No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man; no other idea has so fruitfully stimulated his intellect; yet no other concept stands in greater need of clarification than that of the infinite.
~By David Hilbert ~
An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego.
~By Alec Guinness ~
Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.
~By Herbert Hoover ~
Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible; reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless.
~By Max Born ~
Challenging unfairly subsidized products, fighting counterfeit goods and intellectual property theft and holding countries accountable for an unfair currency regime will help American companies remain competitive.
~By Virginia Foxx ~
Luck is of little moment to the great general, for it is under the control of his intellect and his judgment.
~By Titus Livius ~
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 ~
Play reaches the habits most needed for intellectual growth.
~By Bruno Bettelheim ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
The scientific argument advanced for intelligent design at the Dover trial, those arguments collapsed, scientifically and intellectually.
~By Kenneth Miller ~
Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
~By Victor Hugo ~
Although I was not aware of it at the time, the experience of growing up during the Great Depression was to have a profound impact on my intellectual and professional career.
~By Lawrence R. Klein ~
I obtain great satisfaction out of using my intellect.
~By Temple Grandin ~
When public and private sectors combine intellectual and other resources, more can be achieved.
~By Gro Harlem Brundtland ~
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 ~
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 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 ~
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 ~
We were proposing, in a sense, that the rest of the world be made safe for American ideas, as they adopted intellectual property rights that gave patent protection to our very innovative economy.
~By Jeffrey Sachs ~
One of the things that characterizes good intellectual work is a certain self-importance.
~By Whitfield Diffie ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Science as an intellectual exercise enriches our culture, and is in itself ennobling.
~By Henry Taube ~
Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information.
~By Kingman Brewster, Jr. ~
Traveling is the only passion that doesn't need to feel shy in front of intellect.
~By Lennart Meri ~
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
~By Albert Einstein ~
Cynicism is intellectual treason.
~By Norman Cousins ~
Futurism: This was a movement of intellectuals who wanted to replace tradition with the modern world of machinery, speed, violence, and public relations. It proves that we should be careful what intellectuals wish for, because we might get it.
~By Brad Holland ~
Intellects whose desires have outstripped their understanding.
~By Friedrich August von Hayek ~
An intellectual is going to have doubts, for example, about a fundamentalist religious doctrine that admits no doubt, about an imposed political system that allows no doubt, about a perfect aesthetic that has no room for doubt.
~By Antonio Tabucchi ~
Notwithstanding the fact that the most innovative and progressive space we've seen - the Internet - has been the place where intellectual property has been least respected. You know, facts don't get in the way of this ideology.
~By Lawrence Lessig ~
Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
~By Henri Bergson ~
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 ~
Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.
~By George Meredith ~
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. ~
There is a gulf between the Arab peoples and Arab intellectuals.
~By Tahar Ben Jelloun ~
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 ~
The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.
~By Augustus Hare ~
The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
~By John Maynard Keynes ~
It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence.
~By Desiderius Erasmus ~
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 ~
God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.
~By Francis Bacon ~
Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.
~By Dwight D. Eisenhower ~
Nothing can be found in the intellect if previously has not been found in the senses.
~By Michael Servetus ~
After I set out to refute Christianity intellectually and couldn't, I came to the conclusion the Bible was true and Jesus Christ was God's Son.
~By Josh McDowell ~
Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of historians; much more than that it does not expect, nor often get.
~By Samuel E. Morison ~
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 ~
What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher.
~By William Glasser ~
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 ~
The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective.
~By Manuel Puig ~
Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.
~By Roger Ebert ~
The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves, as far as is possible in the society of today, that union between manual and intellectual labor which characterizes the society we are aiming at.
~By Simone Weil ~
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 ~
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 William Falconer ~
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 ~
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 ~
Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.
~By Theodor Adorno ~
A social democratic party without deep roots in the working class movement would quickly fade into an unrepresentative intellectual sect.
~By Roy Jenkins ~
Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance.
~By Clifford Geertz ~
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
~By Albert Einstein ~
People need meanings to everything. People want you to intellectualize every choice you make.
~By Juliana Hatfield ~
The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
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 ~
Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for a season. All great men of letters have therefore been enthusiastic walkers.
~By Leslie Stephen ~
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 ~
Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love. If I do not love a person I am not moved to help him by proofs that he is in need; if I do love him, I wait for no proof of a special need to urge me to help him.
~By Roland Allen ~
Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.
~By Jacques Maritain ~
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 ~
Chess is intellectual gymnastics.
~By Wilhelm Steinitz ~
A mugwump is a person educated beyond his intellect.
~By Horace Porter ~
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 ~
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 ~
Creeds and castes, and all forms of intellectual and emotional grouping, belong to the past.
~By Herbert Read ~
These men were religious when the spirit of religion was buried in forms and ceremonies, and when the priesthood had armed itself with the civil powers to put down all opposition, and suppress all freedom, intellectual, civil, and religious.
~By Ethan A. Hitchcock ~
What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.
~By Thomas Mann ~
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 ~
I desire to assist in attracting to this profession young men of character and ability, also to help those already engaged in the profession to acquire the highest moral and intellectual training.
~By Joseph Pulitzer ~
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 ~
Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
~By Carl Jung ~
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 ~
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 ~
Anti-Catholicism is the anti-Semitism of the intellectual.
~By Patrick Buchanan ~
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 first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.
~By John Ruskin ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
After learning the language and culture of the Chinese people, these Jesuits began to establish contacts with the young intellectuals of the country.
~By Hu Shih ~
What a revolting contrast exists in England between the slavery of women and the intellectual superiority of women writers.
~By Flora Tristan ~
Only through the conscious action of the working masses in city and country can it be brought to life, only through the people's highest intellectual maturity and inexhaustible idealism can it be brought safely through all storms and find its way to port.
~By Rosa Luxemburg ~
I'm not one of those James Joyce intellectuals who can stand back and look at the whole edifice... It was a slow process for me to just crawl out of it, like a snake leaving his skin behind.
~By Frank McCourt ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
It doesn't stand up to huge intellectual scrutiny.
~By Andrew Lloyd Webber ~
Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.
~By Manuel Puig ~
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