Intellectual Quotes

The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.

I try to keep a balance between conceptional or intellectual comprehension and emotional understanding.

Tennis doesn't encourage any kind of intellectual development.

Our educational system is appallingly poor right now. Yet, somehow we're turning out some of the most intellectual and powerful sophisticated minds in the world. I think that's because we still have the opportunity here.

Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.

The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.

The apostles were moved, not so much by an intellectual apprehension, as by a spiritual illumination. They met men, and the need of those men whom they met cried aloud to them.

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 judge for themselves.

To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.

To play a role where you get to reveal intellectual change is wonderful.

What a revolting contrast exists in England between the slavery of women and the intellectual superiority of women writers.

Cynicism is intellectual treason.

Can a woman become a genius of the first class? Nobody can know unless women in general shall have equal opportunity with men in education, in vocational choice, and in social welcome of their best intellectual work for a number of generations.

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

When you're watching Psycho, there' s that moment when you have a visceral reaction to watching someone being stabbed. And then you have the intellectual revelation that you're not, and that's where the celebration comes in.

My dear Miss Glory, Robots are not people. They are mechanically more perfect than we are, they have an astounding intellectual capacity, but they have no soul.

High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered; they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make.

Israel has created a new image of the Jew in the world - the image of a working and an intellectual people, of a people that can fight with heroism.

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.

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