I admit that the eyes of the intellectually and culturally lively tend to glaze over at the mere mention of sociology, often with ample justification.
~By Richard Wall ~
I've become wary of interviews in which you're forced to go back over the reasons why you made certain decisions. You tend to rationalize what you've done, to intellectually review a process that is often intuitive.
~By Peter Weir ~
People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect.
~By Tadao Ando ~
Punk rock really came out of N.Y. as a philosophy before the groups were ever recorded. I had a kind-of intellectual interest in the idea of creating a new scene that could be a grassroots thing.
~By Greg Ginn ~
I have always had trouble recognizing myself in the features of the intellectual playing his political role according to the screenplay that you are familiar with and whose heritage deserves to be questioned.
~By Jacques Derrida ~
I think Chris Rock at the Oscars was a great example. I thought that was intellectually hilarious. The Gap starts a war with Banana Republic... That to me was funny.
~By Christopher Meloni ~
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.
~By Audre Lorde ~
An intellectual is someone who has found something more interesting than sex.
~By Edgar Wallace ~
Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
~By Thomas Sowell ~
They're now turning those seeds into intellectual property, so they have a virtual lock on the seeds upon which we all depend for our food and survival.
~By Jeremy Rifkin ~
Certainly the party counts a considerable number of intellectuals among its members, but I am by no means disposed to apologise for that.
~By Harry Oppenheimer ~
I like John Kerry. I think he's intellectually curious and very thoughtful. I think he's deeply committed on issues like the environment. I think he's an internationalist, which I am.
~By Howard Dean ~
It's hard to get into Newsweek because, as more of our former intellectual magazines take on a pop focus, if there's no buzz, there's no interest.
~By Branford Marsalis ~
Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.
~By Abdallah II ~
When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social injustice, I supported it intellectually.
~By Barney Frank ~
The intellectual who wants to do her work properly must today go back to the starting point: the woman whom she knows, and first of all to herself. It is at that level, and at no other, that she ought to begin to think about the world situation.
~By Jacques Ellul ~
The apostles were moved, not so much by an intellectual apprehension, as by a spiritual illumination. They met men, and the need of those men whom they met cried aloud to them.
~By Roland Allen ~
When I start writing songs and it turns into an overly belabored intellectual process, I just throw it out.
~By Alanis Morissette ~
The fact is, every thinker, every philosopher, the moment he is forced to abandon his one-sided intellectual occupation by practical necessity, immediately returns to the general point of view of mankind.
~By Ernst Mach ~
Tennis doesn't encourage any kind of intellectual development.
~By Jim Courier ~
It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life.
~By Augustus Hare ~
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.
~By George Meredith ~
Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks.
~By Anthony Trollope ~
Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence.
~By David Ben Gurion ~
Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.
~By Georges Bataille ~
The object of preaching is to constantly remind mankind of what they keep forgetting; not to supply the intellect, but to fortify the feebleness of human resolutions.
~By Sydney Smith ~
Play reaches the habits most needed for intellectual growth.
~By Bruno Bettelheim ~
We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without touching the bottom.
~By Tahar Ben Jelloun ~
When you poll all of the economists, uh, across America that I think are intellectually honest they would all, or maybe not all, but 95% of them 96% of them would say you know we really have got a powerful economy.
~By Donald Evans ~
The moral and intellectual character of the Africans is widely different in different nations.
~By Samuel George Morton ~
The University conceives of itself as dedicated to the power of the intellect. Its commitment is to the way of reason.
~By Edward Levi ~
Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.
~By Karl Von Clausewitz ~
Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants.
~By Charles Henry Parkhurst ~
The Geometer has the special privilege to carry out, by abstraction, all constructions by means of the intellect. Who, then, would wish to prevent me from freely considering figures hanging on a balance imagined to be at an infinite distance beyond the confines of the world?
~By Evangelista Torricelli ~
The danger is not so much in the economic structure of a society but in its intellectual structure.
~By Philip Kaufman ~
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
The teacher who would be true to his mission and accomplish the most good, must give prominence to moral as well as intellectual instruction.
~By Sheldon Jackson ~
This intellectual Pearl Harbor, a real gutsy sock to the stomach.
~By J. Allen Hynek ~
I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot.
~By Jeane Kirkpatrick ~
When asked if I consider myself Buddhist, the answer is, Not really. But it's more my religion than any other because I was brought up with it in an intellectual and spiritual environment. I don't practice or preach it, however.
~By Uma Thurman ~
Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information.
~By Kingman Brewster, Jr. ~
The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.
~By Walter Pater ~
The function of intellect is to provide a means of modifying our reactions to the circumstances of life, so that we may secure pleasure, the symptom of welfare.
~By Edward Thorndike ~
There is a vast difference - a constitutional difference-between restrictions imposed by the state which prohibit the intellectual commingling of students, and the refusal of individuals to commingle where the state presents no such bar.
~By Frederick M. Vinson ~
Israel has created a new image of the Jew in the world - the image of a working and an intellectual people, of a people that can fight with heroism.
~By David Ben Gurion ~
A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.
~By Charles Lamb ~
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
~By Marcel Proust ~
I've never been an intellectual but I have this look.
~By Woody Allen ~
The relation between practical and spiritual spheres in music is obvious, if only because it demands ears, finger, consciousness and intellect.
~By Luciano Berio ~
To spend this particular year reading essays to Dennis Robertson as one's supervisor, and, simultaneously, enjoying membership of the group round Keynes was indeed an intellectual treat.
