Intellectual Quotes

• The stricter standards and independent, often conclusive, evidence in the physical sciences cannot be generalized to intellectual activity as a whole, even though the aura of scientific processes and results is often appropriated by other intellectuals.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Independent
  • Process
  • Results

• Things like Kitchen Cabinet, I'm not sure they necessarily tell the Australian people whether you have judgement, whether you have discernment, whether you have intellectual acuity, whether you are able to develop policy, whether you are able to represent individual cases to the highest levels of government successfully and in a manner that actually achieves outcomes.

  

  Eric Abetz
  • Individual
  • Achieve
  • Kitchen

• It is a lie to write in such way as to be rewarded by fame offered you by some snobbish quasi-literary groups in the intellectual gazettes.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Writing
  • Way
  • Lying

• The "Creed of Christendom" is alien to my nature, both emotional and intellectual.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Emotional
  • Intellectual
  • Christendom

• There is no contradiction between technology and spirit. There is no contradiction between the search for intellectual integration and understanding and the psychedelic experience. There is no contradiction between ultra-advanced hyperspacial cyber culture and Paleolithic archaic culture. We have come to the end of our sojourn in matter. We have come to the end of our separateness.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Culture
  • Technology
  • Understanding

• One must treat theory-in-use as both a psychological certainty and an intellectual hypothesis.

  

  Chris Argyris
  • Theory
  • Certainty
  • Psychological

• I call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a passive or hereditary faith, which opens itself to light whencesoever it may come, which receives new truth as an angel from Heaven.

  

  William Ellery Channing
  • Men
  • Heaven
  • Angel

• The intellectual is, quite simply, a human being who has a pencil in his or her hand when reading a book.

  

  George Steiner
  • Book
  • Intellectual
  • Pencil

• The intellectual who no longer feels attached to anything is not satisfied with opinion merely; he wants certainty, he wants a system. The revolution provides him with his opium.

  

  Raymond Aron
  • Revolution
  • Satisfied
  • Certainty

• I think that all journalists, specifically print journalists, have a responsibility to educate the public. When you handle a culture's intellectual property, like journalists do, you have a responsibility not to tear it down, but to raise it up. The depiction of rap and of hip-hop culture in the media, I think, is one that needs more of a responsible approach from journalists.

  

  Lawrence "Kris" Parker Boogie Down Productions
  • Thinking
  • Responsibility
  • Tears

• Do I have a problem with Larry Ellison buying Sun? No, that's part of the capitalist system. As soon as we go public we're for sale, that's part of the deal. And do I have a problem with him exercising his intellectual property rights? No, I don't have a problem with that. Would it be how we necessarily ran and operated? Obviously not.

  

  Scott McNealy
  • Problem
  • Exercise
  • Capitalist

• Challenging unfairly subsidized products, fighting counterfeit goods and intellectual property theft and holding countries accountable for an unfair currency regime will help American companies remain competitive.

  

  Virginia Foxx
  • Country
  • Fighting
  • Challenges

• Whether or not it is ultimately the best of all conceivable scripts for Korean, Hangeul must unquestionably rank as one of the great intellectual achievements of humankind.

  

  Geoffrey Sampson
  • Achievement
  • Intellectual
  • Humankind

• I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing.

  

  Richard Rorty
  • History
  • Books
  • Interested

• I think the more stability a person has, the more they can follow esoteric or intellectual pursuits.

  

  Elaine Equi
  • I Think
  • Intellectual
  • Stability

• So, ultimately, in order to understand nature it may be necessary to have a deeper understanding of mathematical relationships. But the real reason is that the subject is enjoyable, and although we humans cut nature up in different ways, and we have different courses in different departments, such compartmentaliz ation is really artificial, and we should take our intellectual pleasures where we find them.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Different
  • Real
  • Reason

• The high intellectual value of images, however, lies in the fact that they usually, and perhaps always, fit more than one actual experience.

  

  Susanne Langer
  • Lying
  • Values
  • Facts

• I am just as deaf as I am blind. The problems of deafness are deeper and more complex, if not more important than those of blindness. Deafness is a much worse misfortune. For it means the loss of the most vital stimulus- the sound of the voice that brings language, sets thoughts astir, and keeps us in the intellectual company of man.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Men
  • Important
  • Mean

• Great writers, I discovered, were not to be bowed down before and worshipped, but embraced and befriended. Their names resounded through history not because they had massive brows and thought deep incomprehensible thoughts, but because they opened windows in the mind, they put their arms round you and showed you things you always knew but never dared to believe. Even if their names were terrifyingly foreign and intellectual sounding, Dostoevsky, Baudelaire or Cavafy, they turned out to be charming and wonderful and quite unalarming after all.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Believe
  • Wonderful
  • Intellectual

• But nothing ever put 'Hoppy' in the shade. No one could fail to recognize in the little inspiration... the authentic gold of intellectual inspiration, the Fundator et Primus Abbas of biochemistry in England.

  

  Joseph Needham
  • Inspiration
  • Intellectual

• Critics I don't understand. They get too intellectual. They're not very well-versed in street talk; it takes them longer to say it. So they have to do it in dictionaries and they take longer to say it.

  

  David Bowie
  • Intellectual
  • Critics
  • Dictionary

• This is a landmark work in the history of African American studies and American intellectual history. Writing with verve, Jackson brings to life a large cast of characters and traces an ongoing conversation among the writers and critics of this period. This book is likely to become a model for a new generation of scholars, both for the breadth of its engagement and the depth of its archival research.

  

  Werner Sollors
  • Writing
  • Generation
  • Engagement

• I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.

  

  William Golding
  • Conviction
  • Optimist
  • Pessimist

• If you are discouraged it is a sign of pride because it shows you trust in your own power. Your self-sufficiency, your selfishness and your intellectual pride will inhibit His coming to live in your heart because God cannot fill what is already full. It is as simple as that.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Heart
  • Simple
  • Pride

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