Quotes About Intellectual

I've always been interested in intellectual history and in psychology, and anxiety is obviously something that's been a big part of my life.

I'm a private intellectual, not a public one.

A smart, intellectual magazine is a difficult thing to run because of the need to manage conflicting personalities and opinionated writers who clash constantly, whose clashes make the publication better. It is exhausting and draining, and honestly, the only thing that's harder is probably running a university.

My biggest concern about the market is the force that acts to drive down price, because I think that's destructive to authors as well as publishers. Our biggest battle is to underline the value of intellectual property.

Don't sell your publishing.

Don't sign your publishing away.

The only way to fix Puerto Rico is with brain game, to bring the intellectual and human capital there - in a way that it's done with the right intention.

It's not highly intellectual material. I'm dedicating it to the pulp fiction of the past.

I got on a Dostoyevsky kick right after college. I started with 'Crime and Punishment,' went on to 'The Possessed' and then 'The Brothers Karamazov' and 'The Idiot.'

I thought of computers as very low class. I thought of myself as a pure mathematician and was interested in partial differential equations and topology and things like that.

The thing is, my dad's always been more of a bookworm; he was interested in more intellectual pursuits, but nobody can escape the passion that football stirs.

I'm first and foremost a scientist.

I spend a frightening amount of money on books.

There's nothing so passionate as a vested interest disguised as an intellectual conviction.

Descartes had somehow managed to use skepticism in service of orthodoxy; he preserved crucial shards of church doctrine—the immortal soul, for starters—while buying intellectual space for the physical sciences to continue the march toward knowledge.

An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.

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.

I think one of the important evolutions is that we no longer feel compulsively the need to argue, or to justify things on a kind of rational level. We are much more willing to admit that certain things are completely instinctive and others are really intellectual.

What we want in students is creativity and a willingness to fail. I always say to students, 'If you've never at some point stayed up all night talking to your new boyfriend about the meaning of life instead of preparing for the test, then you're not really an intellectual.'

In no instance is there to be a musical or opera of Inherit the Wind because it doesn't sing. It's an intellectual play.

The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps.

Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic concept.

There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side.

Content zips around the Internet thanks to code - programming code. And code is subject to intellectual property laws.