Affection Quote by George Saunders

The intellectual is engage-he is pledged, committed, enlisted. What everyone else is willing to admit, namely that ideas and abstractions are of signal importance…

— Richard Hofstadter

We must go beyond the intellect and find recourse in pure intelligence, which is spirit and movement.

— Deepak Chopra

“What he [the intellectual] should learn to do is to put what he has been able to salvage from the disciplines that taught him…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

It is the nature of intellect to strive to improve in intellectual power.

— Hosea Ballou

The goal of intellectual life should be to see and understand what is true, not merely to adhere to a prevailing orthodoxy.

— Jeffrey Tucker

The key then to attaining this higher level of intelligence is to make our years of study qualitatively rich. We don't simply absorb information…

— Robert Greene

“Intellectual progress usually occurs through sheer abandonment of questions together with both of the alternatives they assume -- an abandonment that results from their…

— John Dewey

I don't consider myself an intellectual. And this is not one of my aims. But I admire intellectual people.

— Marilyn Monroe

We sit for a week and listen to an extraordinary amount of people talk about what they do in the intelligence world. It's pretty…

— Lesli Linka Glatter

“The moment a realm of intellectual activity is codifiable, it ceases to be uniquely human.”

— Anonymous

The Intellect engages us in the pursuit of Truth. The Passions impel us to Action.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Being an intellectual among intellectuals means nothing. There must be more.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker