I say that I represent this movement because my intellectual allegiances are clearly European, not African.

When I start writing songs and it turns into an overly belabored intellectual process, I just throw it out.

One thing I don't want around me is a military intellectual. I don't have to worry about you on that score.

Someone like Jean-Luc Godard is for me intellectual counterfeit money when compared to a good kung fu film.

May not men earn their bread by intellectual labor? No, the needs of the body must be supplied by the body.

Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.

A relationship will be futile if it's based just on physicality. Intellectual stimulation is a must for me.

I have known people who are working class or craftsmen, who happen to be more intellectual than professors.

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal.

He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.

Skepticism . . . is not intellectual only it is moral also, a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul.

In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.

The mediocrity of everything in the great world of today is simply appalling. We live in intellectual slums.

Creationism, perhaps the most pernicious of the intellectual perversions now afflicting the American public.

The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters.

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.

Production is not something physical, material, and external; it is a spiritual and intellectual phenomenon.

Amherst was pivotal in my broad intellectual development; MIT in my development as a professional economist.

The price paid for intellectual pacification is the sacrifice of the entire moral courage of the human mind.

Scientific literacy is an intellectual vaccine against the claims of charlatans who would exploit ignorance.

The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.

Intellectual modesty is humility as to what I know; intellectual humility is modesty as to what I do not know

Christianity becomes just a set of things you believe in. It's almost an intellectual kind of abstract issue.

I came from a very intellectual neighborhood. When we played cowboys and Indians as kids, I had to be Gandhi.

An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.

The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.

My own work in spin glass and its consequences has formed some of the intellectual basis for these interests.

Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love.

The intellectual advancement of man depends on how often he can exchange an old superstition for a new truth.

Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development.

For most people, attaining the intellectual clarity and emotional detachment that investing requires is tough.

To be black and an intellectual in America is to live in a box. On the box is a label, not of my own choosing.

Edward Said is a very honorable representative of the "intellectual" in the sense of the term that he defines.

Both total accommodation to the culture and total resistance to it are usually signs of intellectual sickness.

Unbelief is judged by Jesus not as an intellectual error but as a hostile act of prejudice against God himself.

In Shankaracharya we saw tremendous intellectual power, throwing the scorching light of reason upon everything.

I wish to note that intellectual property theft by a government represents the very essence of organized crime.

Nothing is finer for the purposes of great productions than a very gradual ripening of the intellectual powers.

To an intellectual who is adrift in politics, a theory is an aim; to a true politician his theory is a boundary

Owning pipelines, people, products, or even intellectual property is no longer the key to success. Openness is.

I love this idea of trying to create that intellectual eroticism. That was what I was working toward all along.

Your physical, mental and intellectual resources - continually growing and changing - are your personal capital.

Not by force of arms are civilizations held together, but by subtle threads of moral and intellectual principle.

The rare scholars who are nomads-by-choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines.

In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side-by-side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand.

Intellectual food is like any other; it is pleasanter and more beneficial to take it with a spoon than a shovel.

We hold from God the gift which includes all others. This gift is life - physical, intellectual, and moral life.

My pacifism is not based on any intellectual theory but on a deep antipathy to every form of cruelty and hatred.

A longer time perspective is needed because we face a daunting task both in an intellectual and practical sense.

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