Top 599 Intellectually Quotes & Sayings

One can believe intellectually in the efficacy of prayer and never do any praying.

Pragmatism is an intellectually safe but ultimately sterile philosophy.

Generalities are intellectually necessary evils.

We still need to feed the public, both physically and intellectually.

You can't understand a character intellectually, you have to become one with its emotional core.

Poetry is, above all, an approach to the truth of feeling. A fine poem will seize your imagination intellectually - that is, when you reach it, you will reach it intellectually too - but the way is through emotion, through what we call feeling.

It's wonderful when music is intellectually stimulating. But ultimately it has to be a visceral experience.

Intellectually, I believe there's no free will.

I try to figure out - intellectually, philosophically, psychologically - what the experience of beauty is.

I contend that the ethos of perpetual non-judgment is intellectually dishonest if not outright cowardly.

I'd say, probably, intellectually I've drawn as much from Judaism as any other faith.

The gospel is never heard in isolation. It is always heard against the background of the cultural milieu in which one lives. A person raised in a cultural milieu in which Christianity is still seen as an intellectually viable option will display an openness to the gospel which a person who is secularized will not [as such] part of the broader task of Christian scholarship is to help create and sustain a cultural milieu in which the gospel can be heard as an intellectually viable option for thinking men and women.

Intellectually, now, I believe that it is a complete vanity to say positively there is no God.

You can be a smarty-pants director, but that won't matter if the movie doesn't work emotionally as well as intellectually.

[T]o argue that something is so because it is in the Bible is more than intellectually bankrupt.

No one can be as intellectually slothful as a really smart person

There is no worse torture than knowing intellectually about love and the way.

Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

I don't want to write books that are intellectually staggering if nobody's going to read them.

It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.

I'm drawn to roles because they excite me intellectually and emotionally.

The United States survives so long as at least one of its major parties is politically and intellectually healthy.

The Liberals are intellectually exhausted.

The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality. The tree that you are aware of intellectually, because of that small time lag, is always in the past and therefore is always unreal. Any intellectually conceived object is always in the past and therefore unreal. Reality is always the moment of vision before the intellectualization takes place. There is no other reality.

Games have to be relevant intellectually.

People often say to me, 'I understand what you are talking about intellectually, but I don't really feel it, I don't realize it,' and I am apt to reply, 'I wonder whether you do understand it intellectually, because if you did you would also feel it.'

I like it to be visually powerful, intellectually elegant, and above all, timeless.

In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy.

I get overwhelmed when I approach things intellectually.

It is conceivable that religion may be morally useful without being intellectually sustainable.

When I was studying architecture in the 1970s, it was intellectually bankrupt.

I want to be a part of something that's good and intellectually challenging.

Intellectually, the Republican idea deserves the tolerance and respect one gives to the dead.

We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.

Empathy is intuitive, but it is also something you can work on intellectually.

How am I immature? Intellectually, emotionally, and sexually. Yeah, but in what other ways?

Root for the girls who wear dresses and are intellectually very strong.

The message of Islam asks you to be intellectually, spiritually, socially, and politically independent

Being at the top of your game intellectually, philosophically, politically, is not a forever thing.

I realized we're all walking around asleep, intellectually comatose, dead to the facts.

I love reading fiction about people who are connecting intellectually. I find that exhilarating.

Doing what has never been done before is intellectually seductive, whether or not we deem it practical.

I know intellectually that if I shake somebody's hand that I'm not going to get sick and die.

So this show [Cosmos] does not only operate on you intellectually, because telling you stories of how science works and why it works and what was discovered and why it matters, but combines that with stunning visualizations of the cosmos. This has the chance of affecting you intellectually and emotionally, and as well as even spiritually, because the wonder and awe of the universe are especially potent when presented in this way."

In the thirties a whole school of criticism bogged down intellectually in those agitprop, social-realistic days. A play had to be progressive. A number of plays by playwrights who were thought very highly of then - they were very bad playwrights - were highly praised because their themes were intellectually and politically proper. This intellectual morass is very dangerous, it seems to me. A form of censorship.

Intellectually I'm probably a Republican.

Being intellectually hospitable is a virtue that I bring into the interview space.

Algebra and money are essentially levelers; the first intellectually, the second effectively.

Judaism is an intellectually based religion, and the single most important theme is that of study.

We resemble computers intellectually and animals emotionally.

We know intellectually that money can't buy happiness yet we spend and go into debt as if it does.

Psychopaths know intellectually what is immoral they just don't have a feeling of immorality about it.

My father made me who I am; he was incredibly intellectually generous.

I only surround myself with people who are intellectually stimulating.

In backbends, one touches the body physically, mentally, intellectually, consciously and spiritually everywhere.

I called Donald Trump a racist. Nobody that makes that charge is being intellectually honest, or else they're being intellectually lazy.

A film engages you emotionally and intellectually.

You have to be intellectually honest with yourself and others. In my judgment, all great investors are seekers of truth.

Intellectually, I loved my job, but I didn't get any meaning from it.

One should not be too severe on English novels; they are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed.