Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice.
~By George Gissing ~
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 ~
There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.
~By Gilbert K. Chesterton ~
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 ~
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 ~
Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.
~By Karl Von Clausewitz ~
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 ~
History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff well, it might as well be dead.
~By Arnold J. Toynbee ~
He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.
~By Iris Murdoch ~
We are united in the hope that every individual will someday enjoy at least the intellectual privileges we have had, if not always the material advantages.
~By Sidney Altman ~
Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
Pol Pot - he rounded up anybody he thought was intellectual and had them executed. And how he told someone was intellectual or not was whether they wore glasses. If they're that clever, take them off when they see him coming!
~By Ricky Gervais ~
My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.
~By Robert M. Hutchins ~
The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers.
~By Benjamin Banneker ~
English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards of women which has taken place in the last half-century.
~By Mary A. Ward ~
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 ~
The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.
~By Blaise Pascal ~
Systematic philosophical and practical anti-intellectualism such as we are witnessing appears to be something truly novel in the history of human culture.
~By Johan Huizinga ~
An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.
~By Dan Rather ~
One day I heard a speech of Hitler. In this speech he said that the German factory worker and the German labourer must make common cause with the German intellectual worker.
~By Fritz Sauckel ~
Marks of Identity is, among other things, the expression of the process of alienation in a contemporary intellectual with respect to his own country.
~By Juan Goytisolo ~
Tennis doesn't encourage any kind of intellectual development.
~By Jim Courier ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
We ourselves can die with comfort and even with joy if we know that death is but a passport to blessedness, that this intellect, freed from all material chains, shall rise and shine.
~By Matthew Simpson ~
We bring together the best ideas - turning the meetings of our top managers into intellectual orgies.
~By Jack Welch ~
Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life.
~By Charles Scribner, Jr. ~
One of the things that characterizes good intellectual work is a certain self-importance.
~By Whitfield Diffie ~
Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.
~By Gilbert K. Chesterton ~
The concept of reason itself appears as an artificial attempt to separate intellectual powers from the frustrations, emotions, and accidents which cause events; the concept of reason is viewed as facade to prevent change.
~By Edward Levi ~
Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.
~By John Ruskin ~
I don't dare postulate about science, but I know that it takes both emotion and intellect in order for art to happen.
~By Lukas Foss ~
I've never been an intellectual but I have this look.
~By Woody Allen ~
I obtain great satisfaction out of using my intellect.
~By Temple Grandin ~
At the beginning of the twentieth century, every single leading Muslim intellectual was in love with the west, and wanted their countries to look just like Britain and France.
~By Karen Armstrong ~
I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.
~By Randall Jarrell ~
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 ~
To an intellectual who is adrift in politics, a theory is an aim; to a true politician his theory is a boundary.
~By Francis Parker Yockey ~
God is a metaphor for that which trancends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.
~By Joseph Campbell ~
The amount of sophistication varies according to the quality of the medium, and to the state of the same medium at different times; it must be attributed in the best cases physiologically to the medium, intellectually to the control.
~By Oliver Joseph Lodge ~
My deepest impulses are optimistic, an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect.
~By Ellen Willis ~
But ultimately what I was impressed by during my years in government was how much the intellectual climate and the prevailing intellectual notions constrained and represented the universe within which the discourse took place.
~By Lawrence Summers ~
Whereas you have someone like Houdini, who works really, really hard to get really, really famous, and then has actual intellectual ideas that he puts into the culture that stay there.
~By Penn Jillette ~
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 ~
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 ~
The University conceives of itself as dedicated to the power of the intellect. Its commitment is to the way of reason.
~By Edward Levi ~
I'm strictly for Stevenson. I don't dig the intellectual bit, but I'm telling you, man, he knows the most.
~By Elvis Presley ~
Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.
~By Dwight D. Eisenhower ~
Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.
~By G. M. Trevelyan ~
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 ~
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 ~
Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.
