Intellectual Quotes - page 2

Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat. (Mary Renault)
How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be ''American'' before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened, being humane, and having the same intellectual discipline as other civilized countries. View quote
Edith Wharton
Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime. View quote
Imre Lakatos
I'm strictly for Stevenson. I don't dig the intellectual bit, but I'm telling you, man, he knows the most. View quote
Elvis Presley
Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities ... will always be the favourite beverage of the intellectual. View quote
Thomas De Quincey
An intellectual is a person whose mind watches itself. View quote
Albert Camus
Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object. View quote
Northrop Frye
There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side. View quote
Václav Havel
It's not the most intellectual job in the world, but I do have to know the letters. View quote
Vanna White
The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference. View quote
Audre Lorde
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. (Mary Shelley)
The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot. View quote
Mark Twain
Intellectual passion drives out sensuality. View quote
Leonardo da Vinci
The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes. View quote
Arthur Miller
There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind. View quote
Joseph Conrad
Most intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the same. View quote
Wilhelm Reich
Cynicism is intellectual dandyism. View quote
George Meredith
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death. View quote
Albert Einstein
People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect. View quote
Tadao Ando
The theoretically unrestricted right to develop power, to wage war against other states, is antisocial and is doubly dangerous, because the state as a mass entity represents a low moral and intellectual level. View quote
Christian Lous Lange
It will be sufficient to point to the enormous burdens which armaments place on the economic, social, and intellectual resources of a nation, as well as on its budget and taxes. (Ludwig Quidde)
Greed probably figures in my intellectual life as well, as I attempt to absorb a massive amount of information with consequent mental indigestion. View quote
Etty Hillesum
Chess is intellectual gymnastics. View quote
Wilhelm Steinitz
I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn't educate America if they started at 6:30. View quote
Groucho Marx
Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic uninterestingness as an intellectual position. Where was the ingenuity, the ambiguity, the humanity (in the Harvard sense) of saying that the universe just happened to happen and that when we're dead we're dead. View quote
John Updike