I think one of the important evolutions is that we no longer feel compulsively the need to argue, or to justify things on a kind of rational level. We are much more willing to admit that certain things are completely instinctive and others are really intellectual.
~By Rem Koolhaas ~
I'm not known for my intellectual range and tricks have been played on me.
~By William Sanderson ~
Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
~By Victor Hugo ~
I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.
~By Robert M. Hutchins ~
Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities will always be the favorite beverage of the intellectual.
~By Thomas de Quincey ~
What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.
~By Henry Ford ~
I suppose I've always carried what is regarded as a bit of unnecessary baggage in Britain. I've always carried the charge that I am an intellectual in politics.
~By Chris Patten ~
Anti-Catholicism is the anti-Semitism of the intellectual.
~By Patrick Buchanan ~
A mugwump is a person educated beyond his intellect.
~By Horace Porter ~
We started this mostly from an intellectual place.
~By Melinda Gates ~
Many people have observed that truth is stranger than fiction. This has led some intellectuals to conclude that it's stranger than non-fiction as well.
~By Brad Holland ~
Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence.
~By David Ben Gurion ~
In order to accommodate to change and to the contrast of phenomena, the intellect does not require any shocks and inner upheavals; it is only through such upheavals that the more conservative mind could accommodate to the metropolitan rhythm of events.
~By Georg Simmel ~
The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man.
~By Charles Sumner ~
To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.
~By Jacob Bronowski ~
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 ~
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 ~
Human education is concerned with certain changes in the intellects, characters and behavior of men, its problems being roughly included under these four topics: Aims, materials, means and methods.
~By Edward Thorndike ~
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 ~
Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now it's really bad because everything we've done is de-humanizing education. It's destroying the possibility of the teacher and the student having a warm, friendly, intellectual relationship.
~By William Glasser ~
Do not try to approach God with your thinking mind. It may only stimulate your intellectual ideas, activities, and beliefs. Try to approach God with your crying heart. It will awaken your soulful, spiritual consciousness.
~By Sri Chinmoy ~
The University conceives of itself as dedicated to the power of the intellect. Its commitment is to the way of reason.
~By Edward Levi ~
Maybe it's the hair. Maybe it's the teeth. Maybe it's the intellect. No, it's the hair.
~By Tom Shales ~
Among the letters my readers write me, there is a certain category which is continuously growing, and which I see as a symptom of the increasing intellectualization of the relationship between readers and literature.
~By Herman Hesse ~
An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
~By Charles Bukowski ~
Nothing can be found in the intellect if previously has not been found in the senses.
~By Michael Servetus ~
This film business, perhaps more so in America than in Europe, has always been about young sexuality. It's not true of theatre, but in America, film audiences are young. It's not an intellectual cinema in America.
~By Jacqueline Bisset ~
The battle was first waged over the right of the Negro to be classed as a human being with a soul; later, as to whether he had sufficient intellect to master even the rudiments of learning; and today it is being fought out over his social recognition.
~By James Weldon Johnson ~
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 ~
We really want to see how the idea of an intellectual action movie is received by the world.
~By Larry Wachowski ~
It seems to me that humour is everybody's way of keeping sane and standing off from the situations so that they can see it intellectually, as well as emotionally, and I don't know whether you've noticed, but if somebody tells a joke, it's nearly always a mini fantasy.
~By Diana Wynne Jones ~
Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism; the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young.
~By Henry S. Canby ~
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 ~
In the case of Elektra I really wasn't sure I could pull it off. There were so many intellectual leaps. My character, Stick, is blind, but he can see better than most people. So I had trouble kind of finding the logic.
~By Terence Stamp ~
Music has just as much to do with movement and body as it does soul and intellect.
~By Esa-Pekka Salonen ~
It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in.
~By Friedrich Schiller ~
What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.
~By Raymond Aron ~
When public and private sectors combine intellectual and other resources, more can be achieved.
~By Gro Harlem Brundtland ~
The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - taking an intellectual form.
~By Chauncey Wright ~
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 ~
Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance.
~By Clifford Geertz ~
It's not the most intellectual job in the world, but I do have to know the letters.
~By Vanna White ~
I think one of the unique aspects of Catholic school education is the opportunity to care for the material and intellectual needs of the child in a community atmosphere.
~By Mark Foley ~
A magazine or a newspaper is a shop. Each is an experiment and represents a new focus, a new ratio between commerce and intellect.
~By John Jay Chapman ~
Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known.
~By Madeleine L'Engle ~
Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.
