Highly Intellectual Quotes

#1. Space is an environment of emptiness. It offers no possibility for natural adaptation to any living organism - and particularly not to the highly sophisticated creature, man. Yet man has the ability to resolve this paradox through his intellectual power and creative faculties.

Hubertus Strughold

#2. Poetry is practically the only intellectual pursuit which we can be positive was highly developed and much practiced in pre-Islamic Arabia. It seems certain that the Arabic word for poet, shair, meant originally "one who knows," and the word for poetry, shir, "knowledge".

Franz Rosenthal

#3. The energy in the universe is not in the planets, or in the protons or neutrons, but in the relationship between them.

Richard Rohr

#4. The impediment to scientific thinking is not, I think, the difficulty of the subject. Complex intellectual feats have been mainstays even of oppressed cultures. Shamans, magicians and theologians are highly skilled in their intricate and arcane arts. No, the impediment is political and hierarchical.

Carl Sagan

#5. Changing yourself is supposed to mean hope, at least according to the self-help books and magazine paradigms, but for me - and I suspect many others - it simply means finding new ways to feel inadequate.

Noelle Howey

#6. Youth are active partners in Gujarat's development! Gujarat's approach towards skill development has been flexible, broad based, inclusive and with a long-term vision ...

Narendra Modi

#7. I have always disliked the fierce competitive spirit embodied in that highly intellectual game.

Albert Einstein

#8. In my life, I have almost always been on the side of active foreign policy. But you need to know with whom you are cooperating. You need reliable partners.

Henry A. Kissinger

#9. But to betray her with battalion ... That is against decency, against Nature ... And for him, Christopher tietjens, to come down to the level of the men you met here!

Ford Madox Ford

#10. The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance.

Robert Bork

#11. If you have somebody who's brilliant and highly creative with a different point of view than you have, and a very different intellectual background, great things can happen.

Kip Thorne

#12. So I'm writing more highly personalized and intellectual music, and I think that's good. It might take longer to find me, but I think that niche is perhaps underserved, so I'm going to serve that.

Paula Cole

#13. So, if weight loss is your goal, and you have impressive self-control, raw food is something to consider.

A. J. Jacobs

#14. Both Brutus and Hamlet are highly intellectual by nature and reflective by habit. Both may even be called, in a popular sense, philosophic; Brutus may be called so in a stricter sense.

Andrew Coyle Bradley

#15. the one Word that rips apart the day...

Thomas Pynchon

#16. The journey from shame to resentment is the shortest on there is.

Josh Bazell

#17. Now the whole point about machines is they are designed not to be random. When you call up a word processing program on your computer, you don't want it to be different every time you call it up. You want it to stay the same.

Rupert Sheldrake

#18. It's not highly intellectual material. I'm dedicating it to the pulp fiction of the past.

Bruce Boxleitner

#19. I really enjoy the iPad because you can multi-task: I can watch a movie, read, look at pictures that I shot - because I'm into photography. It serves a lot of purposes for me.

Tyson Chandler

#20. I don't need YouTube's money. I have my own money.

Jason Calacanis

#21. I hate leaving places i love i was never at one place long. am i selfish?

Joan Bauer

#22. An ad hominen attack against an intellectual, not against an idea, is highly flattering. It indicates that the person does not have anything intelligent to say about your message.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb