Intellectual Quotes

Transparency is not the same as looking straight through a building: it's not just a physical idea, it's also an intellectual one.

The true traveller is the one urged to move about for physical, aesthetic, intellectual as well as spiritual reasons.

I desire to assist in attracting to this profession young men of character and ability, also to help those already engaged in the profession to acquire the highest moral and intellectual training.

When I start writing songs and it turns into an overly belabored intellectual process, I just throw it out.

Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

The intellectual force of the West is still dominant, but other cultures are getting stronger. I expect that we will develop a new way of thinking in architecture and urban planning, and that less will be based on our models.

Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can be more fully performed by this art, which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure.

Some men tend to cling to old intellectual excitements, just as some belles, when they are old ladies, still cling to the fashions and coiffures of their exciting youth.

Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.

We started this mostly from an intellectual place.

What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.

I hope that I am generous and tolerant, but certainly on the intellectual side I think that there are discoverable truths, and some things that are closer approximations to the truth than others.

There are no ideas in the Republican Party right now in the Congress. They're the party of no. They desperately need some intellectual leadership. And whatever you think of Newt Gingrich, he can supply intellectual leadership. So I hope he does run.

Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap.

Strategic thinkers were naturally rattled to find this outsider fooling around with their work. They had been thinking strategically when Reagan was just another movie actor playing opposite a chimpanzee, for heaven's sake. They think Reagan is too naive, too innocent, to grasp the intellectual complexities of cold war strategy.

A social democratic party without deep roots in the working class movement would quickly fade into an unrepresentative intellectual sect.

I've always been inspired by artists who have shown musical and intellectual curiosity and the courage to take risks.

Our family life was certainly not intellectual.

He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.

The intellectual, the man of thought, doubt and analysis, should give the best of himself.

The intellectual who wants to do her work properly must today go back to the starting point: the woman whom she knows, and first of all to herself. It is at that level, and at no other, that she ought to begin to think about the world situation.

This intellectual Pearl Harbor, a real gutsy sock to the stomach.

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

After my mom died, there was so much written about her fashion and her style and all that, and I felt that one of the most important parts of her was missing, her real intellectual curiosity.

I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty.

Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance.

I try to be feminine, yet intellectual and smart at the same time. You don't see enough of that.

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.

You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.