Quotes about intellectual
intellectual tragedy values
It is a part of the intellectual's tragedy that the things he most values about himself and his work are quite unlike those society values in him... Richard Hofstadter
intellectual filters would-be
If culture did not filter, it would be inane - as inane as the formless, boundless Internet is on its own. And if we all possessed the boundless knowledge of the Web, we would be idiots! Culture is an instrument for making a hierarchical system of intellectual labor. Umberto Eco
intellectual way intellect
The intellectual power, through words and things, Went sounding on a dim and perilous way! William Wordsworth
intellectual film kung-fu
Someone like Jean-Luc Godard is for me intellectual counterfeit money when compared to a good kung fu film. Werner Herzog
intellectual atheism matter
It is the inevitable effect of religion on public policy that makes it a matter of public concern. Advocates of religiosity extol the virtues or moral habits that religion is supposed to instill in us. But we should be equally concerned with the intellectual habits it discourages.
intellectual disease
Squareness is such a uniquely intellectual disease. Robert M. Pirsig
intellectual socialism communism
Communism and socialism, programs for intellectual control over society ... fascism, a program for the social control of intellect.
intellectual important information
The information revolution has changed wealth. Intellectual capital is far more important than money. Walter Wriston
intellectual investing climate
The intellectual and social climate needed to allow entrepreneurship to thrive will not exist in advanced capitalism. Joseph A. Schumpeter
intellectual transportation mundane
Commonplaces are the tramways of intellectual transportation. Jose Ortega y Gasset
intellectual may stuff
I'm not interested in the fact that a writer may label himself as being intellectual or anti-intellectual. l'm really interested in the stuff he's turning out. Jorge Luis Borges
intellectual paint
I was anti-intellectual to the nth. Basically I liked to dance and paint, and that was about it. Joni Mitchell
intellectual wonderful spas
TED was simply wonderful, an intellectual spa, a 21st-century Chataqua, superb and singular. Kurt Andersen
intellectual kicking colonialism
Personally, I regard myself as an intellectual 'rebel,' kicking against the 'old colonialism-imperialism paradigm' which has landed Africa in a conundrum. George Ayittey
intellectual alive morality
Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties. James Anthony Froude
intellectual sloth cynicism
Cynicism is only intellectual sloth. Henry Rollins
intellectual vacuums behinds
Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum. Henry A. Kissinger
intellectual vices hopeless
Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice. George Gissing
intellectual matter way
Nothing so offends the doctrinaire intellectual as our ability to achieve the momentous in a matter-of-fact way, unblessed by words. Eric Hoffer
intellectual nationality
I have no nationality - the best possible status for an intellectual. Emile M. Cioran
intellectual world crime
The intellectual world is deeply conformist... We talk a lot about the crimes of others. When it comes to our own crimes, we are nationalists in the Orwellian sense. Noam Chomsky
intellectual floating may
The 'free-floating intellectual' may occupy himself with problems because of their inherent interest and importance, perhaps to little effect.
intellectual truism
You don't get to be a respected intellectual by uttering truisms in monosyllables.
intellectual privilege moral
Moral cowardice and intellectual corruption are the natural concomitants of unchallenged privilege.
intellectual invention force
All our inventions have endowed material forces with intellectual life, and degraded human life into a material force. Karl Marx
intellectual south-carolina roles
The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina. Pat Conroy
intellectual doe
To be intellectual does not require one to be alienated and oppositional. Nancy Pearcey
intellectual records treasure
Cablegate is 3,000 volumes of material. It is the greatest intellectual treasure to have entered into the public record in modern times. Julian Assange
intellectual great-things
One of the great things about songwrighting; it's not an intellectual experience Keith Richards
intellectual amusement demand
Literary commercialism is lowering the intellectual standard to accommodate the purse and to meet a frivolous demand for amusement instead of for improvement. Mary Baker Eddy
intellectual labels
I don't like the intellectual label.
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.