Intellectual Quotes

1909 Intellectual quotes by 1296 unique authors

Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap. Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a… — Alan Watts
I'll never be a poet,' said Amory as he finished. 'I'm not enough of a sensualist really; there are only a few obvious things that… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Many people suffer all their lives from this oppressive feeling of guilt, the sense of not having lived up to their parents' expectations. This feeling… — Alice Miller
It is better for the intellectual not to talk all the time. To begin with, it would exhaust him, and, above all, it would keep… — Albert Camus
The mind serves best when it's anchored in the Word of God. There is no danger then of becoming an intellectual without integrity... — Flannery O'Connor
When you feel perpetually unmotivated, you start questioning your existence in an unhealthy way; everything becomes a pseudo intellectual question you have no interest in… — Ingmar Bergman
The trouble is the kind of guy I want to go out with doesn't even exist... Like a rugged, chain-smoking, intellectual, adventurer guy who's really… — Daniel Clowes
Brains are an asset, if you hide them. — Mae West
Transparency is not the same as looking straight through a building: it's not just a physical idea, it's also an intellectual one. — Helmut Jahn
A distinguished man should be as particular about his last words as he is about his last breath. He should write them out on a… — Mark Twain
It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time - for we are bound… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Pick up a grain a day and add to your heap. You will soon learn, by happy experience, the power of littles as applied to… — Unknown Author
Intellectual freedom is the only guarantee of a scientific - democratic approach to politics, economic development, and culture. — Andrei Sakharov
To answer brutality with brutality is to admit one's moral and intellectual bankruptcy. — Mahatma Gandhi
History is an indispensable even though not the highest form of intellectual endeavor. — Carl L. Becker
In Europe, the Enlightenment of the 18th century was seen as a battle against the desire of the Church to limit intellectual freedom, a battle… — Salman Rushdie
The earth flourishes, or is overrun with noxious weeds and brambles, as we apply or withhold the cultivating hand. So fares it with the intellectual… — Horace Mann
It is only the constant exertion and working of our sensitive, intellectual, moral, and physical machinery that keeps us from rusting, and so becoming useless. — Charles Simmons
To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of eternal things; to knowledge, the rational knowledge of temporal things. — Saint Augustine
The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self. — Novalis
All teaching and all intellectual learning come about from already existing knowledge. — Aristotle
People may talk about intellectual teaching, but what we principally want is the moral teaching. — Thomas Huxley
Keep children as much as possible by themselves ... keep them from company, good or bad. ... It will be generally found that the most… — Jacob Abbott
We canot become nonviolent on the basis of intellectual conviction. Commitment to nonviolence demands a very profound conversion of mind and heart. If we take… — Thomas Gumbleton
The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies — Unknown Author

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