Ardent Quote by Maxim Gorky

Intellectual work is an act of creation. It is as if the mental image that is studied over a period of time were to…

— Santiago Ramon y Cajal

The propensity to intellectualize is itself both essential and dangerous. I think in our modern world we are much more aware of its essential…

— Talal Asad

“In every country the intellectual class is the most influential class. This is the class which can foresee advice and lead. In no country…

— B.R. Ambedkar

Respect for intellectual excellence, the restoration of vigor and discipline to our ideas of study, curricula which aim at strengthening intellectual fiber and stretching…

— Adlai E Stevenson

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

— Hosea Ballou

“The intellectual is not defined by professional pursuit and type of occupation. Nor are good upbringing and a good family enough in themselves to…

— Alexander Solschenizyn

“and the intellectual capacity”

— Daniel James Brown

Intellectualism' is the belief that our mind comes upon a world complete in itself, and has the duty of ascertaining its contents; but has…

— William James

We have to move toward specificity, intelligence, facts, proof, and mutual affection. What I think people have to do now is be very, very…

— George Saunders

To attempt to superimpose its views through the exercise of force, is seldom the part of intelligence; it is frequently the part of ignorance.

— Paul Harris

But in the intellectual world, there is room for all opposing forces: even that which never appears victorious in the real world continues to…

— Stefan Zweig

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