Quotes about intellect
intellectual belief kind
Never confuse faith, or belief—of any kind—with something even remotely intellectual. John Irving
intellectual fans action
I had to satisfy the action fans, the romantic fans, the intellectual fans. It was a terrific burden. Sidney Poitier
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 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 mit development
Amherst was pivotal in my broad intellectual development; MIT in my development as a professional economist. Joseph Stiglitz
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 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 culture moral
Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one Matthew Arnold
intellect knows
We know not through our intellect but through our experience. Maurice Merleau-Ponty
intellectual nihilism world
A great deal of time and intellectual force are lost in the world, because the false seems great and the truth so small and insignificant. Maria Montessori
intellectual invention force
All our inventions have endowed material forces with intellectual life, and degraded human life into a material force. Karl Marx
intellectual south-carolina roles
The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina. Pat Conroy
intellectual needs want
You need a prince to make a town in an intellectual sense. Developers want to make money. If they cared about architecture, they'd become architects. I've had so many projects that never came off because they had no sponsor, and not because they were utopian. I just want to build a town that's normal. Leon Krier
intellectual satisfaction accepting
Liberalism provided me with an intellectual satisfaction that I never found in fundamentalism. I became so enamored of the insights of liberalism that I almost fell into the trap of accepting uncritically everything it encompassed. Martin Luther King, Jr.
intellectual venture invention
Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention. Nathan Myhrvold
intellectual world crime
The intellectual world is deeply conformist... We talk a lot about the crimes of others. When it comes to our own crimes, we are nationalists in the Orwellian sense. Noam Chomsky
intellectual floating may
The 'free-floating intellectual' may occupy himself with problems because of their inherent interest and importance, perhaps to little effect.
intellectual truism
You don't get to be a respected intellectual by uttering truisms in monosyllables.
intellectual privilege moral
Moral cowardice and intellectual corruption are the natural concomitants of unchallenged privilege.
intellectual tests feels
For me this is the vital litmus test: no intellectual society can flourish where a Jew feels even slightly uneasy. Paul Johnson
intellectual facts truth-is
The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value. Oscar Wilde
intellectual listening development
I am afraid that you have been listening to the conversation of someone older than yourself. That is always a dangerous thing to do, and if you allow it to degenerate into a habit, you will find it absolutely fatal to any intellectual development.
intellectual mind spheres
What is mind but motion in the intellectual sphere?
intellectual academia virtue
Most areas of intellectual life have discovered the virtues of speculation, and have embraced them wildly. In academia, speculation is usually dignified as theory. Michael Crichton
intellectual amusement demand
Literary commercialism is lowering the intellectual standard to accommodate the purse and to meet a frivolous demand for amusement instead of for improvement. Mary Baker Eddy
intellectual labels
I don't like the intellectual label.
intellectual spoons shovels
Intellectual food is like any other; it is pleasanter and more beneficial to take it with a spoon than a shovel. Mark Twain
intellectual elements harmony
Music contains a whole gamut of experience, from sensuous elements to ultimate intellectual harmonies. George Santayana
intellectual world today
The mediocrity of everything in the great world of today is simply appalling. We live in intellectual slums.