Intellectual Quotes

I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

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.

I was not naturally intellectual, but somebody whose interest had to be whetted, still the case sadly.

Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity.

An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.

The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement.

Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser's gains are ours without his cares. Thus I have soared above this world, where my enjoyment have been intellectual joys.

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.

From the business point of view - not to overstate it - intellectual property is dead; long live intellectual process. Long live service; long live performance.

The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.

To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.

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.

I wish to note that intellectual property theft by a government represents the very essence of organized crime.

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.

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.

The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers.

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.

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.

It's not highly intellectual material. I'm dedicating it to the pulp fiction of the past.

There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side.