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Quotes About Intellectual

In a seriously intended intellectual emancipation a person's mute passions and cravings also hope to find their advantage.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Aping urbanity, Oozing with vanity, Plump as a manatee, Faking humanity, Intellectual inanity, Journalistic calamity, Fox Noise insanity, You're a profanity, Hannity.
~ John Cleese
Intellectual beauty is sufficient unto itself, and only for it rather than for the future good of humanity does the scholar condemn himself to arduous and painful labors.
~ Santiago Ramon y Cajal
Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.
~ Christopher Morley
There are many non-intellectual countries; Australia is one of the few anti-intellectual ones.
~ George Mikes
High Times magazine is a notch intellectually below Highlights for Children. I mean, they're both great to read when you're baked, but come on, ya know.
~ David Cross
I don't care that they stole my idea . . I care that they don't have any of their own
~ Nikola Tesla
They muddy the water, to make it seem deep.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
If you steal from one author it's plagiarism; if you steal from many it's research.
~ Wilson Mizner
No academic ever expects to be taken seriously by more than three other people, because really, we write for three people in our field.
~ Howard Gardner
When the intellect and affections are in harmony; when intellectual consciousness is calm and deep; inspiration will not be confounded with fancy.
~ Margaret Fuller
Just to say 'I believe' or 'I do not doubt' does not mean that you understand and see. To force oneself to see and accept a thing without understanding is political and not spiritual or intellectual.
~ Gautama Buddha
We continually forget that the sphere of morals is the sphere of action, that speculation in regard to morality is but observation and must remain in the sphere of intellectual comment, that a situation does not really become moral until we are confronted with the question of what shall be done in a concrete case, and are obliged to act upon our theory.
~ Jane Addams
To seek "causes" of poverty in this way is to enter an intellectual dead end because poverty has no causes. Only prosperity has causes.
~ Jane Jacobs
Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
~ Janis Joplin
Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely. All you really have that really matters are feelings. That's what music is to me." – Janis Joplin
~ Janis Joplin
We're losing track of the vastness of the potential for computer science. We really have to revive the beautiful intellectual joy of it, as opposed to the business potential.
~ Jaron Lanier
the key intellectual pursuits that are the primary fit for remote working—writing, programming, designing, advising, and customer support, to mention just a few—have little to do with the cutthroat margin wars of, say, manufacturing.
~ Jason Fried
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
You see, Monsieur, it's worth everything, isn't it, to keep one's intellectual liberty, not to enslave one's powers of appreciation, one's critical independence?
~ Edith Wharton
Many French people were difficult conversationalists. Asking them not only where they were originally from but what they did in life was considered rude—I suppose because many of them did nothing (many Parisians are rentiers, people who live off the rents of their properties) or because they weren't proud of their jobs, which simultaneously supported and interfered with their intellectual and artistic passions.
~ Edmund White
P?rea s?-l considere tot mai mult pe Sergio un soi de pierde-var? din categoria trist? È™i inert?, un intelectual adic?, iar de data asta Sergio nu putea spune c? nu are dreptate, era într-adev?r un intelectual din cea mai rea spe??, credea, un om a c?rui inteligen?? nu avea nimic creativ, nici util, ci servea doar ca s?-l îmboln?veasc? È™i s?-l paralizeze ca o otrav? rafinat?.
~ Alberto Moravia
The evolution of a land ethic is an intellectual as well as emotional process.
~ Aldo Leopold