Age Quote by Sam Harris

The intellectual's struggle to deny the obvious is never more desperate than when reality is unpleasant and at variance with his preconceptions and when…

— Anthony Daniels

Calculus is the outcome of a dramatic intellectual struggle which has lasted for twenty-five hundred years.

— Richard Courant

“Sarah’s entrance, several minutes before the start of the lecture, had thrown Casimir into a titanic intellectual struggle. He now had to decide whether…

— Neal Stephenson

I don’t really know what “intellectual” means, but if it means you’ve got a desire to learn, you’ve got a desire to look for…

— Pete Doherty

In our fast-food nation, we tend to think that the intellectual life, like everything else, can be had pre-chewed and in bulk just for…

— Norah Vincent

I actually think that my films are intellectual. I think almost everything I do is intellectual, but I would never say that, because that's…

— John Waters

When mental development is under discussion, there are many who say, 'How does movement come into it? We are talking about the mind.' And…

— Maria Montessori

I think it's an intellectual duty for a person who lives in a free society to read material not only with which you agree,…

— Tom Clancy

I don't think I'm that intellectual.

— Isabelle Huppert

I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing.

— Richard Rorty

Intelligence is a separate gift, for the benefit of students, so that they may think of themselves as intellectual and not very intelligent, or…

— Maya Angelou

Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works.

— Alexandre Dumas