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Image of Vanna Bonta
I'm not an intellectual, I'm just a writer.
- Vanna Bonta
Collection: Intellectual
Image of Ray Bradbury
Painting fulfills a need to be non-intellectual. There are times when we have to get our brains out in our fingers.
- Ray Bradbury
Collection: Intellectual
Image of Keith Richards
One of the great things about songwrighting; it's not an intellectual experience
- Keith Richards
Collection: Intellectual
Image of George Bernard Shaw
The function of comedy is to dispelunconsciousness by turning the searchlight of the keenest moral and intellectual analysisright on to it.
- George Bernard Shaw
Collection: Intellectual
Image of Henry Rollins
Cynicism is only intellectual sloth.
- Henry Rollins
Collection: Intellectual
Image of Georges Bataille
Inner experience ... is not easily accessible and, viewed from the outside by intelligence, it would even be necessary to see in it a sum of distinct operations, some intellectual, others aesthetic, yet others moral. ... It is only from within, lived to the point of terror, that it appears to unify that which discursive thought must separate.
- Georges Bataille
Collection: Intellectual
Image of Camille Paglia
French rhetorical models are too narrow for the English tradition. Most pernicious of French imports is the notion that there is no person behind a text. Is there anything more affected, aggressive, and relentlessly concrete than a Parisan intellectual behind his/her turgid text? The Parisian is a provincial when he pretends to speak for the universe.
- Camille Paglia
Collection: Intellectual
Image of Dennis Prager
Leftism hides under an intellectual veneer, but underneath it is all emotion
- Dennis Prager
Collection: Intellectual
Image of Alan Watts
Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap.
- Alan Watts
Collection: Intellectual
Image of Virginia Woolf
Intellectual freedom depends upon material things.
- Virginia Woolf
Collection: Intellectual
Image of Edward Abbey
How could anything non-controversial be of intellectual interest to grown-ups?
- Edward Abbey
Collection: Intellectual
Image of Robert M. Pirsig
We must understand that when a society undermines intellectual freedom for its own purposes it is absolutely morally bad, but when it represses biological freedom for its own purposes it is absolutely morally good.
- Robert M. Pirsig
Collection: Intellectual
Image of Rebecca West
domestic work is the most elementary form of labor. It is suitable for those with the intelligence of rabbits. All it requires is cleanlines, tidiness and quickness - not moral or intellectual qualities at all, but merely the outward and visible signs of health.
- Rebecca West
Collection: Intellectual
Image of Oscar Wilde
What is mind but motion in the intellectual sphere?
- Oscar Wilde
Collection: Intellectual
Image of Edward Weston
My work is never intellectual. I never make a negative unless emotionally moved by my subject.
- Edward Weston
Collection: Intellectual
Image of William Shakespeare
He was not so much brain as earwax
- William Shakespeare
Collection: Intellectual
Image of Radhanath Swami
Faith in God goes beyond intellectual presentation and logic.
- Radhanath Swami
Collection: Intellectual
Image of Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I'm a private intellectual, not a public one.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Collection: Intellectual
Image of Richard Whately
Of metaphors, those generally conduce most to energy or vivacity of style which illustrate an intellectual by a sensible object.
- Richard Whately
Collection: Intellectual
Image of Oscar Wilde
The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value.
- Oscar Wilde
Collection: Intellectual
Image of George Santayana
Music contains a whole gamut of experience, from sensuous elements to ultimate intellectual harmonies.
- George Santayana
Collection: Intellectual
Image of Matt    Chandler
Intellectual ascent to correct doctrine is not salvation
- Matt Chandler
Collection: Intellectual
Image of Maria Montessori
A great deal of time and intellectual force are lost in the world, because the false seems great and the truth so small and insignificant.
- Maria Montessori
Collection: Intellectual
Image of Elisabeth Elliot
The Bible doesn't explain everything necessary for our intellectual satisfaction, but it explains everything necessary for our obediance.
- Elisabeth Elliot
Collection: Intellectual
Image of Robert M. Pirsig
The thing to understand is that if you are going to reform society you don't start with cops. And if you are going to reform intellect you don't start with psychiatrists. If you don't like our present social system or intellectual system the best thing you can do with either cops or psychiatrists is stay out of their way. You leave them 'till last.
