Top 1200 Intellectual Life Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

I want the reader to join me on an intellectual and emotional journey into some major aspect of existence.

In 2009, the American Library Association recorded 460 challenges reported to the Office of Intellectual Freedom.

As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted.

You know, albums are a funny thing. They're not like an intellectual decision. It's a collection of your kind of musings.

The game of chess is the most fascinating and intellectual pastime which the wisdom of antiquity has bequeathed to us.

Loud, stupid and overeating will suffice as long as we also have the funny, the fierce and the intellectual

I don't want the whole of my writing or my intellectual energy given over to race because I have diverse interests.

The world of shapes, lines, curves, and solids is as varied as the world of numbers, and it is only our long-satisfied possession of Euclidean geometry that offers us the impression, or the illusion, that it has, that world, already been encompassed in a manageable intellectual structure. The lineaments of that structure are well known: as in the rest of life, something is given and something is gotten; but the logic behind those lineaments is apt to pass unnoticed, and it is the logic that controls the system.

We cannot pursue a classical and Christian education as a fad. We are not purchasing intellectual hula hoops for the kids.

The intellectual advancement of man depends on how often he can exchange an old superstition for a new truth.

It befuddles me why I was offered so many intense, intellectual movies when I don't take myself seriously.

O God, teach me to be satisfied with my own helplessness in the spiritual life. Teach me to be content with Your grace that comes to me in darkness and that works things I cannot see. Teach me to be happy that I can depend on You. To depend on You should be enough for an eternity of joy. To depend on You by itself ought to be infinitely greater than any joy which my own intellectual appetite could desire.

Ambition is the subtlest beast of the intellectual and moral field. It is wonderfully adroit in concealing itself from its owner.

Every intellectual product must be judged from the point of view of the age and the people in which it was produced.

Debating is not an honest intellectual exercise. It's like a trial in which the goal is not to get to the truth but to win.

The intellectual is, quite simply, a human being who has a pencil in his or her hand when reading a book.

Death people who are still alive at this hour, must resurrect and ascend to the intellectual heaven where there is no ignorance.

When I was growing up, to be an emcee meant to write the most clever, intellectual, and wittiest rap. And that's what we did.

Nothing is finer for the purposes of great productions than a very gradual ripening of the intellectual powers.

Intellectual honesty consists in stating the precise conditions under which one will give up one's belief.

Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.

Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal.

[D]emocracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy, such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes and no man's life or property or reputation or liberty will be secure, and every one of these will soon mould itself into a system of subordination of all the moral virtues and intellectual abilities, all the powers of wealth, beauty, wit and science, to the wanton pleasures, the capricious will, and the execrable cruelty of one or a very few.

... the woman who grows up with the idea that she is simply to be an amiable animal, to be caressed and coaxed, is invariably a bitterly disappointed woman. A game of chess will cure such a conceit forever. The woman that knows the most, thinks the most, feels the most, is the most. Intellectual affection is the only lasting love. Love that has a game of chess in it can checkmate any man and solve the problem of life.

To repress rebellion is to maintain the status quo, a condition which binds the mortal creature in a state of intellectual or physical slavery. But it is impossible to chain man merely by slaving his body; the mind also must be held, and to accomplish this, fear is the accepted weapon. The common man must fear life, fear death, fear God, fear the Devil, and fear most the overlords, the keepers of his destiny.

The admission fee was a viper's tongue and a half-concealed stiletto. It was a sort of intellectual slaughterhouse.

I read a lot of G.K. Chesterton. It was a fairly conventional intellectual path to the Catholic church, I would say.

The intellectual is an individual with a specific public role in society that cannot be reduced simply to . . a faceless professional.

The production of a work of art is determined by the material and intellectual climate in which a man lives and dies.

Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.

More people are working in jobs that are interactive technology based or find a basis in intellectual property.

The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective.

It is through the acceptance of a variety of aethetic and intellectual points of view that a culture is given breadth and density.

The object of basic education is the physical, intellectual and moral development of children through the medium of handicraft.

I set it down as a maxim, that it is good for a man to live where he can meet his betters, intellectual and social.

The universe was a vast machine yesterday, it is a hologram today. Who knows what intellectual rattle we'll be shaking tomorrow.

It is only through the opposition of ideas that we can learn to be self-critical, to work towards intellectual humility.

[To Aquinas] the senses are what we have in common with dumb animals. ... Our better part [is] the mind ... and [its] intellectual contemplation.

An abyss seems to have opened between the intellectual cosmopolites of culture and the people, hungry for word and meaning.

Liberal Christians are distinguished by how much moral and intellectual ground they can concede to the adversaries of Christianity.

The information revolution has changed wealth. Intellectual capital is far more important than money.

When your thoughts and opinions become intellectual gods in rebellion against the Word of God, you are in idolatry.

There's a weird intellectual approach to filmmaking, where I pose a question to myself and use the film to try and answer it.

Policy-making, decision-taking, and control: These are the three functions of management that have intellectual content.

I can assure you that there is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life. You learn that which is of inestimable importance that there are a great many people in the world who are just as clever as you are. You learn to put your trust, by and by, in an economy and frugality of the exercise of your powers, both moral and intellectual; and you very soon find out, if you have not found it out before, that patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

When my father died, my mother came back from being Mrs. Birkin to being Judy Campbell. She was a stunning actress. She came out of her shell. She was herself again: this very independent, funny, intellectual lady - and was able to perform again, which was her life before meeting my father squashed it out.

It is not true that a man's intellectual power is, like the strength of a timber beam, to be measured by its weakest point.

Where questions of religion are concerned, people are guilty of every possible sort of dishonesty and intellectual misdemeanor.

It is in the intellectual and emotional response, the conscious and subconscious associations of the artist, that the potential power of painting lies.

Curiosity, especially intellectual inquisitiveness, is what separates the truly alive from those who are merely going through the motions.

Americans have been selling this view around the world: that progress comes from perfect protection of intellectual property.

It is almost an intellectual tradition to pay heed to the insane. In my case those that I most respect are the morons.

A touchstone to determine the actual worth of an "intellectual" - find out how he feels about astrology.

Cultivate an intellectual habit of subordinating one's opinions and wishes to objective evidence and a reverence for things as they really are.

In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

I'm no lyrical stylist, you wouldn't pick me for a perfect sentence, and I certainly wouldn't describe my novels as intellectual.

Whether the person should then be called "an intellectual" seems to reduce the issue to a question of terminology.

Christianity becomes just a set of things you believe in. It's almost an intellectual kind of abstract issue.

Algebra is the intellectual instrument which has been created for rendering clear the quantitative aspects of the world.

I don't know much, but nor do I have the intellectual straitjacket that a lot of people inevitably pick up at university.