~By James Meade ~
Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.
~By Chuck Palahniuk ~
Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
~By Henri Bergson ~
The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps.
~By Henry Ellis ~
We bring together the best ideas - turning the meetings of our top managers into intellectual orgies.
~By Jack Welch ~
We've no use for intellectuals in this outfit. What we need is chimpanzees. Let me give you a word of advice: never say a word to us about being intelligent. We will think for you, my friend. Don't forget it.
~By Louis-Ferdinand Celine ~
There's a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics, especially within the sphere of the arts and the theatre.
~By Harold Pinter ~
Cynicism is intellectual treason.
~By Norman Cousins ~
Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.
~By Theodor Adorno ~
The EU and the U.S. often work together to develop international standards. This is the case in fighting terrorism and transnational crime, advancing trade liberalization, and combating piracy and intellectual property violations.
~By John Bruton ~
What is important is that one utilizes one's intellect and not to be 100 percent sure about one's convictions. One should always leave room for doubt.
~By Shirin Ebadi ~
The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance.
~By Robert Bork ~
Napoleon was probably the equal at least of Washington in intellect, his superior in education. Both of them were successful in serving the state.
~By Matthew Simpson ~
To the indefinite, uncertain mind of the American radical the most contradictory ideas and methods are possible. The result is a sad chaos in the radical movement, a sort of intellectual hash, which has neither taste nor character.
~By Emma Goldman ~
Chess is intellectual gymnastics.
~By Wilhelm Steinitz ~
It is intellectually dishonest to look backwards with all the facts and judge the decisions that were made with almost none of the facts, or the facts that existed hidden in the normal cloud of endless speculation of what might happen.
~By Norm Coleman ~
Eco sees the intellectual as an organizer of culture, someone who can run a magazine or a museum. An administrator, in fact. I think this is a melancholy situation for an intellectual.
~By Antonio Tabucchi ~
The higher the voice the smaller the intellect.
~By Ernest Newman ~
That was my first lesson from Ben-Gurion. Then I saw him making peace, and I saw him making war. He mobilized me before the war. The man was a very rare combination between a real intellectual and a born leader. There is a contradiction between the two.
~By Shimon Peres ~
There are no ideas in the Republican Party right now in the Congress. They're the party of no. They desperately need some intellectual leadership. And whatever you think of Newt Gingrich, he can supply intellectual leadership. So I hope he does run.
~By Howard Dean ~
Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.
~By Karl Von Clausewitz ~
Ward Churchill might be more valuable to the opponents of the academic left employed than unemployed. Above all, he can serve as a living window into the intellectual, moral, and political bankruptcy of the left.
~By Mort Kondracke ~
The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, "I was wrong".
~By Sydney J. Harris ~
Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.
~By Arthur Schopenhauer ~
An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.
~By Aldous Huxley ~
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
~By Immanuel Kant ~
We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to be despised for a fool is covered with steel and it is often very hard to find his vulnerable part.
~By Giacomo Casanova ~
We do not have many intellectuals who can speak out for us internationally. We have no writers who are recognized, respected and loved outside the Arab world.
~By Tahar Ben Jelloun ~
Anti-Catholicism is the anti-Semitism of the intellectual.
~By Patrick Buchanan ~
No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.
~By Booker T. Washington ~
A social democratic party without deep roots in the working class movement would quickly fade into an unrepresentative intellectual sect.
~By Roy Jenkins ~
Intellectuals would be much more accepted now than in the '40s.
~By Parker Stevenson ~
I say that I represent this movement because my intellectual allegiances are clearly European, not African.
~By J. M. Coetzee ~
The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.
~By Oliver Wendell Holmes ~
I think there's a natural system in your own head about how much violence the scene warrants. It's not an intellectual process, it's an instinctive process.
~By Guy Ritchie ~
Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility.
~By Hu Shih ~
The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.
~By Blaise Pascal ~
I don't know if I was a desirable person, not just physically but emotionally and mentally and intellectually. I still have a long way go and a lot to learn, but I'm on my way, I don't think I'm terribly attractive, but I'm comfortable with my looks.
~By Shelley Duvall ~
All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "Facts". They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.
~By Thomas Hobbes ~
I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can be adduced that some vast intellect animates Infinity.
~By Percy Bysshe Shelley ~
If I had to choose criteria, for me, it's about first the director. I want to be a part of something that's good and intellectually challenging. After the director it's the character and the story. That's the deal for me.
~By Giovanni Ribisi ~
Investors should start with a view of skepticism. They should become intellectual investors rather than emotional investors. They should be careful, and they should be skeptical.
~By Arthur Levitt ~
An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
~By Charles Bukowski ~
Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.
~By Ovid ~
Vivid images are like a beautiful melody that speaks to you on an emotional level. It bypasses your logic centers and even your intellect and goes to a different part of the brain.
~By Steven Bochco ~
An intellectual is someone who avoids the mundane by lowering his handicap.
~By Richard Reeves ~
For many decades now - and certainly during my adult life in academe - the Western intellectual world has not been convinced that theology is a pursuit that can be engaged in with intellectual honesty and integrity.
~By Arthur Peacocke ~
Music has just as much to do with movement and body as it does soul and intellect.
~By Esa-Pekka Salonen ~
All this is applicable to the intellectual faculties of man. There is a considerable difference between one person and another as regards these faculties, as is well known to philosophers.
~By Maimonides ~
I'm not an intellectual composer.
~By Les Baxter ~
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