Quotes of: Intellectuals Keyword

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.

John Maynard Keynes

God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.

Joseph Campbell

Intellectually, now, I believe that it is a complete vanity to say positively there is no God.

John Rhys-Davies

Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.

Marcel Proust

My father was a classic intellectual. From him I learned devotion, and I also learned about the life of the mind.

Brian Dennehy

I am certainly not an intellectual relativist, nor a moral relativist.

Edward Tufte

Be careful not to appear obsessively intellectual. When intelligence fills up, it overflows a parody.

Criss Jami

God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than He is of any other slacker.

C.S. Lewis

I hate people who over intellectualize. It bores me deeply.

Carine Roitfeld

The human mind demands intellectual expansion and expression.

Brandon Notch

I was very intellectually oriented, very early on.

Donald Johanson

The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.

George Orwell

Marquise de Merteuil: Like most intellectuals, he's intensely stupid.

Dangerous Liaisons

Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.

E. O. Wilson

The power of real debate is in the language and intellectual honesty of the debaters, alongside the engagement of spectators.

Ruzwana Bashir

Since the 18th century, many Western intellectuals have predicted religion's imminent demise.

Jonathan Sacks

Jesuits encourage an intellectual rigor in a way that I like.

Alexander Payne

It's the job of intellectuals and writers to cast doubt on perfection.

Antonio Tabucchi

There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side.

Vaclav Havel

Intellectuals who live in Hungary, or who wish to work or lecture there, are extremely circumspect in their criticism.

Hari Kunzru

Respectable opinion would never consider an assessment of the Reagan Doctrine or earlier exercises in terms of their actual human costs, and could not comprehend that such an assessment—which would yield a monstrous toll if accurately conducted on ...

The Culture of Terrorism