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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.

The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater.

Quotes by Robertson Davies

Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.

Quotes by Robert M. Pirsig

The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.

Quotes by Robert M. Hutchins

Once we no longer have the intellectual upper hand, then we quite literally, by definition, cannot outwit our successors. So unless we are absolutely sure that the machines we are building right now are not going to eventually become our...

Quotes by Robert J. Sawyer

In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits.

Quotes by Robert Hall

What we now call 'finance' is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.

Quotes by Robert Graves

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

Quotes by Robert Bork

Pol Pot - he rounded up anybody he thought was intellectual and had them executed. And how he told someone was intellectual or not was whether they wore glasses. If they're that clever, take them off when they see him...

Quotes by Ricky Gervais

An intellectual is someone who avoids the mundane by lowering his handicap.

Quotes by Richard Reeves

I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing.

Quotes by Richard Rorty

It is ironic that the United States should have been founded by intellectuals, for throughout most of our political history, the intellectual has been for the most part either an outsider, a servant or a scapegoat.

Quotes by Richard Hofstadter

The concept of cultural appropriation is nothing less than an intellectual fence: Keep out.

Quotes by Richard Cohen

I'm not an intellectual in any sense, I have constraints of erudition. I'm not able to deal with things outside my ken, and that makes me irritable. I'm irritable about the fact that I never went to university.

Quotes by Richard Attenborough

What is now called 'green architecture' is an opportunistic caricature of a much deeper consideration of the issues related to sustainability that architecture has been engaged with for many years. It was one of the first professions that was deeply...

Quotes by Rem Koolhaas

I won a Marshall scholarship to read philosophy at Oxford, and what I most wanted to do was strengthen public intellectual culture - I'd write books and essays to help us figure out who we wanted to be.

Quotes by Reid Hoffman

I went to work for Catholics United for the Faith, and I basically found myself in the midst of the traditionalist branch of the Catholic revival. There is an intellectual rigor that is very much valued there and that I...

Quotes by Regina Doman

What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.

Quotes by Raymond Aron

I need three million dollars to make a low-budget, intellectual, artistic, exciting, erotic movie with a great soundtrack.

Quotes by Ray Manzarek

An expenditure of words without income of ideas will lead to intellectual bankruptcy.

Quotes by Ravi Zacharias

Nokia's industry-leading intellectual property has the potential to create significant value for our licensees and our shareholders.

Quotes by Rajeev Suri

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.