Quotes about intellect
intellectual may stuff
I'm not interested in the fact that a writer may label himself as being intellectual or anti-intellectual. l'm really interested in the stuff he's turning out. Jorge Luis Borges
intellectual wonderful spas
TED was simply wonderful, an intellectual spa, a 21st-century Chataqua, superb and singular. Kurt Andersen
intellectual economic burden
It will be sufficient to point to the enormous burdens which armaments place on the economic, social, and intellectual resources of a nation, as well as on its budget and taxes. Ludwig Quidde
intellectual dare
Who dares to be intellectual in the presence of death? Freya Stark
intellectual nationality
I have no nationality - the best possible status for an intellectual. Emile M. Cioran
intellectual events culture
I began demonstrating against serious culture. In hindsight, the actual course of events has been very humiliating for me, because no one picked up on the intellectual critique I made. Henry Flynt
intellectual analysts old-fashioned
I'm old-fashioned, a storyteller. I'm not an analyst and I'm not an intellectual. John Irving
intellectual belief kind
Never confuse faith, or belief—of any kind—with something even remotely intellectual.
intellectual opinion rebellion
When your thoughts and opinions become intellectual gods in rebellion against the Word of God, you are in idolatry. John Hagee
intellectual mind free-market
A free mind and a free market are corollaries. Ayn Rand
intellectual liberty argument
The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
intellect possess powerful senate tour
You may very well possess the most powerful intellect of any person to come before the Senate for this position, ... tour de force. Chuck Schumer
intellectual important moral
How important is a constant intercourse with nature and the contemplation of natural phenomena to the preservation of moral and intellectual health! Henry David Thoreau
intellectual alive poetic
The millions are awake enough for physical labor; but only one in a million is awake enough for effective intellectual exertion, only one in a hundred millions to a poetic or divine life. To be awake is to be alive.
intellectual cases interest
I was not naturally intellectual, but somebody whose interest had to be whetted, still the case sadly. Jeremy Irons
intellectual moral operations
Inner experience ... is not easily accessible and, viewed from the outside by intelligence, it would even be necessary to see in it a sum of distinct operations, some intellectual, others aesthetic, yet others moral. ... It is only from within, lived to the point of terror, that it appears to unify that which discursive thought must separate. Georges Bataille
intellectual intellectual-property property
There is no such thing as intellectual property. Jean-Luc Godard
intellectual needs next
Advocates of knowledge management as the next big thing have advanced the proposition that what companies need is more intellectual capital. While that is undeniably true, its only partly true. What those advocates are forgetting is that knowledge is only useful if you do something with it. Jeffrey Pfeffer
intellectual-capital ifs
Knowledge is only useful if you do something with it.
intellectual one-day speech
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. Fritz Sauckel
intellectual world today
The mediocrity of everything in the great world of today is simply appalling. We live in intellectual slums. George Santayana
intellectual cynicism dandyism
Cynicism is intellectual dandyism. George Meredith
intellect evidence historian
The best historian is he who combines knowledge of the evidence with the largest intellect, the warmest human sympathy and the highest imaginative powers. G. M. Trevelyan
intellectual emotion reason
The elimination of the will altogether and the switching off of the emotions all and sundry, is tantamount to the elimination of reason: intellectual castration. Friedrich Nietzsche
intellectual baggage unnecessary
I suppose I've always carried what is regarded as a bit of unnecessary baggage in Britain. I've always carried the charge that I am an intellectual in politics. Chris Patten
intellectual genius
It takes a genius to whine appealingly. F. Scott Fitzgerald
intellectual age chess
There are three intellectual pursuits, and, so far as I am aware, only three, in which human beings have performed major feats before the age of puberty. They are music, mathematics, and chess. George Steiner
intellectual communism enough
The Communism of the English intellectual is something explicable enough. It is the patriotism of the deracinated. George Orwell
intellectual liberty matter
What opinions the masses hold, or do not hold, is looked upon as a matter of indifference. They can be granted intellectual liberty becasue they have no intellect.
intellectual adrift politician
To an intellectual who is adrift in politics, a theory is an aim; to a true politician his theory is a boundary Francis Parker Yockey
intellectual tools gathering
Observation and experiment for gathering material, induction and deduction for elaborating it: these are are only good intellectual tools. Francis Bacon
intellectual resources private-sector
When public and private sectors combine intellectual and other resources, more can be achieved Gro Harlem Brundtland
intellectual half tongue
The admission fee was a viper's tongue and a half-concealed stiletto. It was a sort of intellectual slaughterhouse. Groucho Marx