Intellectual Quotes

Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.

But it is one of these sort of mythologies about America and its intellectual history, that the right embraced this thing called social Darwinism, when it never did so.

It doesn't stand up to huge intellectual scrutiny.

In this business, my business, I get to meet all kinds of incredible people, fascinating people, glamorous people and sexy people and highly intellectual people. And you meet them and you go 'interesting, interesting, interesting'. They're interesting, but not very many people stop you in your tracks.

Most intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the same.

The Industry's at war. I think it's about control. You can make all of the financial arguments that the industry has been shooting itself in the foot, but it is an industry built on a foundation of ownership and exploitation of intellectual property rights.

One of the things that characterizes good intellectual work is a certain self-importance.

It does not just happen. It is disclosed by science that practically one-half of trained intellectual resources are being mobilized for murderous purposes.

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

The danger is not so much in the economic structure of a society but in its intellectual structure.

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.

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected.

Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.

This intellectual Pearl Harbor, a real gutsy sock to the stomach.

My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.

Secular writers can tell a story about the physical, the emotional, and the intellectual parts of a character. But no matter how well they tell the story, they miss a facet that is innately part of all of us - the spiritual.

In the old days, you would have one lawyer to handle everything: speeding tickets, buying a house, contracts, litigation, real estate, copyrights, leasing, entertainment, intellectual property, forensic accounting, criminal offenses... the list goes on. Now, you have to have a separate lawyer for each one of those categories!

Transparency is not the same as looking straight through a building: it's not just a physical idea, it's also an intellectual one.

The true traveller is the one urged to move about for physical, aesthetic, intellectual as well as spiritual reasons.

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.

When I start writing songs and it turns into an overly belabored intellectual process, I just throw it out.

Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

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.

Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can be more fully performed by this art, which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure.

Some men tend to cling to old intellectual excitements, just as some belles, when they are old ladies, still cling to the fashions and coiffures of their exciting youth.

Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.