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Intellectual Quotes

Most Famous Intellectual Quotes of All Time!

Good intellectual work, this collection suggests, often comes bundled with a certain self-regard - an honest admission rather than a boast. Elsewhere, the distinction between physical courage and intellectual courage gets drawn sharply, a nuance worth sitting with alongside our Thought collection.

We had a certain kind of really big prestige among, I suppose not just intellectual folk, but a sort of nice middle class intelligent folk of a very urban nature.

Quotes by Adolph Green

I'm a fake intellectual.

Quotes by Adam Brody

I've never been an intellectual but I have this look.

Quotes by Woody Allen

I'm not known for my intellectual range and tricks have been played on me.

Quotes by William Sanderson

Depth Quotes

One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.

Quotes by William Lyon Phelps

Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to...

Quotes by William Ellery Channing

An intellectual hatred is the worst.

Quotes by William Butler Yeats

There is something mysteriously powerful that can happen when young, inchoate minds come into contact with older and more worldly ones in a spirit of intellectual and creative endeavour - if I believed in progress, I suppose that's what I'd...

Quotes by Will Self

Chess is intellectual gymnastics.

Quotes by Wilhelm Steinitz

Emotion Quotes

My emotional and intellectual response to Hiroshima was that the question of the social responsibility of a journalist was posed with greater urgency than ever.

Quotes by Wilfred Burchett

One of the things that characterizes good intellectual work is a certain self-importance.

Quotes by Whitfield Diffie

Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage - not intellectual courage, but just plain physical courage.

Quotes by Walter Lord

Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.

Quotes by Walter Gropius

Challenging unfairly subsidized products, fighting counterfeit goods and intellectual property theft and holding countries accountable for an unfair currency regime will help American companies remain competitive.

Quotes by Virginia Foxx

Identity Quotes

In basic research, intellectual rigor and sentimental freedom necessarily alternate.

Quotes by Victor Vasarely

It's not the most intellectual job in the world, but I do have to know the letters.

Quotes by Vanna White

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

Quotes by Vaclav Havel

But Italy is not an intellectual country. On the subway in Tokyo everybody reads. In Italy, they don't. Don't evaluate Italy from the fact that it produced Raphael and Michelangelo.

Quotes by Umberto Eco

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

Quotes by Tullian Tchividjian

Thought Quotes

I went to live on a kibbutz, and I'd idealized the world of collective, agrarian work, where everyone was equal, everyone contributed, that all this awful European intellectual stuff just fell away.

Quotes by Tony Judt

There's also a case made for design as simply part of ordinary life rather than a lofty intellectual pursuit, and a nod to protecting original ideas and inventions in global trade. For more on how thinking shapes identity, see our Identity quotes.