Intellectual Quotes

1909 Intellectual quotes by 1296 unique authors

All intellectual tendencies are corrupted when they consort with power. — Clive James
It seems to me a fundamental dishonesty, and a fundamental treachery to intellectual integrity to hold a belief because you think it's useful and not… — Bertrand Russell
Our students wanted to know everything: but only the newest theory seemed to them worth bothering with. Knowing nothing of the intellectual achievements of the… — Claude Levi-Strauss
How could anything non-controversial be of intellectual interest to grown-ups? — Edward Abbey
Thank you for explaining that my eye cancer isn't going to make me deaf. I feel so fortunate that an intellectual giant like yourself would… — John Green
Being tired of all illusions and of everything about illusions – the loss of illusions, the uselessness of having them, the prefatigue of having to… — Fernando Pessoa
I don’t really know what “intellectual” means, but if it means you’ve got a desire to learn, you’ve got a desire to look for things… — Pete Doherty
It's clearly a crisis of two things: of consciousness and conditioning. We have the technological power, the engineering skills to save our planet, to cure… — Terence McKenna
there are lots of would-be censors out there, and although they may have different agendas, they all want basically the same thing: for you to… — Stephen King
Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart. — Erica Jong
If one's intellectual equipment was not great, one's spiritual experience not deep, the result of doing one's very best could only seem very lightweight in… — Elizabeth Goudge
The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time. — Stephen King
Even in a personal sense, after all, art is an intensified life. By art one is more deeply satisfied and more rapidly used up. It… — Thomas Mann
The agnostic, the skeptic, is neurotic, but this does not imply a false philosophy; it implies the discovery of facts to which he does not… — Alan Watts
Distress at losing an object can be as much a frustration at the intellectual mystery of the disappearance as about the loss itself. — Alain de Botton
The generality of mankind is lazy. What distinguishes men of genuine achievement from the rest of us is not so much their intellectual powers and… — Sydney J. Harris
I soon began to sense a fundamental perceptual difficulty among male scholars (and some female ones) for which 'sexism' is too facile a term. It… — Adrienne Rich
...as man under pressure tends to give in to physical and intellectual weakness, only great strength of will can lead to the objective. — Carl von Clausewitz
What the self-styled modern artists are doing is a sort of unemotional pseudo-intellectual masturabtion … whereas creative art is more like intercourse, in which the… — Yevgeny Zamyatin
The general intellectual level of South Florida is somewhere just above "functionally retarded". — Tucker Max
LSD, yeah, the big parade – everybody's doin' it now. Take LSD, then you are a poet, an intellectual. What a sick mob. I am… — Charles Bukowski
Great writers, I discovered, were not to be bowed down before and worshipped, but embraced and befriended. Their names resounded through history not because they… — Stephen Fry
We're so different. You're an intellectual. I'm an idiot." "Don't say that," I yelled. "You're not an idiot, you stupid idiot. — Melina Marchetta
My intellectual achievement was retarded when I went to high school. I sort of sank into a black hole because I had to go to… — Noam Chomsky
I have problems with a religion which says that faith in itself is enough for a ticket to heaven. In other words, that the ideal… — Jo Nesbo

Who Wrote These Intellectual Quotes

1,296 authors contributed a total of 1,909 Intellectual Quotes, led by these top contributors: