Intellectual Quotes

If only everyone could know and live with their inner craziness. Would the world be a worse place fo...

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

The older America, until the 1890s and in some respects until 1914, was wrapped in the security of c...

Ideally, the pursuit of truth is said to be at the heart of the intellectual's business, but this cr...

If mind is seen not as a threat but as a guide to emotion, if intellect is seen neither as a guarant...

To those who suspect that intellect is a subversive force in society, it will not do to reply that i...

What we now call 'finance' is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.

To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.

I went on writing reviews for the newspaper, and critical articles crying out for a different approa...

I had to satisfy the action fans, the romantic fans, the intellectual fans. It was a terrific burden...

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.

The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to pa...

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or ev...

Intellectual property is an important legal and cultural issue. Society as a whole has complex issue...

I write out of my intellectual experience.

The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering hap...

Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply a...

excuse my enthusiasm or rather madness, for I am really drunk with intellectual vision whenever I ta...

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implemen...

The liberal professions, and in a wider sense the well-to-do classes, are certainly those with the l...

The reading eye must do the work to make them live, and so it did, again and again, never the same l...

It is better for the intellectual not to talk all the time. To begin with, it would exhaust him, and...

Surrealism was necessary - essential, even - in the 1920s to bridge the gap between rationalism and ...

Introspection does not need to be a still life. It can be an active alchemy.

The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers.

Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.

We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the thi...

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

For Socrates, all virtues were forms of knowledge. To train someone to manage an account for Goldman...

Religion is a totalitarian belief. It is the wish to be a slave. It is the desire that there be an u...

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really impor...

Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence.

The most dangerous thing about an academic education is that it enables my tendency to over-intellec...

To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.

Our family life was certainly not intellectual.

Reading is my passion and my escape since I was 5 years old. Overall, children don't realize the mag...

Nothing in my view is more reprehensible than those habits of mind in the intellectual that induce a...

There will always be those little minds who, out of vanity or intellectual display, will attempt to ...

Communism...muat of necessity be a saddening process for anyone who has ever tasted the intellectual...

To an intellectual who is adrift in politics, a theory is an aim; to a true politician his theory is...

A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design tha...

To force oneself to believe and to accept a thing without understanding is political, and not spirit...

Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life—the life which has a seed of ennobling th...

Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-int...

These intellectual guys don't like to have an intellectual conversation with you unless they're runn...

I'm not trying to tell you," he said, "that only educated and scholarly men are able to contribute s...

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.

You make all the fashion statements just by dressing up your mind.

Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He h...

Which got me to wondering whether it’s possible to learn how to be a person in a world where all the...

Is my paranoia getting completely out of hand, or are you mongoloids really talking about me?

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.

For the first time after so many years I come back to cry aloud in the desert. Because this is the m...

To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. This is the sport, the luxury, special to the...

The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruli...

Like Alan Turing, Zuse was educated in a system that focused on a child's emotional and philosophica...

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

We've no use for intellectuals in this outfit. What we need is chimpanzees. Let me give you a word o...

When, thirty-five years ago, I tried to give a summary of the ideas and principles of that social ph...

Whoever prefers the material comforts of life over intellectual wealth is like the owner of a palace...

Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second.

The work of an intellectual is not to form the political will of others; it is, through the analyses...

I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual I'm too abstract I think too much.

In mathematics, in physics, people are concerned with what you say, not with your certification. But...

Reigning doctrines are often called a "double standard".The term is misleading.It is more accurate t...