Intellectual Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

An ad hominem attack against an individual, not against an idea, is highly flattering. It indicates that the person does not have anything intelligent…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I'm a fan of robust debate, and I'm not averse to engaging in the odd ad hominem attack myself.

— Mehdi Hasan

Topical-sketch writing were incredibly rational and well reasoned: don't do a joke if the subject doesn't deserve it. An ad hominem attack on someone…

— Michael Schur

I will just say, appropriation is an intellectual idea until it happens to you. It's a philosophy, and it's got its own intellectual framework.…

— Sam Abell

“How English you are, Basil! That is the second time you have made that observation. If one puts forward an idea to a true…

— Oscar Wilde

I was very resistant to my intellectualism for a while. I do start with an intellectual idea for a character. A lot of the…

— David Harbour

The intellect is a cold thing and a merely intellectual idea will never stimulate thought in the same manner that a spiritual idea does.

— Ernest Holmes

“Now, the invention of the scientific method and science is, I'm sure we'll all agree, the most powerful intellectual idea, the most powerful framework…

— Douglas Adams

I could draw ideas. I remember writing a paper for a seminar class. I remember writing a paper about - and this is going…

— Jake Gyllenhaal

“I am sometimes asked about the concept or definition of a 'public intellectual,' and though I find the whole idea faintly silly, I believe…

— Christopher Hitchens

Somewhere between the intellectual idea of why we're attracted to certain things and the pragmatic reality is some form of ever-evolving truth.

— Billy Corgan

I didn't know many classes where I could try and relate the thing that I really loved and wanted to do into an intellectual…

— Jake Gyllenhaal