Quotes of: Intellectual-life Keyword

What we now call 'finance' is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.

Robert Graves

Harvard is first and foremost a university and not a consulting operation, and our job here is to teach and to research and to create knowledge on Asia in conjunction and in cooperation with scholars as well as with political, intellectual, and cultu...

William Kirby

Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.

Lewis H. Lapham

Christianity is the greatest intellectual system the mind of man has ever touched.

Francis Schaeffer

Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values.

Gerald Brenan

When public and private sectors combine intellectual and other resources, more can be achieved.

Gro Harlem Brundtland

The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters.

Christopher Lasch

I know I'm intellectually capable of finding a series of things and making hundreds of millions. I have to get there and do it. Carefully. Legally.

Jack Abramoff

The intellectual mind judges a book after having read it. A fool’s mind judges a book by its title.

Ellen J. Barrier

Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.

Erica Jong

The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.

Bertrand Russell

... the director explained to him, in that slow, simplified, style of language that one uses for the intellectually underprivileged,

Gary Edward Gedall

Venezuelan interests are to be defended by Venezuela. The U.S. should defend the interests of the U.S. Where are the U.S. people, where are the intellectuals, who could put limits on their government?

Hugo Chavez

[Seconds before being devoured by zombies] Intellectual: Some of my best friends are pedophiles!

Dead Alive

Marks of Identity is, among other things, the expression of the process of alienation in a contemporary intellectual with respect to his own country.

Juan Goytisolo

I respect those who openly advocate for unlimited immigration to the United States. Open borders is an intellectually coherent, defensible position.

Jan C. Ting

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

Thomas Sowell

My father also happened to be an intellectual, as learned, literate, informed, and curious as anyone I have known. Unobtrusively and casually, he was my wise and gentle teacher.

James Tobin

My mom told me as a youngster I was always intellectual, like as far as being able to adapt fast and quick. But I had a fun childhood, went to regular school.

Chris Brown

Distress at losing an object can be as much a frustration at the intellectual mystery of the disappearance as about the loss itself.

Alain de Botton

An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.

Aldous Huxley