Quotes of: Intellectual Keyword

I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.

Randall Jarrell

Sports and entertainment are the only places where inner-city kids see themselves being able to succeed. Their intellectual development is something they don't relate to.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I went to medical school after having decided to do so somewhere between my junior and senior year at Harvard - very late. I initially wanted to be an intellectual historian.

Eric Kandel

A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual.

Anthony Burgess

I don't like to over-intellectualize scenes that are working. I tend to think when you do that you may lose it.

Antonio Banderas

I try to keep a balance between conceptional or intellectual comprehension and emotional understanding.

Alva Noto

You cannot steal somebody's intellectual property. Law and justice protect.

Bikram Choudhury

A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail.

Paul Wellstone

Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic.

Alexis Carrel

A manager’s emotional commitment is worth more than their financial, intellectual and physical commitment combined.

Stan Slap

I never had an intellectual struggle with the Bible, with the gospel, with the claims of Christ.

Tullian Tchividjian

We are born rich, it is for us to decide between materialistic poorness or building upon intellectual richness.

Vishwas Chavan

I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.

William Golding

A book should have an intellectual shape and a heft that comes with dealing with a primary subject.

William Safire

What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.

Manuel Puig

I find that the hardest work in the world... is to persuade Easterners that growing up in the West is not intellectually crippling.

Marilynne Robinson

This ceremony and the intellectual aura associated with the Nobel Prizes have grown from the wisdom of a practical chemist who wrote a remarkable will.

Stanford Moore

In intertwining sentimentality, healing, narcissism, and authority, modern evangelicals give authority to those emotions themselves...The sentimental becomes evidence and authority in a world in which most evangelicals have given up intellectual purs...

Homespun Gospel: The Triumph of Sentimentality in Contemporary American Evangelicalism

It is now established by verifiable evidence that religion stultifies the brain and is the great obstacle in the path of intellectual progress. The more religious a person is, the more he is steeped in ignorance and superstition, the less is his sens...

An Atheist Manifesto

History, practical experience, common sense and economic theory all agree: economic competition is probably one of the greatest ideas humans ever came up with. When people compete to achieve the same goal, great things seem to happen that otherwise w...

Against Intellectual Monopoly

While there are certainly informational spillovers as ideas move from person to person, it is hard to see why in most instances they are not priced. Although it is possible to imagine examples such as the wheelbarrow where an idea cannot be used with...

Against Intellectual Monopoly