~By Imre Lakatos ~
It will appear evident upon attentive consideration that equality of intellectual and physical advantages is the only sure foundation of liberty, and that such equality may best, and perhaps only, be obtained by a union of interests and cooperation in labor.
~By Francis Wright ~
But the answer to how to live is to stop thinking about it. And just to live. But you're doing that anyway. However you intellectualise it, you still just live.
~By Damien Hirst ~
I had to be intellectually satisfied as well as emotionally because at that time of life one doesn't just fall into it in adolescent emotion, and I was satisfied at every point that it was the one way and the hard way to do things.
~By Ruth Pitter ~
I think some people wished I'd kept myself out of the book. But I kind of insist on it because I want the reader to share my engagement with the material, if you like, not pretend that I'm doing it completely intellectually.
~By Helen Garner ~
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 ~
People recognize intellectual property the same way they recognize real estate. People understand what property is. But it's a new kind of property, and so the understanding uses new control surfaces. It uses a new way of defining the property.
~By Michael Nesmith ~
A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual.
~By Anthony Burgess ~
Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!
~By William James ~
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 ~
Don't make art for other artists or for 'intellectuals', make art for people - and if you can touch just one person in a lifetime and make a difference - you have succeeded.
~By Ray Conniff ~
No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.
~By Theodore Roosevelt ~
I am certainly not an intellectual relativist, nor a moral relativist.
~By Edward Tufte ~
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 ~
Don't leave home without your sword - your intellect.
~By Alan Moore ~
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 ~
Intellectual comradeship requires that you think your thoughts through to the place where you can make the complex seem simple, the obscure quite clear.
~By David Seabury ~
My basic approach to interviewing is to ask the basic questions that might even sound naive, or not intellectual. Sometimes when you ask the simple questions like 'Who are you?' or 'What do you do?' you learn the most.
~By Brian Lamb ~
It is because the fight against the harshest aspects of unrestricted capitalism is therefore a political problem and not an intellectual one that community action remains so essential.
~By Barney Frank ~
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 ~
The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.
~By Leonardo da Vinci ~
The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works.
~By Jacques Barzun ~
My father also happened to be an intellectual, as learned, literate, informed, and curious as anyone I have known. Unobtrusively and casually, he was my wise and gentle teacher.
~By James Tobin ~
You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
~By Henri Bergson ~
In short, the time has come for us as American and Iranian citizens to apply our mutual energy, intellect, and goodwill toward strengthening relations between our two countries, as their destinies are intertwined.
~By Cyrus Vance ~
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.
~By Christian Lous Lange ~
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 ~
The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.
~By Noam Chomsky ~
The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.
~By Paul Valery ~
The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man.
~By Charles Sumner ~
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 ~
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 ~
A social democratic party without deep roots in the working class movement would quickly fade into an unrepresentative intellectual sect.
~By Roy Jenkins ~
Amherst was pivotal in my broad intellectual development; MIT in my development as a professional economist.
~By Joseph E. Stiglitz ~
Intellectually I'm probably a Republican.
~By Sting ~
The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.
~By Carson McCullers ~
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
~By Dwight D. Eisenhower ~
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 ~
Words are the children of reason and, therefore, can't explain it. They really can't translate feeling because they're not part of it. That's why it bugs me when people try to analyze jazz as an intellectual theorem. It's not. It's feeling.
~By Bill Evans ~
We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.
~By Carl Jung ~
Modern techniques have torn down state frontiers, both economical and intellectual. The growth of means of transport has created a world market and an opportunity for division of labor embracing all the developed and most of the undeveloped states.
~By Christian Lous Lange ~
The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought.
~By Karl Jaspers ~
Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.
~By Albert Einstein ~
Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
~By E. O. Wilson ~
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 ~
The true traveller is the one urged to move about for physical, aesthetic, intellectual as well as spiritual reasons.
~By Ella Maillart ~
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