If there's an intellectual highway, there's also an intellectual subway.
~By Stanley Crouch ~
We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense.
~By Samuel Fuller ~
Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage - not intellectual courage, but just plain physical courage.
~By Walter Lord ~
We were playing, not for the drunks, but for the musicians, because it was more intellectually challenging. We needed somewhere to put our energy to show that we were growing, and as we started to achieve this, people came to hear us musically.
~By Ronnie Hawkins ~
When a person responds emotionally to intellectual things, or emotionally only to traditional emotional things - I find that an interesting break between myself and some other writers and fans.
~By Elizabeth Moon ~
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 intellect is always fooled by the heart.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
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 march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.
~By Thomas Sowell ~
If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. You must reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience.
~By Jack Lemmon ~
The moral and intellectual character of the Africans is widely different in different nations.
~By Samuel George Morton ~
I try to be feminine, yet intellectual and smart at the same time. You don't see enough of that.
~By Portia de Rossi ~
Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
~By Sinclair Lewis ~
Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
~By Orson Scott Card ~
What a revolting contrast exists in England between the slavery of women and the intellectual superiority of women writers.
~By Flora Tristan ~
Intellectualism came very late to America. That's why Americans are so proud of it. I found very few real intellectuals in America. But there are so many pseudo-intellectuals.
~By Douglas Sirk ~
Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence.
~By David Ben Gurion ~
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 ~
The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
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 ~
Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.
~By Manuel Puig ~
The direction and constancy of the will is what really matters, and intellect and feeling are only important insofar as they contribute to that.
~By Evelyn Underhill ~
Americans have been selling this view around the world: that progress comes from perfect protection of intellectual property.
~By Lawrence Lessig ~
Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
~By Victor Hugo ~
Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety, a perfect liberty of thought and of worship must be allowed to the individual in his approach to the Infinite.
~By Sri Aurobindo ~
From the business point of view - not to overstate it - intellectual property is dead; long live intellectual process. Long live service; long live performance.
~By Esther Dyson ~
I have some strategical vision, I could calculate some few moves ahead and I have an intellect that is badly missed in the country which is run by generals and colonels.
~By Garry Kasparov ~
I say that I represent this movement because my intellectual allegiances are clearly European, not African.
~By J. M. Coetzee ~
I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much.
~By Newt Gingrich ~
The level of potential physical productivity of a society depends on both the development of the intellect of its members, and a minimal standard of both demographic characteristics and of consumption.
~By Robert Trout ~
Men have been found to deny woman intellect; they have credited her with instinct, with intuition, with a capacity to correlate cause and effect much as a dog connects its collar with a walk.
~By W. L. George ~
People need a sacred narrative. They must have a sense of larger purpose, in one form or another, however intellectualized. They will find a way to keep ancestral spirits alive.
~By E. O. Wilson ~
My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.
~By George Meredith ~
My intellect has always been more responsible than my emotions for how I respond to the world.
~By Suzanne Vega ~
The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters.
~By Christopher Lasch ~
Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
~By Jorge Luis Borges ~
People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.
~By F. Murray Abraham ~
The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.
~By Blaise Pascal ~
I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty.
~By Claude Levi-Strauss ~
It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.
~By David Attenborough ~
It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
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 ~
I have never met anyone who did not support our troops. Sometimes, however, we hear accusations that someone or some group does not support the men and women serving in our Armed Forces. But this is pure demagoguery, and it is intellectually dishonest.
~By Ron Paul ~
My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.
~By George Washington ~
If God has made the world a perfect mechanism, He has at least conceded so much to our imperfect intellect that in order to predict little parts of it, we need not solve innumerable differential equations, but can use dice with fair success.
~By Max Born ~
Music has just as much to do with movement and body as it does soul and intellect.
~By Esa-Pekka Salonen ~
It doesn't stand up to huge intellectual scrutiny.
~By Andrew Lloyd Webber ~
The intellect is a cold thing and a merely intellectual idea will never stimulate thought in the same manner that a spiritual idea does.
~By Ernest Holmes ~
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
~By Galileo Galilei ~
An intellectual is someone who avoids the mundane by lowering his handicap.
~By Richard Reeves ~
What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects.
~By Walter Pater ~
Having played many roles of scientific intellect I do have an empathy for that world. It's been hard on me because flying the Enterprise for seven years in Star Trek and sitting in Cerebro in X-men has led people to believe that I know what I'm talking about. But I'm still trying to work out how to operate the air conditioning unit on my car.
~By Patrick Stewart ~
By exploring the political and moral colorings of discoveries about what makes us tick, we can have a more honest science and a less fearful intellectual milieu.
~By Steven Pinker ~
Berkeley had a liberal element in the student body who tended to be quite active. I think that's in general a feature of intellectually active places.
