Quotes about intellect
intellect educated persons
A mugwump is a person educated beyond his intellect. Horace Porter
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 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 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 kicking colonialism
Personally, I regard myself as an intellectual 'rebel,' kicking against the 'old colonialism-imperialism paradigm' which has landed Africa in a conundrum. George Ayittey
intellectual information revolution
This revolution, the information revolution, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy. Steve Jobs
intellectual together glue
It's time that we acknowledge the wisdom women have acquired by managing the chaos of daily life. Women are realists, the glue that holds society together. They bring a reverence to life that's instinctual, not just intellectual. Teresa Heinz
intellectual taste ninety
Ninety percent of the difficulty in your intellectual life would never have happened if you just had better taste. Terence McKenna
intellectual sides debate
In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny. John Stuart Mill
intellectual investing climate
The intellectual and social climate needed to allow entrepreneurship to thrive will not exist in advanced capitalism. Joseph A. Schumpeter
intellectual transportation mundane
Commonplaces are the tramways of intellectual transportation. Jose Ortega y Gasset
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 paint
I was anti-intellectual to the nth. Basically I liked to dance and paint, and that was about it. Joni Mitchell
intellectual wonderful spas
TED was simply wonderful, an intellectual spa, a 21st-century Chataqua, superb and singular. Kurt Andersen
intellectual patterns subjectivity
The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective. Manuel Puig
intellectual moral
I am certainly not an intellectual relativist, nor a moral relativist. Edward Tufte
intellectual negative subjects
My work is never intellectual. I never make a negative unless emotionally moved by my subject. Edward Weston
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 tragedy unemployment
I do not regard the Keynesian revolution as a great intellectual triumph. On the contrary, it was a tragedy because it came so late. Hitler had already found out how to cure unemployment before Keynes had finished explaining why it occured. Joan Robinson
intellectual moments wells
In the immediate as well as the symbolic sense, in the physical as well as the intellectual sense, we are at any moment those who separate the connected, or connect the separate. Georg Simmel
intellectual progress world
Darwin believed in intellectual progress, but he believed that it would come smoothly and harmoniously and happily and it would eventually cover the whole world. James Moore
intellectual mit development
Amherst was pivotal in my broad intellectual development; MIT in my development as a professional economist. Joseph Stiglitz
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 moral misery
There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind. Joseph Conrad
intellectual purpose ripening
Nothing is finer for the purposes of great productions than a very gradual ripening of the intellectual powers. John Keats
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