Intellectual Quotes

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows. (Dwight D. Eisenhower)
Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art. View quote
Susan Sontag
No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward. View quote
Booker T. Washington
An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex. View quote
Aldous Huxley
Although I was not aware of it at the time, the experience of growing up during the Great Depression was to have a profound impact on my intellectual and professional career. View quote
Lawrence Klein
The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward. View quote
John Maynard Keynes
My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her. View quote
George Washington
Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana. View quote
Bill Gates
It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate. View quote
Nathaniel Hawthorne
An intellectual is a man who says a simple thing in a difficult way; an artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way. View quote
Charles Bukowski
The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, "I was wrong". (Sydney J. Harris)
The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself. View quote
Noam Chomsky
Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs. View quote
Christopher Morley
Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves. View quote
William Ellery Channing
Cynicism is intellectual treason. View quote
Norman Cousins
To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy. View quote
Henri Cartier-Bresson
It is almost an intellectual tradition to pay heed to the insane. In my case those that I most respect are the morons. View quote
Henri Michaux
To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own. View quote
Henry James
Linux is not in the public domain. Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches. That's the way that the license works. View quote
Steve Ballmer
I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much. View quote
Newt Gingrich
It is imperfection - not perfection - that is the end result of the program written into that formidably complex engine that is the human brain, and of the influences exerted upon us by the environment and whoever takes care of us during the long years of our physical, psychological and intellectual development. (Rita Levi-Montalcini)
The history of medicine proves that in so far as man seeks to know himself and face his whole nature, he has become free from bewildered fear, despondent shame, or arrant hypocrisy. As long as sex is dealt with in the current confusion of ignorance and sophistication, denial and indulgence, suppression and stimulation, punishment and exploitation, secrecy and display, it will be associated with a duplicity and indecency that lead neither to intellectual honesty nor human dignity. View quote
Alfred Kinsey
Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction. View quote
E. O. Wilson
He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out. View quote
Iris Murdoch
Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat. View quote
Mary Renault