Quotes of: Intellectualism Keyword

Although the view that, once discovered, ideas can be imitated for free by anybody is pervasive, it is far from the truth. While it may occasionally be the case that an idea is acquired at no cost—ideas are generally difficult to communicate, and t...

Against Intellectual Monopoly

I want to do what little I can to make my country truly free, to broaden the intellectual horizon of our people, to destroy the prejudices born of ignorance and fear, to do away with the blind worship of the ignoble past, with the idea that all the g...

Some Mistakes of Moses

The work of the philosophical policeman," replied the man in blue, "is at once bolder and more subtle than that of the ordinary detective. The ordinary detective goes to pot-houses to arrest thieves; we go to artistic tea-parties to detect pessimists...

G.K. Chesterton

A brick can be used as a nickname for people who are slow, both physically and intellectually. 

Brick and Blanket

Country and western is ignored by the intellectuals. They don't look at it as an art form. They think it's just somebody sitting on his couch singing about his life.

Ricky Skaggs

Beer's intellectual. What a shame so many idiots drink it.

The October Country

Clarity is a sign of intellectual energy.

One Big Thing: Discovering What You Were Born to Do

Beauty is intellectually confusing; it sabotages common sense.

An Unsuitable Job for a Woman

The amount of sophistication varies according to the quality of the medium, and to the state of the same medium at different times; it must be attributed in the best cases physiologically to the medium, intellectually to the control.

Oliver Joseph Lodge

Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.

Orson Scott Card

Ulysses was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.

Orson Scott Card

Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic concept.

Robert Bork

There are clearly many Egyptian free-thinkers and intellectuals - lots of wonderful Egyptian artists and architects and scientists.

Richard Engel

It appears the Kochs are among the most defensive billionaires, preferring the comfy confines of their callous and intellectually dishonest world view.

Robert Greenwald

Your mind can grasp intellectual ideas, but it is in the FEELING where the transformation takes place.

Stephen Richards

There is nothing that an intellectual less likes to change than his mind, or a politician his policy.

Theodore Dalrymple

Smart means having intellectual humility rather than high cognitive ability.

Tara Estacaan

We really want to see how the idea of an intellectual action movie is received by the world.

Lana Wachowski

Intellectual growth is when you surpass the barrier of puerility, puzzling people with your dazzling creativity.

Michael Bassey Johnson

The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.

Malcolm Muggeridge

I admit that the eyes of the intellectually and culturally lively tend to glaze over at the mere mention of sociology, often with ample justification.

Richard Wall