Quotes of: Intellectuals Keyword

An intellectual may be interested in ideas and policies for their own sake, but a politician's interest is exclusively in the question of whether an idea's time has come.

Michael Ignatieff

I try to be feminine, yet intellectual and smart at the same time. You don't see enough of that.

Portia de Rossi

The forces that are driving mankind toward unity and peace are deep-seated and powerful. They are material and natural, as well as moral and intellectual.

Arthur Henderson

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

John Adams

In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

Simone Weil

The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected.

George Henry Lewes

There's nothing but spirit in music. That's all it is. Yeah, there's a lot of intellectual elements to it, but no matter how you approach it, it's all spirit.

Amos Lee

The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other.

Albert Camus

Deep” to me connotes intellectual rigor, not fashionable obscurity or the unnecessarily academic.

Alex Payne

Play reaches the habits most needed for intellectual growth.

Bruno Bettelheim

Later the place was as deserted as Malcolm Muggeridge's Christmas party of fellow intellectuals.

William Donaldson

All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.

Calvin Coolidge

In the end, there's something of the puritan work ethic about me that roles really must sustain me on an intellectual level.

Damian Lewis

Intellectually and compassionately explaining the reason freedom works is required for credibility.

End the Fed

Instead of mascots, there should be mass cots, because these sports fanatics are intellectually asleep. 

Sleepwalking is restercise

Intellectualism is a poor master over passion

The Universes of God: The Chronicles of the Angels

Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, but to find intellectual capital - the world's best talents and greatest ideas.

Jack Welch

Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development.

Oscar Wilde

It is not possible to be intellectually honest and believe in gods. And it is not possible to believe in gods and be a true scientist.

Peter Atkins

I think if I hadn't become a sociologist, I would have become very anti-intellectual.

Pierre Bourdieu

Mathematics ... is indispensable as an intellectual technique. In many subjects, to think at all is to think like a mathematician.

Robert Maynard Hutchins