Intellectual Quotes

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.

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.

It was always said that the big distinction between the French and the English is that the English are intelligent and the French are intellectual.

In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.

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.

We started this mostly from an intellectual place.

I hope that I am generous and tolerant, but certainly on the intellectual side I think that there are discoverable truths, and some things that are closer approximations to the truth than others.

Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches.

There are no ideas in the Republican Party right now in the Congress. They're the party of no. They desperately need some intellectual leadership. And whatever you think of Newt Gingrich, he can supply intellectual leadership. So I hope he does run.

Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap.

Strategic thinkers were naturally rattled to find this outsider fooling around with their work. They had been thinking strategically when Reagan was just another movie actor playing opposite a chimpanzee, for heaven's sake. They think Reagan is too naive, too innocent, to grasp the intellectual complexities of cold war strategy.

A social democratic party without deep roots in the working class movement would quickly fade into an unrepresentative intellectual sect.

I've always been inspired by artists who have shown musical and intellectual curiosity and the courage to take risks.

Our family life was certainly not intellectual.

He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.

The intellectual, the man of thought, doubt and analysis, should give the best of himself.

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.