precise moment when the facts became incontrovertible, when it was forbidden to say that the emperor had… — Michel Foucault

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