Quotes about intellectual
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. Oscar Wilde
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. Noam Chomsky
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.
intellectual cynicism dandyism
Cynicism is intellectual dandyism. George Meredith
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 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 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 nationality
I have no nationality - the best possible status for an intellectual. Emile M. Cioran
intellectual moral
I am certainly not an intellectual relativist, nor a moral relativist. Edward Tufte
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 wonderful spas
TED was simply wonderful, an intellectual spa, a 21st-century Chataqua, superb and singular. Kurt Andersen
intellectual shock businessman
The pointless ferocities of intellectual life shock businessmen, who kill only to eat. Mason Cooley
intellectual fields filmmaker
I thought I was going to be a filmmaker but at the same time I was an intellectual and I felt that I could make a contribution to some field, as yet, not invented. Ted Nelson
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 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 fans action
I had to satisfy the action fans, the romantic fans, the intellectual fans. It was a terrific burden. Sidney Poitier
intellectual three lines
Elegance? It may seem odd to non-scientists, but there is an aesthetic in software as there is in every other area of intellectual endeavour. Truly great programmers are like great poets or great mathematicians - they can achieve in a few lines what lesser mortals can only approach in three volumes John Naughton
intellectual church
The questions of today's average young person, who is the product of America's intellectual bastions, have been virtually unaddressed by the church. Ravi Zacharias
intellectual absolute-truth
Most of the intellectual elite of the USA completely disavow the idea of absolute truth.
intellectual matter way
Nothing so offends the doctrinaire intellectual as our ability to achieve the momentous in a matter-of-fact way, unblessed by words. Eric Hoffer
intellectual alive morality
Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties. James Anthony Froude
intellectual sloth cynicism
Cynicism is only intellectual sloth. Henry Rollins
intellectual vacuums behinds
Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum. Henry A. Kissinger
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