~By John Searle ~
The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities; the scientist accepts an existing field of knowledge and seeks to map out the unexplored terrain.
~By Daniel Bell ~
Eyes is the attempt to tell the story of the Civil Rights movement and to create an emotional, intellectual constituency. But what do you do after that? The black community doesn't have institutions that pick up such moments and preserve them.
~By Henry Hampton ~
No one with a body full of aliments can have a luminous soul and other intellectual faculties. It is necessary to care for the body if we wish the spirit to function normally.
~By Michael Servetus ~
Eighty percent of our life is emotion, and only 20 percent is intellect. I am much more interested in how you feel than how you think. I can change how you think, but how you feel is something deeper and stronger, and it's something that's inside you.
~By Frank Luntz ~
We had a certain kind of really big prestige among, I suppose not just intellectual folk, but a sort of nice middle class intelligent folk of a very urban nature.
~By Adolph Green ~
The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.
~By Isaac Bashevis Singer ~
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 ~
Genius is the very eye of intellect and the wing of thought; it is always in advance of its time, and is the pioneer for the generation which it precedes.
~By William Gilmore Simms ~
Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
~By Janis Joplin ~
And with each day that passed, the gulf broadened and my isolation became more accentuated. In such a situation, the discovery that my experience was not unique, that it had also been that of other Spanish intellectuals, became very important for me.
~By Juan Goytisolo ~
The intellectual evolution of the race consists in an increase in the number, delicacy, complexity, permanence and speed of formation of such associations.
~By Edward Thorndike ~
The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective.
~By Manuel Puig ~
This is still a man's profession, with a lot of men who intellectually and emotionally have not accepted that the military could be women's work.
~By Lawrence Korb ~
Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.
~By Bill Gates ~
The higher the voice the smaller the intellect.
~By Ernest Newman ~
Most intellectuals today have a phobia of any explanation of the mind that invokes genetics.
~By Steven Pinker ~
I studied economics and made it my career for two reasons. The subject was and is intellectually fascinating and challenging, particularly to someone with taste and talent for theoretical reasoning and quantitative analysis.
~By James Tobin ~
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 ~
Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
~By E. O. Wilson ~
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 ~
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
~By Marcel Proust ~
I have three brothers and they're all into computers. They're all intellects. My mother would pay me a quarter a page to read a book and I couldn't make 50 cents. I just couldn't do it.
~By Josh Holloway ~
The intellectual force of the West is still dominant, but other cultures are getting stronger. I expect that we will develop a new way of thinking in architecture and urban planning, and that less will be based on our models.
~By Rem Koolhaas ~
There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side.
~By Vaclav Havel ~
Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.
~By Theodor Adorno ~
Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature.
~By Edward Thorndike ~
The grinding of the intellect is for most people as painful as a dentist's drill.
~By Leonard Woolf ~
Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values.
~By Gerald Brenan ~
All observers not laboring under hallucinations of the senses are agreed, or can be made to agree, about facts of sensible experience, through evidence toward which the intellect is merely passive, and over which the individual will and character have no control.
~By Chauncey Wright ~
In a more intellectually rigorous age, I wouldn't be talked about as a satirist at all. I would just be a topical comedian.
~By Rory Bremner ~
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
~By Carl Jung ~
Feminism is a political mistake. Feminism is a mistake made by women's intellect, a mistake which her instinct will recognize.
~By Valentine de Saint-Point ~
Among those who are satisfactory in this respect it is desirable to have represented as great a diversity of intellectual tradition, social milieu and personal character as possible.
~By Talcott Parsons ~
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 ~
It is certainly safe, in view of the movement to the right of intellectuals and political thinkers, to pronounce the brain death of socialism.
~By Norman Tebbit ~
Yeah, the New York Times is very intellectual and very, very prestigious, but it doesn't reach the market that People magazine does.
~By Edward James Olmos ~
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.
~By Ludwig Quidde ~
In disposition the Negro is joyous, flexible, and indolent; while the many nations which compose this race present a singular diversity of intellectual character, of which the far extreme is the lowest grade of humanity.
~By Samuel George Morton ~
A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail.
~By Paul Wellstone ~
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 ~
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 ~
It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.
~By Bryant H. McGill ~
Lennon was not very fond of me. Lennon didn't like to be around somebody else who was likely to be the center of attention and didn't like being on deck with somebody who was intellectually as hot as he was.
~By Peter Fonda ~
In no instance is there to be a musical or opera of Inherit the Wind because it doesn't sing. It's an intellectual play.
~By Jerome Lawrence ~
So basically, I think music at its best can be everything. It can be totally stupid and very intellectual and emotional at the same time. I don't think all those things shut each other out.
~By Ville Valo ~
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