Intellectual Quotes
There is iconoclasm in the excessively intellectual, and they delight in destroying their dearest moral or sentimental idols, the better to prove their strength.
Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
The most dangerous condition for a man or a nation is when his intellectual side is more developed than his spiritual. Is that not exactly the condition of the world today?
Unfortunately, nature seems unaware of our intellectual need for convenience and unity, and very often takes delight in complication and diversity.
I'm just being myself. I'm not a very complex guy; I'm not a very studious, crazy intellectual guy. I'm just a guy.
But Italy is not an intellectual country. On the subway in Tokyo everybody reads. In Italy, they don't. Don't evaluate Italy from the fact that it produced Raphael and Michelangelo.
I think the freedom to express one's views is more important than intellectual property.
The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not born into the class he must soon insert himself into it, in order to exist. He is the fine nervous flower of the bourgeoisie.
Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.
He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.
if we were forced to choose just one, there would be no way to deny that Judaism is the most important intellectual development in human history.
There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.
The best acting is instinctive. It's not intellectual, it's not mechanical, it's instinctive.
For people who know McQueen, there is always an underlying message. It's usually only the intellectual ones who understand what's going on in what I do.
The climate-change deniers are rapidly ending up with as much intellectual credibility as creationists and Flat Earthers. They are nudging close to having the moral credibility of Holocaust deniers.
It will be sufficient to point to the enormous burdens which armaments place on the economic, social, and intellectual resources of a nation, as well as on its budget and taxes.
Someone like Jean-Luc Godard is for me intellectual counterfeit money when compared to a good kung fu film.
No vital Christianity is possible unless at least three aspects of it are developed. These are the inner life of devotion, the outer life of service, and the intellectual life of rationality.
We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.
Some lose all mind and become soul,insane. some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual. some lose both and become accepted
Anxiety is the essential condition of intellectual and artistic creation and everything that is finest in human history.
As for the accusation of intellectual pride, surely the boot is on the other foot. Atheists don't claim to know anything with certainty -- it's the believers who know it all.
Great art is always a balancing act. But all art has both - an emotional content and an intellectual content.
The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.
People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect.
I don't want to live in a world where there's no privacy, and therefore no room for intellectual exploration and creativity.
The more a human being in his worldview approaches the goal, the hegemony of love in a moral universe, the more has he become slipshod in the light of intellectual honesty.
I think, therefore I am' is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.
In any given society the authority of man over man runs in inverse proportion to the intellectual development of that society.
Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love.
Everything we know has its origins in questions. Questions, we might say, are the principal intellectual instruments available to human beings.
Moral cowardice and intellectual corruption are the natural concomitants of unchallenged privilege.
The intellectual and social climate needed to allow entrepreneurship to thrive will not exist in advanced capitalism.
Cease from practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words, and following after speech.
The object of basic education is the physical, intellectual and moral development of children through the medium of handicraft.
True Sufism is resistance: spiritual, intellectual, social, cultural, political and economic resistance. It cannot be, for sure, supporting dictators.
