An
intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself (Carnets)
View quotes by Albert CamusExperience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere
intellectual play.
View quotes by Imannuel KantDisinterested
intellectual curiosity is the life-blood of real civilisation (English Social History)
View quotes by G M TrevelyanIntellectual passion dries out sensuality.
View quotes by Leonardo Da VinciLiberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an
intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
View quotes by John AdamsMad, adj.: Affected with a high degree of
intellectual independence.
View quotes by Ambrose BierceThe drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to
intellectual discussion: what is left is theater.
View quotes by Robertson DaviesThere is a kind of
intellectual provincialism in the dogma that 'life is just one damned thing after another.' Human affairs do not become intelligible until they are seen as a whole.
View quotes by Arnold ToynbeeWidespread
intellectual and moral docility may be convenient for leaders in the short term, but it is suicidal for nations in the long term. One of the criteria for national leadership should therefore be a talent for understanding, encouraging, and making constructive use of vigorous criticism.
View quotes by Carl SaganFaith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of
intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.
View quotes by George SandThe very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too
intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.
View quotes by Isaac SingerUnfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or
intellectual beauty. Moral beauty has a tendency to decay very rapidly into sententiousness or untimeliness.
View quotes by Susan SontagTo the indefinite, uncertain mind of the American radical the most contradictory ideas and methods are possible. The result is a sad chaos in the radical movement, a sort of
intellectual hash, which has neither taste nor character.
View quotes by Emma GoldmanGossip is the tool of the poet, the shoptalk of the scientist and the consolation of the housewife, wit, tycoon and
intellectual. It begins in the nursery and ends when speech is past.
View quotes by Phyllis McGinleyToo many composers become involved in
intellectual speculation which seems to matter more to them than the sound that comes out of all this speculation.
View quotes by Louise TalmaIt doesn't stand up to huge
intellectual scrutiny.
View quotes by Sir Andrew Lloyd WebberNo great
intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.
View quotes by Theodore RooseveltAn
intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.
View quotes by Aldous HuxleyAn
intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.
View quotes by Dan RatherThe self-styled
intellectual who is impotent with pen and ink hungers to write history with sword and blood.
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