Quotes about intellect
intellectual exotic urban
Anthropology has always struggled with an intense, fascinated repulsion towards its subject.... [The anthropologist] submits himself to the exotic to confirm his own inner alienation as an urban intellectual. Susan Sontag
intellectual intense cricketers
I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual. Rahul Dravid
intellectual logic faith-in-god
Faith in God goes beyond intellectual presentation and logic. Radhanath Swami
intellectual society credit
Besides the general infusion of wit to heighten civility, the direct splendor of intellectual power is ever welcome in fine society, as the costliest addition to its rule and its credit. Ralph Waldo Emerson
intellectual composer
I'm not an intellectual composer. Les Baxter
intellectual quality rabbits
domestic work is the most elementary form of labor. It is suitable for those with the intelligence of rabbits. All it requires is cleanlines, tidiness and quickness - not moral or intellectual qualities at all, but merely the outward and visible signs of health. Rebecca West
intellectual filters would-be
If culture did not filter, it would be inane - as inane as the formless, boundless Internet is on its own. And if we all possessed the boundless knowledge of the Web, we would be idiots! Culture is an instrument for making a hierarchical system of intellectual labor. Umberto Eco
intellectual financial trump
Intellectual capital will always trump financial capital. Paul Tudor Jones
intellectual asking ears
To ask for a purely intellectual proof of the existence of God is like asking for the privilege of being able to see with your ears! Meher Baba
intellect fathom
Love can attain what the intellect cannot fathom.
intellectual negative principles
Agnosticism is not properly described as a "negative" creed, nor indeed as a creed of any kind, except in so far as it expresses absolute faith in the validity of a principle which is as much ethical as intellectual. Thomas Huxley
intellectual quality legs
While I'm impressed with the length of those legs, she's not an intellectual giant. Thomas Dolby
intellect
Intellect is not wisdom. Thomas Sowell
intellectual liberty records
Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
intellectual finance humans
What we now call "finance" is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love. Robert Graves
intellectual progress infidel
The history of intellectual progress is written in the lives of infidels. Robert Green Ingersoll
intellectual liberty world
If there is one subject in this world worthy of being discussed, worthy of being understood, it is the question of intellectual liberty. Without that, we are simply painted clay.
intellectual perception matter
We are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance. Our intercourse with intellectual nature is necessary; our speculations upon matter are voluntary, and at leisure. Samuel Johnson
intellectual statistics leisure
All intellectual improvement arises from leisure.
intellectual may secular
Everybody has values. Now, you know it may be formed in a secular setting, it may be formed in an intellectual setting, but everybody comes forward with values. Sam Brownback
intellectual film kung-fu
Someone like Jean-Luc Godard is for me intellectual counterfeit money when compared to a good kung fu film. Werner Herzog
intellectual atheism matter
It is the inevitable effect of religion on public policy that makes it a matter of public concern. Advocates of religiosity extol the virtues or moral habits that religion is supposed to instill in us. But we should be equally concerned with the intellectual habits it discourages.
intellectual pessimist conviction
I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist. William Golding
intellectual distinction historian
To be a really good historian is perhaps the rarest of intellectual distinctions. Thomas B. Macaulay
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 imagine source
Open source is an intellectual-property destroyer, I can't imagine something that could be worse than this for the software business and the intellectual-property business. Jim Allchin
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 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