Inspirational Quote by Tim Ingold

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 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

A knowledge of craft is not the enemy of creativity. You sit down to write and realize, today's going to be a really unconscious…

— K. M. Soehnlein

“Intellectual work sometimes, spiritual work certainly, artistic work always — these are forces that fall within its grasp, forces that must travel beyond the…

— Mary Oliver

Intellectual ''work'' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.

— Mark Twain

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

— Anonymous

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

— Albert Camus

What is an intellectual? In general, someone seriously devoted to what used to be called the “life of the mind”: thinking pursued not instrumentally,…

— Gary Gutting

One gets into a state of creativity by conscious work.

— Henri Matisse

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

“By introducing these elements at the outset, I wish to stress that all creative activity grows, first, out of the relationships between an individual…

— Howard E. Gardner

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