Intellectually Quotes

281 quotes by 253 authors

Television, radio, and all the sources of amusement and information that surround us in our daily lives are also artificial props. They can give us… — Mortimer Adler
There's a kind of Ah-ha! Somebody at least for a moment feels about something or sees something the way that I do. It doesn't happen… — David Foster Wallace
After a time I found that I could almost listen to the silence, which had a dimension all of its own. I started to attend… — Karen Armstrong
It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue. — Oscar Wilde
The result of this is that so-called peace propaganda is just as dishonest and intellectually disgusting as war propaganda. Like war propaganda, it concentrates on… — George Orwell
Hollywood movies are designed for 15-year-old youths from North Dakota who, intellectually speaking, are on equal terms with a British zoo animal. — Jeremy Clarkson
We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness. We need others physically, emotionally, and intellectually. We need them if… — C.S. Lewis
Public libraries have been a mainstay of my life. They represent an individual's right to acquire knowledge; they are the sinews that bind civilized societies… — James A. Michener
How can you read and talk at the same time?â€ I asked. â€œWell, I usually canâ€™t, but neither the book nor the conversation is particularly… — John Green
People try to persuade us that the objections against Christianity spring from doubt. That is a complete misunderstanding. The objections against Christianity spring from insubordination,… — Soren Kierkegaard
Your friend is intellectually honourable," Jimmy's mother would say. "He doesn't lie to himself. — Margaret Atwood
I tried not to think about my life. I did not have any good solid plans for it long-term - no bad plans either, no… — Lorrie Moore
He did it (listened) as the world's most charming and magnetic people do, always asking the right question at the right time, never fidgeting or… — Stephen King
The proper good of a creature is to surrender itself to its Creatorâ€”to enact intellectually, volitionally, and emotionally, that relationship which is given in the… — C.S. Lewis
I suspect the I.Q., SAT, and school grades are tests designed by nerds so they can get high scores in order to call each other… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
All children should be loved, protected, nurtured --emotionally and intellectually-- respected, and never, under any circumstances, underestimated. — Augusten Burroughs
The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality. The tree that you are aware… — Robert M. Pirsig
The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact. — Malcolm Muggeridge
...you're on this earth with a divine purpose: to rise to the level of your highest creative possibility, expressing all that you are intellectually, emotionally,… — Marianne Williamson
Doing what has never been done before is intellectually seductive, whether or not we deem it practical. — Neil deGrasse Tyson

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