Quotes About Intellectual

Like every other self-respecting academic, I'm distrustful of self-help books.

Serious-minded people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.

You know, I'm an egg-heady scientist with a large beard and like Birkenstocks.

Indian companies have begun to pay lip service to the concept of intellectual capital but a miniscule of them, that too non-family run businesses, understand what that means.

It wasn't easy to learn about Gustave LeBon. For being the father of such an enduring theory, almost nothing has been written about him. Only one man has ever tried to piece his life story together—Bob Nye, a professor of European intellectual history at Oregon State University.

Reading enables me to maintain a sense of something substantive– my ethical integrity, my intellectual integrity.

The kernel, the soul — let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all human utterances — is plagiarism.

But when, at the end of my sophomore year, I became a philosophy major and started doing my first seriously pretentious thinking, I became a vegetarian again. The kind of willful forgetting that I was sure meat eating required felt too paradoxical to the intellectual life I was trying to shape. I thought life could, should, and must conform to the mold of reason. You can imagine how annoying this made me.

Reading . . . is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.

Leer, por lo pronto, es una actividad posterior a la de escribir: más resignada, más civil, más intelectual

There is something of the preacher essential in every Russian intellectual. It is in our blood; it has been instilled by the whole of Russian literature in the last generations

Perlu ramai "intelektual", bukan "intelekjual".

The French in particular confuse unadorned direct language with a lack of culture or intellectual elegance.

Europe is a place that conserves. It maintains, it curates its civilization, protects it against the ravages and rust of other cultures, and the rot of time and intellectual theft. We are a continent where fear of losing what we have is greater than the ambition to make it anew.

an intellectual betrayed his mission if he was not the most constant defender of civilization and freedom of thought

The purpose of books is not to be read. I buy books not to read them. I own a lot of books. I write books, I collect books, I think about books, I copy books, I pay for books – I'm in the book business. But I don't read books.

The personality trait most associated with an interest in the arts is called openness, the tendency to seek out novelty in intellectual, aesthetic, and emotional pursuits.

Torah and the world is thus the relation between idea and actualization, between vision and fulfillment. So that the intellectual study of Torah and the emotional involvement in its contents are a form of identification with the divine will, with what may be called God's dream of the existence of the world and the existence of man.

Il ricordo della miseria intellettuale della massa operaia, la volgarità dei rapporti che vi regnano, fa apparire una insopportabile molestia l'idea di un qualsiasi contatto con quello stadio superato di cultura e di vita

Toda propaganda debe ser popular, adoptando su nivel intelectual a la capacidad respectiva del menos inteligente de los individuos a quienes se desee que vaya dirigida. De esta suerte, es menester que la elevación mental sea tanto menor cuanto más grande sea la masa que deba conquistar.

I was passionate about reading from an early age, and I would always be carrying a different book each week.

I think what - I think what the American people is looking for is they are looking for moral and intellectual courage and clarity, and not a sense of passivity or confusion.

We have more patents on pigmented inks than anybody else.

It's not healthy for patents to be used to stop other people from doing business.