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Last updated on April 22, 2025.
Consistency in opinion is the slow poison of intellectual life, the destroyer of its vividness and energy.
The rare scholars who are nomads-by-choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines.
When public and private sectors combine intellectual and other resources, more can be achieved
An expenditure of words without income of ideas will lead to intellectual bankruptcy.
Edward Said is a very honorable representative of the "intellectual" in the sense of the term that he defines.
The function of comedy is to dispelunconsciousness by turning the searchlight of the keenest moral and intellectual analysisright on to it.
I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty.
John Connally's conversion to the GOP raised the intellectual level of both parties.
We live in what may be the most anti-intellectual period in the history of Western civilization.
My parents were reasoned and deep thinkers. My dad is an intellectual and a literary man.
The best students are ones that are willing to take intellectual risks and challenge conventional thinking.
The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes.
To me, at its best, that's what art should do, perform both the emotional and intellectual function.
I don't want to live in a world where there's no privacy, and therefore no room for intellectual exploration and creativity.
I love this idea of trying to create that intellectual eroticism. That was what I was working toward all along.
Ads represent the main channel of intellectual and artistic effort in the modern world.
I'm strictly for Stevenson. I don't dig the intellectual bit, but I'm telling you, man, he knows the most.
When the intellectual part of guitar playing overrides the spiritual, you don't get to extreme heights.
I try to keep a balance between conceptional or intellectual comprehension and emotional understanding.
I don't want to pretend like I'm some intellectual person who understands Flannery O'Connor.
The greatest intellectual capacities are only found in connection with a vehement and passionate will.
Sell your intellectual property based on a track record of success and innovation.
Plato's concern is not just an intellectual issue, but it is knitted with emotional life as well.
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.
Most of the intellectual elite of the USA completely disavow the idea of absolute truth.
One must treat theory-in-use as both a psychological certainty and an intellectual hypothesis.
I'm calling the Cube, it's a piece of art. At the same time, it's an intellectual task as well.
It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble.
The purpose of art is to collide the intellectual and visceral together at the highest speed possible.
That's what social media is, that's what Twitter is, that's what Facebook posts are. It's just really anti-intellectual.
Most intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the same.
Just for being a religion at all you're as complicit as the rest in the retardation of the human intellectual progress.
Reduce intellectual and emotional noise
until you arrive at the silence of yourself
and listen to it.
I have spent a good part of my life showing what an intellectual bubble the Left lives in.
I have always disliked the fierce competitive spirit embodied in that highly intellectual game.
The art of one period cannot be approached through the attitudes (emotional or intellectual) of another.
In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.
You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.
I tend not to be so attracted to films that force me into an intellectual place over an emotional one.
George Bush's political, intellectual and other shortcomings cannot be restricted to one sentence.
I think the freedom to express one's views is more important than intellectual property.
There is a vast difference between intellectual belief and the total conversion that saves the soul.
I may turn out an intellectual, but I'll never write anything but mediocre poetry.
When public and private sectors combine intellectual and other resources, more can be achieved.
I'm an intellectual, but I've always had jobs that required physical labor above all else.
Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches.
I thought I was too intellectual to read something like 'Sweet Savage Love.'
Confucianism is all about tempering your instincts with intellectual discipline, with book learning.
'The Big Lebowski' gave me my first false sense of intellectual superiority.
To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. This is the sport, the luxury, special to the intellectual man.
Hardik Patel and Kanhaiya Kumar are absolutely intellectual terrorists - they have been created.
Intellectual curiosity drove Einstein to some of the world's most important discoveries.
Every man who expresses an honest thought is a soldier in the army of intellectual liberty.
One thing I don't want around me is a military intellectual. I don't have to worry about you on that score.
I believe it was Gayelord Hauser, the nutritionist, who said, 'You are what you eat,' but if you happen to be an intellectual, you are what you quote.
The intellectual power, through words and things, Went sounding on a dim and perilous way!
The pointless ferocities of intellectual life shock businessmen, who kill only to eat.
I'm fond of observing how obsession is the most durable form of intellectual capital.
The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
I say that I represent this movement because my intellectual allegiances are clearly European, not African.
