Quotes of: Intellectual-life Keyword

It is a secret which every intellectual man quickly learns, that, beyond the energy of his possessed and conscious intellect, he is capable of a new energy (as of an intellect doubled on itself), by abandonment to the nature of things; that, beside h...

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If it has been revealed to man that the Almighty made him out of the dust of the earth, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, it is in vain to tell a Christian that man was originally a speck of albumen, and passed through the stages of ...

David Brewster

Intellectually and compassionately explaining the reason freedom works is required for credibility.

End the Fed

Instead of mascots, there should be mass cots, because these sports fanatics are intellectually asleep.


Sleepwalking is restercise

Intellectualism is a poor master over passion

The Universes of God: The Chronicles of the Angels

Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, but to find intellectual capital - the world's best talents and greatest ideas.

Jack Welch

Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development.

Oscar Wilde

It is not possible to be intellectually honest and believe in gods. And it is not possible to believe in gods and be a true scientist.

Peter Atkins

I think if I hadn't become a sociologist, I would have become very anti-intellectual.

Pierre Bourdieu

Mathematics ... is indispensable as an intellectual technique. In many subjects, to think at all is to think like a mathematician.

Robert Maynard Hutchins

Most intellectuals today have a phobia of any explanation of the mind that invokes genetics.

Steven Pinker

I think of myself as a theater animal instead of an intellectual animal.

Tom Stoppard

It was always said that the big distinction between the French and the English is that the English are intelligent and the French are intellectual.

Kenneth Baker

The 'We Have Overcome' generation has run out of intellectual creativity but refuses to leave the political stage.

Manning Marable

To be black and an intellectual in America is to live in a box. On the box is a label, not of my own choosing.

Stephen Carter

Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.

Noam Chomsky

The 'free-floating intellectual' may occupy himself with problems because of their inherent interest and importance, perhaps to little effect.

Noam Chomsky

As things stand the "intellectuals" only come out to lick the bones left over by the tyrant.

Nilantha Ilangamuwa

The true traveller is the one urged to move about for physical, aesthetic, intellectual as well as spiritual reasons.

Ella Maillart

Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.

John F. Kennedy

The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.

Sallust