Quotes of: Intellectual-life Keyword

Just as characteristic, perhaps, is the intellectual interdependence created through the development of the modern media of communication: post, telegraph, telephone, and popular press.

Christian Lous Lange

We are united in the hope that every individual will someday enjoy at least the intellectual privileges we have had, if not always the material advantages.

Sidney Altman

Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance.

Clifford Geertz

People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.

Caroline Kennedy

But it is one of these sort of mythologies about America and its intellectual history, that the right embraced this thing called social Darwinism, when it never did so.

Jonah Goldberg

Systematic philosophical and practical anti-intellectualism such as we are witnessing appears to be something truly novel in the history of human culture.

Johan Huizinga

There is an interior style we intellectuals and design policy wonks know as Haut Euro Pooftastic, which really takes the biscuit.

Peter York

I think one of the unique aspects of Catholic school education is the opportunity to care for the material and intellectual needs of the child in a community atmosphere.

Mark Foley

I don't pick roles based on how famous they are going to make me; I pick roles based on how they're going to inspire me intellectually.

Erin Daniels

Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.

George McGovern

I think Chris Rock at the Oscars was a great example. I thought that was intellectually hilarious. The Gap starts a war with Banana Republic... That to me was funny.

Christopher Meloni

God is back and Europe as a whole still doesn't get it. It is our biggest single collective cultural and intellectual blind spot.

Jonathan Sacks

I'm strictly for Stevenson. I don't dig the intellectual bit, but I'm telling you, man, he knows the most.

Elvis Presley

I don't like to intellectualize about my acting. I don't sit around and study the pages of a script over and over again.

Genevieve Bujold

Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty.

Claude Levi-Strauss

Telly never has any smart, amusing intellectuals living on a council estate.

Caitlin Moran

Creeds and castes, and all forms of intellectual and emotional grouping, belong to the past.

Herbert Read

Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.

Jorge Luis Borges

[T]he longer you stay skeptical, doubtful, intellectually uncomfortable, the better it is for you.

Joseph Brodsky

Reading . . . is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.

Jorge Luis Borges