Quotes About Intellectual

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

A longer time perspective is needed because we face a daunting task both in an intellectual and practical sense.

I was a total nerd growing up. I'd rather sit home and read a novel on New Year's Eve and say, 'Wow, I read the whole thing in one night!' That was my idea of a big time.

I'm a quiet person's nightmare - the only time I shut up is when I'm reading, because I'm a book geek.

The bulk of all patents are crap. Spending time reading them is stupid. It's up to the patent owner to do so, and to enforce them.

The founding of libraries was like constructing more public granaries, amassing reserves against a spiritual winter which by certain signs, in spite of myself, I see ahead…

Think how much less stupefying the last fifty years might have been if people had actually read Marx.

There is a tendency among some religious people even to invite ridicule and bring down on themselves and intellectual content which seems to me in some cases justified. Nevertheless, I would advise you against defensiveness on principle. It precludes the best eventualities along with the worst. At the most basic level, it expresses a lack of faith.

To a certain degree my idea was motivated by indignation. Performance material and images were constantly being stolen and put into the context of fashion, advertising, MTV, Hollywood films, theater, etc.: it was unprotected territory. I strongly felt that when anybody takes an idea of intellectual or artistic value from someone else, they should do so only with permission. To do otherwise is to commit piracy.

Light literature, along with light cinema and light art, give the reader and the viewer the comfortable impression that they are cultured, revolutionary, modern and in the vanguard without having to make the slightest intellectual effort. Culture that purports to be avant-garde and iconoclastic instead offers conformity in its worst forms: smugness and self-satisfaction.

Como disciplina intelectual, dijo, «es aburrido leer a los aliados, a quienes coinciden con nuestros puntos de vista. Más interesante es leer al enemigo, al que pone a prueba la solidez de nuestras defensas.

The genius of the Spanish writer has always flourished through excessive rhetoric, which expresses a fundamental element in our nature and in our culture. If you think of our great writers, all of them are great rhetoricians. Think of Pablo Neruda, for instance, a great poet. It is the exuberance, the excess. Creation is something that appears like a natural phenomena, a kind of transpiration of nature more than an intellectual exercise.

La publicidad y las relaciones públicas existían desde antes de que él naciera, por supuesto, pero Bernays había elevado ese quehacer, que todas las compañías usaban pero consideraban menor, a una disciplina intelectual de alto nivel, como parte de la sociología, la economía y la política.

ese juego intelectual, desdeñoso y superior, que consiste en reivindicar estéticamente, mediante una noble e inteligente interpretación, lo innoble y lo estúpido, como hicieron, por ejemplo, Hermann Broch con el kitsch

MVLL: Pero ¿no hay una nostalgia en usted de cosas no hechas por haber dedicado tanto tiempo a la vida puramente intelectual? JLB: Creo que no. Creo que a la larga uno vive esencialmente todas las cosas y lo importante no son las experiencias, sino lo que uno hace con ellas.

En la civilización del espectáculo, el intelectual sólo interesa si sigue el juego de moda y se vuelve un bufón.

Como disciplina intelectual, dijo, «es aburrido leer a los aliados, a quienes coinciden con nuestros puntos de vista. Más interesante es leer al enemigo, al que pone a prueba la solidez de nuestras defensas. Lo que, en verdad, me ha interesado siempre, es averiguar qué tienen de flaco, de débil o de erróneo las ideas en las que creo. ¿Para qué? Para poder enmendarlas o abandonarlas».

The symbiotic relationship between reading and writing is a cornerstone of our individual intellectual journey and our educational system. We write as an act of self-expression. We read because language renders unto us the vitality of real and imagined experience.

Embrace relational uncertainty. It's called romance. Embrace spiritual uncertainty. It's called mystery. Embrace occupational uncertainty. It's called destiny. Embrace emotional uncertainty. It's called joy. Embrace intellectual uncertainty. It's called revelation.

When I was a child, luxury was fur coats, evening dresses, and villas by the sea. Later on, I thought it meant leading the life of an intellectual. Now I feel that it is also being able to live out a passion for a man or a woman.

Quand j'étais enfant, le luxe c'était pour moi les manteaux de fourrure et les villas au bord de la mer. Plus tard, j'ai cru que c'était de mener une vie d'intellectuel. Il me semble maintenant que c'est aussi de pouvoir vivre une passion pour un homme ou une femme

A mama's boy, loner, intellectual, voracious reader and gourmand, Dimitri was a man of esoteric skills and appetites: a gambler, philosopher, gardener, fly-fisherman, fluent in Russian and German as well as having an amazing command of English. He loved antiquated phrases, dry sarcasm, military jargon, regional dialect, and the New York Times crossword puzzle — to which he was hopelessly addicted.

I see you have books under your arm, brother. It is indeed a rare pleasure these days to come across somebody that still reads, brother.

Dad also treasured the Church's beauty. Some years ago, then-Cardinal Ratzinger (later Pope Benedict XVI) observed that one of the most convincing demonstrations of the Catholic Church's truth is "the beauty that the faith has generated." That statement by a man of such intellectual standing might surprise us because we tend to associate beauty with feelings and not with truth.