- Robert M. Pirsig
Collection: Intellectual
Image of George Steiner
There are three intellectual pursuits, and, so far as I am aware, only three, in which human beings have performed major feats before the age of puberty. They are music, mathematics, and chess.
- George Steiner
Collection: Intellectual
Image of Friedrich Nietzsche
The elimination of the will altogether and the switching off of the emotions all and sundry, is tantamount to the elimination of reason: intellectual castration.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Collection: Intellectual
Image of Freya Stark
Who dares to be intellectual in the presence of death?
- Freya Stark
Collection: Intellectual
Image of Arthur Schopenhauer
The greatest intellectual capacities are only found in connection with a vehement and passionate will.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Collection: Intellectual
Image of David Bowie
Critics I don't understand. They get too intellectual. They're not very well-versed in street talk; it takes them longer to say it. So they have to do it in dictionaries and they take longer to say it.
- David Bowie
Collection: Intellectual
Image of Tariq Ramadan
We need modesty not only in the way we dress; we need intellectual modesty.
- Tariq Ramadan
Collection: Intellectual
Image of John Stuart Mill
Almost all rich veins of original and striking speculation have been opened by systematic half-thinkers.
- John Stuart Mill
Collection: Intellectual
Image of Mae West
Brains are an asset, if you hide them.
- Mae West
Collection: Intellectual
Image of Robert M. Pirsig
Objects are inorganic and biological values; subjects are social and intellectual values.
- Robert M. Pirsig
Collection: Intellectual
Image of Robert M. Pirsig
Squareness is such a uniquely intellectual disease.
- Robert M. Pirsig
Collection: Intellectual
Image of Jane Smiley
One of the things that Ivar knew about Mrs. Walker was that she would only tell him what she knew if he asked the right question, so he spent a portion of his time meditating over what he might ask Mrs. Walker and how he might phrase the question.
- Jane Smiley
Collection: Intellectual
Image of Boethius
Love has three kinds of origin, namely: suffering, friendship and love. A human love has a corporal and intellectual origin.
- Boethius
Collection: Intellectual
Image of Rajneesh
Remember, intelligence is not part of the mind. Intellect is, but intelligence is not; hence, the intellectual is full of mind but in life he behaves very unintelligently. He has a certain expertise, he is trained intellectually to, do a certain thing, his mind is functioning like a computer. But life is not one-dimensional, you cannot exhaust it in one expertise; it is multi-dimensional.
- Rajneesh
Collection: Intellectual
Image of Joseph A. Schumpeter
The intellectual and social climate needed to allow entrepreneurship to thrive will not exist in advanced capitalism.
- Joseph A. Schumpeter
Collection: Intellectual
Image of George Orwell
The Communism of the English intellectual is something explicable enough. It is the patriotism of the deracinated.
- George Orwell
Collection: Intellectual
Image of Ayn Rand
The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
- Ayn Rand
Collection: Intellectual
Image of Bertrand Russell
Collective wisdom, alas, is no adequate substitute for the intelligence of individuals. Individuals who opposed received opinions have been the source of all progress, both moral and intellectual. They have been unpopular, as was natural.
- Bertrand Russell
Collection: Intellectual
Image of Natalie Portman
There is a lot lacking on the intellectual side and on the values side when being an actor.
- Natalie Portman
Collection: Intellectual
Image of Ayn Rand
A free mind and a free market are corollaries.
- Ayn Rand
Collection: Intellectual
Image of Simone Weil
Intellectual adherence is never owed to anything whatsoever, for it is never in any degree a voluntary thing. Attention alone is voluntary. It alone forms the subject of an obligation.
- Simone Weil
Collection: Intellectual
Image of Edward Abbey
Generally speaking, it's a matter of only mild intellectual interest to me whether the earth goes around the sun or the sun goes around the earth. In fact, I don't care a rat's ass either way.
- Edward Abbey
Collection: Intellectual
Image of Susan Sontag
Anthropology has always struggled with an intense, fascinated repulsion towards its subject.... [The anthropologist] submits himself to the exotic to confirm his own inner alienation as an urban intellectual.
- Susan Sontag
Collection: Intellectual
Image of Dennis Prager
My great project is to undo the moral and intellectual damage of most universities
- Dennis Prager
Collection: Intellectual
Image of Zygmunt Bauman
For intellectual authority, the appropriate version of Descartes 's cogito would be today: I am talked about, therefore I am.
- Zygmunt Bauman
Collection: Intellectual