Intellectual Quotes

1909 Intellectual quotes by 1296 unique authors

I like 'pencil-necked weasel'. It has 'pencil' in it. Pencils are good things. You can draw or write things with pencils. I think it's what… — Neil Gaiman
The intellectual imagination! With me all or not at all. NON SERVIAM! — James Joyce
I won't do this movie because I don't believe the love story," she told Selznick. "The heroine is an intellectual woman, and an intellectual woman… — Ingrid Bergman
The millions are awake enough for physical labor; but only one in a million is awake enough for effective intellectual exertion, only one in a… — Henry David Thoreau
Even the intellectual crowd will have none of me. Physically, I look like one of them. Graying at the temples, I walk with a slight… — Groucho Marx
Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them. — George Orwell
There's nothing like the discovery of an unknown work by a great thinker to set the intellectual community atwitter and cause academics to dart about… — Woody Allen
Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take… — Bertrand Russell
The conventional explanation for Jewish success, of course, is that Jews come from a literate, intellectual culture. They are famously "the people of the book."… — Malcolm Gladwell
I must feel the fire of my soul so my intellectual blues can set others on fire. — Cornel West
There are intellectual vagabonds, to whom the hereditary dwelling-place of their fathers seems too cramped and oppressive for them to be willing to satisfy themselves… — Max Stirner
In chess, as a purely intellectual game, where randomness is excluded, - for someone to play against himself is absurd ... It is as paradoxical,… — Stefan Zweig
Pale, nervous girls with black-rimmed glasses and blunt-cut hair lolled around on sofas, riffling Penguin Classics provocatively… But it wasn’t just intellectual experiences. They were… — Woody Allen
As regards intellectual work it remains a fact, indeed, that great decisions in the realm of thought and momentous discoveries and solutions of problems are… — Sigmund Freud
Collective wisdom, alas, is no adequate substitute for the intelligence of individuals. Individuals who opposed received opinions have been the source of all progress, both… — Bertrand Russell
I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite -… — Henry David Thoreau
Everybody should read fiction… I don’t think serious fiction is written for a few people. I think we live in a stupid culture that won’t… — Percival Everett
Someone like Jean-Luc Godard is for me intellectual counterfeit money when compared to a good kung fu film. — Werner Herzog
You don't get to be a respected intellectual by uttering truisms in monosyllables. — Noam Chomsky
Intellectual understanding does not always bring visceral belief. — Orson Scott Card
People don't want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think. But by some sort of instinct, they… — Ayn Rand
Dogs are wonderful, and in many ways unique. But they are remarkably unremarkable in their intellectual and experiential capacities. Pigs are every bit as intelligent… — Jonathan Safran Foer
However modest one may be in one's demand for intellectual cleanliness, one cannot help feeling, when coming into contact with the New Testament, a kind… — Friedrich Nietzsche
A l'intérieur de ce corps vivait l'âme d'une intellectuelle et poète dont personne n'avait le soupçon. Within this body lived the soul of an intellectual… — Antonio Tabucchi
optimism, n. The doctrine, or belief, that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong.… — Ambrose Bierce

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