Intellectual Quotes
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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 -
George Bush's political, intellectual and other shortcomings cannot be restricted to one sentence.
Emilio Botin
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I set it down as a maxim, that it is good for a man to live where he can meet his betters, intellectual and social.
William Makepeace Thackeray -
Nature has color-coded groups of individuals so that statistically reliable predictions of their adaptability to intellectual rewarding and effective lives can easily be made and profitably used by the pragmatic man-in-the street.
William Shockley -
[ on the "tropicalization" of intellectual property laws ] To make the digital world join in the samba.
Gilberto Gil -
The Americans are completely stupid. The intellectual level in any single European country is higher than in America.
Michel Houellebecq -
Rebecca Goldstein is a rare find among contemporary novelists: she has intellectual muscle as well as a tender emotional reach.
Ian Mcewan -
Men like Henry George are rare, unfortunately. One cannot imagine a more beautiful combination of intellectual keenness, artistic form, and fervent love of justice.
Albert Einstein
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Intellectual capital is the most valuable of all factors of production.
Brian Tracy -
He was not so much brain as earwax
William Shakespeare -
If the person you are trying to diagnose politically is some sort of intellectual, the chances are two to one he is a Democrat.
Vance Packard -
I usually don't share the music with the musicians until right before they have to record their parts, because I hate discussing it and just intellectualizing it on any level. I just want to speak from the subconscious, which knows way more about me than my intellectual side will ever know. Once I start doing the arrangements - what I call the architecture of the song - that has a lot of thought put into it.
Omar Alfredo Rodríguez-López At the Drive-In -
The intellectual's struggle to deny the obvious is never more desperate than when reality is unpleasant and at variance with his preconceptions and when full acknowledgment of it would undermine the foundations of his intellectual worldview.
Anthony Daniels -
Labeling a child's mind as diseased-whether with autism, intellectual disabilities, or transgenderism-may reflect the discomfort that mind gives parents more than any discomfort it causes their child. Much gets corrected that might better have been left alone.
Andrew Solomon
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I'm not known for my intellectual range and tricks have been played on me.
William Sanderson -
However, I think anything is better than high intellectual pressure. That is the most unbecoming thing there is. It makes the noses of the young girls so particularly large.
Oscar Wilde -
I believe that sensory pleasure should take precedence over intellectual pleasure in art and architecture.
Bernard Rudofsky -
Intellectual isolation always follows commercial isolation.
Ignacy Jan Paderewski -
I am not an intellectual. An intellectual is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso, whereas I just say 'pass the mustard'.
Sebastian Horsley -
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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The satisfaction of physical needs is indeed the indispensable pre-condition of a satisfactory existence, but in itself it is not enough. In order to be content, men must also have the possibility of developing their intellectual and artistic powers to whatever extent accords with their personal characteristics and abilities.
Albert Einstein -
I'm really trying to dredge up what one might call intellectual and moral material. For example, when do you realize that you are an American? What age does that happen to you? When do you realize what religion your parents practice? When does it all become conscious? I was interested in exploring all of that.
Paul Auster -
I am thoroughly sick of pearls. They make one look so plain, so good and so intellectual.
Oscar Wilde -
I write out of my intellectual experience.
Tom Stoppard