Intellectual Quotes
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In mysticism that love of truth which we saw as the beginning of all philosophy leaves the merely intellectual sphere, and takes on the assured aspect of a personal passion. Where the philosopher guesses and argues, the mystic lives and looks; and speaks, consequently, the disconcerting language of first-hand experience, not the neat dialectic of the schools. Hence whilst the Absolute of the metaphysicians remains a diagram —impersonal and unattainable—the Absolute of the mystics is lovable, attainable, alive.
Evelyn Underhill
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My sense of designing is a mix of intuition and intellectual control.
Olivier Theyskens
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Develop all four intelligences. PQ (physical intelligence) which represents 70 trillion cells that fight disease and digest your breakfast. IQ (intellectual intelligence) EQ (emotional intelligence) the sensing and wisdom of the heart - - and SQ (spiritual intelligence) having to do with meaning, purpose and integrity around your selected value system and your believed source. When combined, they change the world for good.
Stephen Covey
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I refuse to engage in an intellectual battle with an unarmed man.
Albert Einstein
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What is mind but motion in the intellectual sphere?
Oscar Wilde
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But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.
Oscar Wilde
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Our intellectual development in the field of science has outstripped our human development in the field of character.
Lawrence Pearsall Jacks
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When the intellectual part of guitar playing overrides the spiritual, you don't get to extreme heights.
John Anthony Frusciante
Ataxia
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Ten years from now, I'll probably be an accountant or something, maybe a rocket scientist. That's what I'm aiming for. I've got a few degrees, I'm actually going to Yale, yeah. I'm pretty intellectual, yeah, you know, whatever you call it.
Ben Gillies
Silverchair
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It's probably an intellectual weakness, but I look at the stars, and I say, 'There's something bigger than us out there.'
Dan Brown
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The onslaught of new and complex information, the academic and thinktank cults of expertise, not to mention the impossibility of bohemia in the age of high rents, have conspired to assassinate the public intellectual.
Pankaj Mishra
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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.
Stephen Carter
