Quotes about intellect
intellectual spoons shovels
Intellectual food is like any other; it is pleasanter and more beneficial to take it with a spoon than a shovel. Mark Twain
intellectual satisfaction accepting
Liberalism provided me with an intellectual satisfaction that I never found in fundamentalism. I became so enamored of the insights of liberalism that I almost fell into the trap of accepting uncritically everything it encompassed. Martin Luther King, Jr.
intellectual venture invention
Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention. Nathan Myhrvold
intellectual needs want
You need a prince to make a town in an intellectual sense. Developers want to make money. If they cared about architecture, they'd become architects. I've had so many projects that never came off because they had no sponsor, and not because they were utopian. I just want to build a town that's normal. Leon Krier
intellectual tests feels
For me this is the vital litmus test: no intellectual society can flourish where a Jew feels even slightly uneasy. Paul Johnson
intellectual financial trump
Intellectual capital will always trump financial capital. Paul Tudor Jones
intellectual asking ears
To ask for a purely intellectual proof of the existence of God is like asking for the privilege of being able to see with your ears! Meher Baba
intellect fathom
Love can attain what the intellect cannot fathom.
intellectual together glue
It's time that we acknowledge the wisdom women have acquired by managing the chaos of daily life. Women are realists, the glue that holds society together. They bring a reverence to life that's instinctual, not just intellectual. Teresa Heinz
intellectual taste ninety
Ninety percent of the difficulty in your intellectual life would never have happened if you just had better taste. Terence McKenna
intellectual passionate argument
There's nothing so passionate as a vested interest disguised as an intellectual conviction. Sean O'Casey
intellectual might instruments
Everything we know has its origins in questions. Questions, we might say, are the principal intellectual instruments available to human beings. Neil Postman
intellectual sides actors
There is a lot lacking on the intellectual side and on the values side when being an actor. Natalie Portman
intellectual moral misery
There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind. Joseph Conrad
intellectual purpose ripening
Nothing is finer for the purposes of great productions than a very gradual ripening of the intellectual powers. John Keats
intellectual intense cricketers
I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual. Rahul Dravid
intellectual logic faith-in-god
Faith in God goes beyond intellectual presentation and logic. Radhanath Swami
intellectual society credit
Besides the general infusion of wit to heighten civility, the direct splendor of intellectual power is ever welcome in fine society, as the costliest addition to its rule and its credit. Ralph Waldo Emerson
intellectual composer
I'm not an intellectual composer. Les Baxter
intellectual mit development
Amherst was pivotal in my broad intellectual development; MIT in my development as a professional economist. Joseph Stiglitz
intellectual patterns subjectivity
The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective. Manuel Puig
intellectual analysts old-fashioned
I'm old-fashioned, a storyteller. I'm not an analyst and I'm not an intellectual. John Irving
intellectual belief kind
Never confuse faith, or belief—of any kind—with something even remotely intellectual.
intellectual opinion rebellion
When your thoughts and opinions become intellectual gods in rebellion against the Word of God, you are in idolatry. John Hagee
intellectual tragedy unemployment
I do not regard the Keynesian revolution as a great intellectual triumph. On the contrary, it was a tragedy because it came so late. Hitler had already found out how to cure unemployment before Keynes had finished explaining why it occured. Joan Robinson
intellectual moments wells
In the immediate as well as the symbolic sense, in the physical as well as the intellectual sense, we are at any moment those who separate the connected, or connect the separate. Georg Simmel
intellectual economic burden
It will be sufficient to point to the enormous burdens which armaments place on the economic, social, and intellectual resources of a nation, as well as on its budget and taxes. Ludwig Quidde
intellectual dare
Who dares to be intellectual in the presence of death? Freya Stark
intellectual progress world
Darwin believed in intellectual progress, but he believed that it would come smoothly and harmoniously and happily and it would eventually cover the whole world. James Moore
intellectual moral
I am certainly not an intellectual relativist, nor a moral relativist. Edward Tufte
intellectual negative subjects
My work is never intellectual. I never make a negative unless emotionally moved by my subject. Edward Weston
intellectual events culture
I began demonstrating against serious culture. In hindsight, the actual course of events has been very humiliating for me, because no one picked up on the intellectual critique I made. Henry Flynt
intellectual style canada
The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants. Camille Paglia