Intellectual Quotes

There is no need for propaganda to be rich in intellectual content.

Human learning presupposes a specific social nature and a process by which children grow into the intellectual life of those around them

Without courage, you cannot practice any other virtue. You have to have courage - courage of different kinds: first, intellectual courage, to sort out different values and make up your mind about which is the one which is right for you to follow. You have to have moral courage to stick up to that - no matter what comes in your way, no matter what the obstacle and the opposition is.

Growth comes from activity, not from intellectual understanding.

Pimp stands for Positive Intellectual Motivated Person. It has nothing to do with selling sex for money.

The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.

We cannot convince a man to believe any more than we can raise the dead. Such things are the work of God's Spirit. Men are brought to faith only through the supernatural working of God, and He has promised to work-not through human wisdom or intellectual expertise, but through the preaching of Christ crucified and resurrected from the dead!

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

Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.

There's nothing on it worthwhile, and we're not going to watch it in this household, and I don't want it in your intellectual diet.

We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields.

Let me tell you that atheism has never painted a masterpiece. Atheism has never dispelled fear. Atheism has never healed a disease; faith in God has, but not atheism. Atheism has never given anyone piece of mind. Atheism has never dried a tear. Atheism has never given an intellectual answer to the creation. Atheism is bankrupt and empty; it's brain dead.

The intellectual, the moral, the religious seem to me all naturally bound up and interlinked together in one great and harmonious whole.

What is more absurd and more impious than to attribute the name of Lucifer to the devil, that is, to personified evil. The intellectual Lucifer is the spirit of intelligence and love; it is the paraclete, it is the Holy Spirit, while the physical Lucifer is the great agent of universal magnetism.

It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations. Precisely one of the most gratifying results of intellectual evolution is the continuous opening up of new and greater prospects.

We are all racing towards death. No matter how many great, intellectual conclusions we draw during our lives, we know they're all only man-made, like God. I begin to wonder where it all leads. What can you do, except do what you can do as best you know how.

The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers.

Intellectual activity is a danger to the building of character.

I love the intellectual type. They know everything and suspect nothing.

To repress rebellion is to maintain the status quo, a condition which binds the mortal creature in a state of intellectual or physical slavery. But it is impossible to chain man merely by slaving his body; the mind also must be held, and to accomplish this, fear is the accepted weapon. The common man must fear life, fear death, fear God, fear the Devil, and fear most the overlords, the keepers of his destiny.

Intellectual elegance [is] a mind that is continually refining itself with education and knowledge. Intellectual elegance is the opposite of intellectual vulgarity.

When the intellectual part of guitar playing overrides the spiritual, you don't get to extreme heights.

Most men use their knowledge only under guidance from others because they lack the courage to think independently using their own reasoning abilities. It takes intellectual daring to discover the truth.

Mindgasm (noun) - An exhilarating neurostorm of intense intellectual pleasure. Fully revelatory understanding of a certain topic. Involuntary contractions of brain muscles usually accompanied by the overwhelming sensation of truth proximity. Visionarism. State of awe.

When you feel perpetually unmotivated, you start questioning your existence in an unhealthy way; everything becomes a pseudo intellectual question you have no interest in responding whatsoever. This whole process becomes your very skin and it does not merely affect you; it actually defines you. So, you see yourself as a shadowy figure unworthy of developing interest, unworthy of wondering about the world - profoundly unworthy in every sense and deeply absent in your very presence.

I want people to know what it is they're looking at. But at the same time, the closer they get to the painting, it's like going back into childhood. And it's like an abstract piece.. it becomes the landscape of the brush marks rather than just sort of an intellectual landscape.

It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble.

Reduce intellectual and emotional noise until you arrive at the silence of yourself and listen to it.

Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition.

All the civilizations we know have been created and directed by small intellectual aristocracies, never by people in the mass. The power of crowds is only to destroy.

Mystery is an intellectual process... But suspense is essentially an emotional process.

I refuse to engage in an intellectual battle with an unarmed man.

I found that I faced a highly complex situation, and that I couldnt hope to change it until I had armed myself with the necessary psychological and intellectual capacity. My contemplation of life and human nature in that secluded place had taught me that he who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality, and will never, therefore, make any process.

I wanted to do something far from my intellectual and physical home, so I went to live in Beijing for eight months and took Mandarin Chinese.

You will not persuade me with appeals to my intellectual vanity.

The rapists of the intellectual world become politicians; the seducers become artists.

All propaganda must be popular and its intellectual level must be adjusted to the most limited intelligence among those it is addressed to.

An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.

Every mind has a horizon in respect to its present intellectual capacity but not in respect to its future intellectual capacity.

Blind belief can be comforting, but it can easily cripple reason and productivity, and stop intellectual progress.

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

It is time for us to take off our masks, to step out from behind our personas - whatever they might be: educators, activists, biologists, geologists, writers, farmers, ranchers, and bureaucrats - and admit we are lovers, engaged in an erotics of place. Loving the land. Honoring its mysteries. Acknowledging, embracing the spirit of place - there is nothing more legitimate and there is nothing more true. That is why we are here. That is why we do what we do. There is nothing intellectual about it. We love the land. It is a primal affair.

One can remain alive ... if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity interested in big things and happy in small ways.

Be wary of the arrogant intellectual who comments from the stands without having played on the field.

Deafness, though it be total and congenital, imposes no limits on the intellectual development of its subjects, save in the single direction of the appreciation of acoustic phenomena.

The intellectual advancement of man depends on how often he can exchange an old superstition for a new truth.

In a world in which there is so much to interest, so much to enjoy, and so much also to correct and improve, everyone who has this moderate amount of moral and intellectual requisites is capable of an existence which may be called enviable; and unless such a person, through bad laws, or subjection to the will of others, is denied the liberty to use the sources of happiness within his reach, he will not fail to find the enviable existence

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.

Never confuse faith, or belief — of any kind — with something even remotely intellectual.

Look, I'm not an intellectual - I just take pictures.