Quotes of: Intellectual-life Keyword

Doing what has never been done before is intellectually seductive, whether or not we deem it practical.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.

Raymond Aron

The most crucial problem with intellectual learning is that it receives the unknown on the grounds of the known.

Raheel Farooq

Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

Swami Vivekananda

It is not in the gene of an Intellectually blinded person to experience the paradise in the writer's imagination.

Michael Bassey Johnson

An expenditure of words without income of ideas will lead to intellectual bankruptcy.

Ravi Zacharias

Bass players are always the intellectual kind, but nobody knows it.

Stanley Clarke

I approached the bulk of my schoolwork as a chore rather than an intellectual adventure.

Steven Chu

The greatest danger to the State is independent intellectual criticism.

Murray N. Rothbard

People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect.

Tadao Ando

We, as conservative intellectuals, should not be in the business of making excuses for bad parliamentary decisions by Republican leaders in Congress.

David Frum

I would like to make a building as intellectually driven as it is sculptural and as positive as it would be acceptable to hope.

Frank Gehry

Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.

Ambrose Bierce

I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing.

Richard Rorty

The thing is, my dad's always been more of a bookworm; he was interested in more intellectual pursuits, but nobody can escape the passion that football stirs.

Shakira

Not everyone realises that to write a really good piece of journalism is at least as demanding intellectually as the achievement of any scholar.

Max Weber

The teacher who would be true to his mission and accomplish the most good, must give prominence to moral as well as intellectual instruction.

Sheldon Jackson

Religiously the Empire was pluralistic and marked by a search for a faith which would be satisfying intellectually and ethically and would give assurance of immortality.

Kenneth Scott Latourette

After learning the language and culture of the Chinese people, these Jesuits began to establish contacts with the young intellectuals of the country.

Hu Shih

Learning without thought is labor lost. Thought without learning is intellectual death.

Confucius

Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.

Chuck Palahniuk