Quotes About Intellectual

Poetry exists partly to undermine the certainties of an accepted intellectual system, by opening a fissure of awareness at which the reality of the unconquered world may enter.

Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.

A Grecian history, perfectly written should be a complete record of the rise and progress of poetry, philosophy, and the arts.

Next o'er his books his eyes began to roll, In pleasing memory of all he stole.

To an intellectual who is adrift in politics, a theory is an aim; to a true politician his theory is a boundary

Intellectual freedom is the only guarantee of a scientific - democratic approach to politics, economic development, and culture.

Why should we subsidize intellectual curiosity?

I suppose I've always carried what is regarded as a bit of unnecessary baggage in Britain. I've always carried the charge that I am an intellectual in politics.

Good politicians need not be intellectuals, but they should have intellectual lives.

All intellectual tendencies are corrupted when they consort with power.

Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by mself.

By activating an expansive, tolerant, and creative mindset, positive feelings maximize the social, intellectual, and physical benefits that will accrue.

Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.

Reading is the noblest of all the hobbies, that is why people mention it so frequently in their resume even if they don't read much.

All the civilizations we know have been created and directed by small intellectual aristocracies, never by people in the mass. The power of crowds is only to destroy.

The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.

An intellectual hatred is the worst,So let her think opinions are accursed.Have I not seen the loveliest woman bornOut of the mouth of Plenty's horn,Because of her opinionated mindBarter that horn and every goodBy quiet natures understoodFor an old bellows full of angry wind?

An intellectual hate is the worst.

An intellectual hatred is the worst.

To sit a fine Christian gentleman down in close proximity to an unsavoury crowd of prostitutes was bad enough. Even worse was to allow him to be humiliated intellectually by the afore-mentioned rabble. (When you must have know perfectly well that it is not given to mere policemen, as it is to street-walkers, to think coherently on their feet).

The largest cultural menace in America is the conformity of the intellectual cliques which, in education as well as the arts, are out to impose upon the nation their modish fads and fallacies, and have nearly succeeded in doing so. In this cultural issue, we are, without reservations, on the side of excellence (rather than "newness") and of honest intellectual combat (rather than conformity).

The largest cultural menace in America is the conformity of the intellectual cliques which, in education as well as the arts, are out to impose upon the nation their modish fads and fallacies, and have nearly succeeded in doing so. In this cultural issue, we are, without reservations, on the side of excellence (rather than "newness") and of honest intellectual combat (rather than conformity).

To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education.

Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now it's really bad because everything we've done is de-humanizing education. It's destroying the possibility of the teacher and the student having a warm, friendly, intellectual relationship.