Most intellectuals today have a phobia of any explanation of the mind that invokes genetics.
I think of myself as a theater animal instead of an intellectual animal.
It was always said that the big distinction between the French and the English is that the English are intelligent and the French are intellectual.
The 'We Have Overcome' generation has run out of intellectual creativity but refuses to leave the political stage.
To be black and an intellectual in America is to live in a box. On the box is a label, not of my own choosing.
Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.
The 'free-floating intellectual' may occupy himself with problems because of their inherent interest and importance, perhaps to little effect.
As things stand the "intellectuals" only come out to lick the bones left over by the tyrant.
The true traveller is the one urged to move about for physical, aesthetic, intellectual as well as spiritual reasons.
Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.
The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
Just as characteristic, perhaps, is the intellectual interdependence created through the development of the modern media of communication: post, telegraph, telephone, and popular press.
We are united in the hope that every individual will someday enjoy at least the intellectual privileges we have had, if not always the material advantages.
Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance.
People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.
But it is one of these sort of mythologies about America and its intellectual history, that the right embraced this thing called social Darwinism, when it never did so.
Systematic philosophical and practical anti-intellectualism such as we are witnessing appears to be something truly novel in the history of human culture.
There is an interior style we intellectuals and design policy wonks know as Haut Euro Pooftastic, which really takes the biscuit.
I think one of the unique aspects of Catholic school education is the opportunity to care for the material and intellectual needs of the child in a community atmosphere.
I have spent a good part of my life showing what an intellectual bubble the Left lives in.
I don't pick roles based on how famous they are going to make me; I pick roles based on how they're going to inspire me intellectually.
