Quotes of: Intellectual-life Keyword

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.

Bill Gates

Engineering is not only study of 45 subjects but it is moral studies of intellectual life.

Prakhar Srivastav

The reward of a work is to have produced it; the reward of effort is to have grown by it.

The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods

Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.

G. M. Trevelyan

One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.

William Lyon Phelps

Our family life was certainly not intellectual.

Douglass North

Most board meetings amount to little more than intellectual masturbation. They are ideas that cause thrills, chills, and satisfaction, but there is no impregnation. Nothing is ever born of them. It’s intellectual masturbation.

Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

For many decades now - and certainly during my adult life in academe - the Western intellectual world has not been convinced that theology is a pursuit that can be engaged in with intellectual honesty and integrity.

Arthur Peacocke

A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.

Rita Mae Brown

We have to recognise that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence.

Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life

I was utterly convinced that an intellectual could never be anything but an intellectual, was simply not capable of being anything else, that his intellectuality would, sooner or later, erode his faith or erode whatever he'd masked it with . . . For ...

Partings

Friendship is an obstetric art; it draws out our richest and deepest resources; it unfolds the wings of our dreams and hidden indeterminate thoughts; it serves as a check on our judgements, tries out our new ideas, keeps up our ardor, and inflames ou...

The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods

The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.

Pat Conroy

I believe that it is impossible for two individuals not committed to their own and each other’s well being to sustain a healthy and enduring relationship.

Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life

I have spent a good part of my life showing what an intellectual bubble the Left lives in.

Dennis Prager

One of the categories of people I don't like much are intellectuals. People say, 'Oh, you're an intellectual,' and I say, 'No!' What is an intellectual? An intellectual is somebody who thinks ideas are more important than people.

Paul Johnson

I've always been interested in intellectual history and in psychology, and anxiety is obviously something that's been a big part of my life.

Scott Stossel

To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Intellectualism came very late to America. That's why Americans are so proud of it. I found very few real intellectuals in America. But there are so many pseudo-intellectuals.

Douglas Sirk

Fools live life; intellectuals only think thoughts arising from borrowed knowledge. That is why fools enjoy life while so called wise people are busy posting tweets about life. Unfortunately, I am a wise man.

Saurabh Sharma

It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.

David Attenborough