~By Imre Lakatos ~
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 ~
I've become so earthy. And I never was earthy. I'm doing all kinds of different roles which are not at all like the intellectual and the legal mind of Ben Stone.
~By Michael Moriarty ~
Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice.
~By George Gissing ~
Greed probably figures in my intellectual life as well, as I attempt to absorb a massive amount of information with consequent mental indigestion.
~By Etty Hillesum ~
The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.
~By Karl Marx ~
But the Spain which emerged around 1960, beginning with its economic miracle, created by the invasion of tourists, can no longer result in impassioned dedication on the part of its intellectuals, and even less on the part of foreign intellectuals.
~By Juan Goytisolo ~
I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.
~By Vera Wang ~
Science as an intellectual exercise enriches our culture, and is in itself ennobling.
~By Henry Taube ~
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 ~
If all ideas have to be bought, then you have an intellectually regressive system that will assure you have a highly knowledgeable elite and an ignorant mass.
~By John Perry Barlow ~
Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.
~By Walter Gropius ~
The forces that are driving mankind toward unity and peace are deep-seated and powerful. They are material and natural, as well as moral and intellectual.
~By Arthur Henderson ~
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 ~
A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.
~By Rita Mae Brown ~
My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.
~By Robert M. Hutchins ~
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 ~
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 ~
Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.
~By Arthur Schopenhauer ~
The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
~By John Maynard Keynes ~
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 ~
Do you really have to be the ice queen intellectual or the slut whore? Isn't there some way to be both?
~By Susan Sarandon ~
An intellectual is someone who has found something more interesting than sex.
~By Edgar Wallace ~
One of the things that characterizes good intellectual work is a certain self-importance.
~By Whitfield Diffie ~
People need meanings to everything. People want you to intellectualize every choice you make.
~By Juliana Hatfield ~
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 ~
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 ~
My mother, who was professional schoolteacher, was particularly concerned about our formal education and even went so far as to start a private school together with some other parents so that our intellectual needs would be met.
~By Robert B. Laughlin ~
Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
~By E. O. Wilson ~
My true function within a society which embraces all of us is to continue an age-old tradition. This tradition is to create images from the depths of the imagination and to give them form, whether visual, intellectual or musical.
~By Michael Tippett ~
Intellectually I'm probably a Republican.
~By Sting ~
I was not naturally intellectual, but somebody whose interest had to be whetted, still the case sadly.
~By Jeremy Irons ~
In 1995, I founded The Molecular Sciences Institute with a gift from the Philip Morris Company where I hoped that we could create an environment where young people could pursue science in an atmosphere of harmonious purpose and high intellectual challenge.
~By Sydney Brenner ~
I'm a schoolteacher. That's even worse than being an intellectual. Schoolteachers are not only comic, they're often cold and hungry in this richest land on earth.
~By Joseph L. Mankiewicz ~
I personally think intellectual property is an oxymoron. Physical objects have a completely different natural economy than intellectual goods. It's a tricky thing to try to own something that remains in your possession even after you give it to many others.
~By John Perry Barlow ~
Our family life was certainly not intellectual.
~By Douglass North ~
We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense.
~By Samuel Fuller ~
Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.
~By John F. Kennedy ~
Chess is intellectual gymnastics.
~By Wilhelm Steinitz ~
The Chicago Economics Department was in intellectual ferment, although the central issues of the 1930's were very different from those in later times. I had never before encountered minds of that quality at close quarters and they influenced me strongly.
~By George Stigler ~
I was unpopular at school just because I was an intellectual. I always answered all the questions off the top of my head but they nevertheless resented because of that.
~By George Woodcock ~
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 ~
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 ~
There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated.
~By Dan Glickman ~
You cannot be against embryonic stem cell research and be intellectually and therefore morally consistent, if you're not also against in vitro fertilization.
~By Ron Reagan ~
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 ~
Creeds and castes, and all forms of intellectual and emotional grouping, belong to the past.
~By Herbert Read ~
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
~By Mary Wollstonecraft ~
I try to be feminine, yet intellectual and smart at the same time. You don't see enough of that.
~By Portia de Rossi ~
Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.
~By Abdolkarim Soroush ~
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 ~
If China wants to be a constructive, active player in the world economy, it's got to respect intellectual property rights or it makes it pretty impossible to do business with them.
~By Dan Glickman ~
Both Brutus and Hamlet are highly intellectual by nature and reflective by habit. Both may even be called, in a popular sense, philosophic; Brutus may be called so in a stricter sense.
~By Andrew Coyle Bradley ~
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