logo

Quotes About Intellectuality

We want today that bright sun of intellectuality joined with the heart of Buddha, the wonderful infinite heart of love and mercy. This union will give us the highest philosophy.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Intellectuality" silences OTHERS! "Intelligence" keeps YOU silent!
~ Vishwanath S J
Your brain is an accelerating gravity free zone. While Intelligence leverages it, Intellectuality erodes it!
~ Vishwanath S J
But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
~ Mel Brooks
In the present day, we follow Peri on to the dinner party, where she arrives stained and disheveled but determined to dismiss everyone's concern. That's easy because the other guests are extraordinarily wealthy and wholly self-absorbed... I kept wanting more depth from Dr. Azur's presentations. Finally, I realized that's the point: He's a classic master teacher in the Dead Poets Society mode: iconoclastic but gimmicky, glazed with intellectuality but essentially narcissistic.
~ Ron Charles
One British writer describes these big bankers and industrialists, who prided themselves on their "practicality" in backing Hitler, as "too innocent for politics." William Shirer says that they were "politically childish." In fact, their "innocence" was anti-intellectuality, and their "political childishness" was (in effect) philosophical pragmatism.
~ Leonard Peikoff
For these people religion is the only form of intellectuality.
~ Edmund White
To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and to acquire the habit of approaching and grasping an individual case from all sides. This is the first preparatory schooling of intellectuality. One must not respond immediately to a stimulus; one must acquire a command of the obstructing and isolating instincts.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
A man recovers best from his exceptional nature - his intellectuality - by giving his animal instincts a chance.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
that we need to be in a real war again, in order to learn Discipline! We don't want all this highbrow intellectuality, all this book-learning. That's good enough in its way, but isn't it, after all, just a nice toy for grownups?
~ Sinclair Lewis
We don't want all this highbrow intellectuality, all this book-learning. That's good enough in its way, but isn't it, after all, just a nice toy for grownups?
~ Sinclair Lewis
We don't want all this highbrow intellectuality, all this book-learning. That's good enough in its way, but isn't it, after all, just a nice toy for grownups? No, what we all of us must have
~ Sinclair Lewis
Denied a Lenin and deprived of Napoleon, France retreated into the last and, we must hope, indestructible redoubt, the world of Astérix . The postwar vogue for Parisian thinkers barely concealed their collective retreat into Hexagonal introversion and into the ultimate fortress of French intellectuality, Cartesian theory and puns.
~ Eric J. Hobsbawm
And indeed, the mind of contemporary man, of whatever level of intellectuality, is only able to take cognizance of the world by means of data which, whenever accidentally or intentionally activated, arouse in him all sorts of fantastic impulses.
~ G.I. Gurdjieff
What is now wanted is a combination of the greatest heart with the highest intellectuality, of infinite love with infinite knowledge.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Books are almost as individual as friends. There is no earthly use in laying down general laws about them. Some meet the needs of one person, and some of another; and each person should beware of the booklover's besetting sin, of what Mr. Edgar Allan Poe calls 'the mad pride of intellectuality,' taking the shape of arrogant pity for the man who does not like the same kind of books.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
But for women, the conflict between sex role and artistic commitment goes much deeper: The successful woman is-almost by definition-the one who sacrifices her self, her creativity and intellectuality, who puts them into personal (read male) and not professional (read competition) commitments.
~ Dale Spender
Intellectual superiority was, of course, esteemed; but the word Chi, which was employed to denote intellectuality, meant wisdom in the first instance and placed knowledge only in a very subordinate place. The tripod that supported the framework of Bushido was said to be Chi, Jin, Yu, respectively Wisdom, Benevolence, and Courage. A samurai was essentially a man of action
~ Inaz? Nitobe
But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
~ Mel Brooks