Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.
I have some intellectual-type pursuits, like studying philosophy and stuff like that.
The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
The pointless ferocities of intellectual life shock businessmen, who kill only to eat.
All teaching and all intellectual learning come about from already existing knowledge.
From passions grow opinions; intellectual laziness lets these harden into convictions.
History is an indispensable even though not the highest form of intellectual endeavor.
My primary goal of hacking was the intellectual curiosity, the seduction of adventure.
The rapists of the intellectual world become politicians; the seducers become artists.
Mystery is an intellectual process... But suspense is essentially an emotional process.
Ads represent the main channel of intellectual and artistic effort in the modern world.
Baseball is the most intellectual game because most of the action goes on in your head.
The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.
I think, therefore I am' is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.
To answer brutality with brutality is to admit one's moral and intellectual bankruptcy.
To get people emotionally involved in something intellectual and political is important.
Most of the intellectual elite of the USA completely disavow the idea of absolute truth.
I think the freedom to express one's views is more important than intellectual property.
I wish I knew as much about anything today as I knew about everything when I was twenty.
Mere mental, that is, intellectual labour, is for the soul and has its own satisfaction.
One of the things that characterizes good intellectual work is a certain self-importance
Intellectual curiosity drove Einstein to some of the world's most important discoveries.
I approached the bulk of my schoolwork as a chore rather than an intellectual adventure.
Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.
PASTIME, n. A device for promoting dejection. Gentle exercise for intellectual debility.
Objects are inorganic and biological values; subjects are social and intellectual values.
Live a life full of humility, gratitude, intellectual curiosity, and never stop learning.
My parents were reasoned and deep thinkers. My dad is an intellectual and a literary man.
Never confuse faith, or belief — of any kind — with something even remotely intellectual.
I am thoroughly sick of pearls. They make one look so plain, so good and so intellectual.
The underlying intellectual argument for seeking to tax economic rents retains its force.
The means of effective communication are being expropriated from the intellectual worker.
Men's minds must be free, and that means the minds of all, not the minds of a select few.
Lotte Lenya was all emotion. She wasn't anything but emotion. She was not an intellectual.
I have spent a good part of my life showing what an intellectual bubble the Left lives in.
The intellectual power, through words and things, Went sounding on a dim and perilous way!
Boat building is intellectual - everything has a reason. In sculpture, it has a direction.
Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence.
I'm an intellectual, but I've always had jobs that required physical labor above all else.
Self-discipline has a bigger effect on academic performance than does intellectual talent.
There is a lot lacking on the intellectual side and on the values side when being an actor.
There's nothing so passionate as a vested interest disguised as an intellectual conviction.
Creeds and castes, and all forms of intellectual and emotional grouping, belong to the past.
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
TED was simply wonderful, an intellectual spa, a 21st-century Chataqua, superb and singular.
Christianity is not a purely intellectual, internal faith. It can only be lived in community.
The intellectual activity of those without power is always characterized as non-intellectual.
We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields.
Intellectual neutrality is not possible in a historical world of exploitation and oppression.
To be 'in the will of God' is not a matter of intellectual discernment, but a state of heart.