Best Intellectual Life Quotes
- The liberal professions, and in a wider sense the well-to-do classes, are certainly those with the liveliest taste for knowledge and the most active intellectual… — Emile Durkheim
- The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina. — Pat Conroy
- As a financial historian, I was quite isolated in Oxford - British historians are supposed to write about kings - so the quality of intellectual… — Niall Ferguson
- I would stand, If the night blackened with a coming storm, Beneath some rock, listening to notes that are The ghostly language of the ancient… — William Wordsworth
- Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life ... can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the… — George Eliot
- The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker… — Soren Kierkegaard