Top 100 Intellectually Quotes
#1. I know intellectually that if I shake somebody's hand that I'm not going to get sick and die.
Howie Mandel
#2. The emphasis in doing any in-depth photography is on building relationships, quality relationships. It's what I call thirty-cups-of-coffee-a-frame photography. You need to enter into the community - not just photographically, but intellectually and emotionally.
Lynn Johnston
#3. Berkeley had a liberal element in the student body who tended to be quite active. I think that's in general a feature of intellectually active places.
John Searle
#4. A vast sector of modern advertising ... does not appeal to reason but to emotion; like any other kind of hypnoid suggestion, it tries to impress its objects emotionally and then make them submit intellectually.
Erich Fromm
#5. Training the intellect does not result in intelligence. Intelligence comes into being when one acts in perfect harmony, both intellectually and emotionally.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#6. Poor white trash quoting de Maistre and Carlyle and fancying themselves elite while they scrabbled to survive in a world where they were outstripped economically by the Chinese and intellectually by their own phones.
Ken MacLeod
#7. If you are not thinking universally and intellectually, you can only remain flawlessly stagnant.
Lionel Suggs
#8. It is difficult to wrap your mind around this intellectually and until you've had the experience, it can be difficult to understand. I tell people to give it a shot; you have nothing to lose.
Robert Moss
#9. If one just intellectually understands the view it will not help! One must actually experience it! There are many people who understand the view but don't experience it. If the view were experienced, they wouldn't act the way they do!
Padampa Sangye
#10. I think it is really important to be in some way provocative
either intellectually or viscerally
in the films one makes.
Peter Greenaway
#11. Most contemporary fiction sucks. It's intellectually dishonest, often morally dishonest. It's cheap and easy. It pretends to be deep but is really quite shallow.
Dale Peck
#12. In the first place, the ideas of people who are not intellectually free are always in a muddle, and it's extremely difficult to talk to them; and, secondly, they usually love no one, and have nothing to do with women, and their mysticism has an unpleasant effect on sensitive people. I
Anton Chekhov
#13. We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
Gore Vidal
#14. Whenever people are being intellectually dishonest in debate, it is an implicit concession they have lost the fight
Barney Frank
#15. A few years ago, Bill Gates was boasting that we'll soon have sensors which will turn on the music that we like or show on the walls the paintings we like when we walk into a room. How boring! The hell with our preexisting likes; let's expand ourselves intellectually.
Denis Dutton
#16. Edmondson has incisively discussed the ways college campuses have grown akin to upscale retirement homes for the very young, where the promise of intellectually demanding courses ranks far below the lure of new gymnastic facilities.
Maureen Corrigan
#18. Poverty places not just one or two obstacles but multiple obstacles in a child's pathway to what we would consider to be regular development - cognitively, intellectually and emotionally.
Geoffrey Canada
#19. My experience with journalists authorize me to record that a very large number of them are ignorant, lazy, opinionated, intellectually dishonest, and inadequately supervised.... They have huge power, and many of them are extremely reckless.
Conrad Black
#20. He was one of those people who stared at you with a meaningful smile on their face, as if he was somehow intellectually and spiritually superior, when the fact was he was simply socially inept.
Kate Atkinson
#21. When you tell people you're in history, they give you this pained expression because that was the course they hated in high school. But history can be exciting, intellectually rigorous, and fun.
Robert Darnton
#22. Public libraries have been a mainstay of my life. They represent an individual's right to acquire knowledge; they are the sinews that bind civilized societies the world over. Without libraries, I would be a pauper, intellectually and spiritually.
James A. Michener
#23. The average American of today is intellectually so far removed from his forbears that instead of regarding government with apprehension, he is more likely to regard it as a virtual parent, concerned only with protecting and helping him
George Reisman
#24. I loved New York - every inch of it. It was a little bit scary at that time, but still, the excitement was so strong - visually and intellectually. It was like a monster.
Ai Weiwei
#25. When you see, not only intellectually but with your heart too, how we are all connected, how can you harm another? It's the same as harming oneself.
Narissa Doumani
#26. Every interview with a public figure should include the question "What have you been wrong about, and how did that change your views?" The answer will tell us if the person is intellectually honest or a tale spinner with delusions of infallibility.
Stewart Brand
#27. I think some people wished I'd kept myself out of the book. But I kind of insist on it because I want the reader to share my engagement with the material, if you like, not pretend that I'm doing it completely intellectually.
Helen Garner
#28. Those of us who stayed were younger, more tractable. Less sure of ourselves socially and intellectually, we gave ourselves to the sport with little idea of what we could give or receive.
Stefan Kieszling
#29. Intellectually, as politically, the direction of all true progress is towards greater freedom, and along an endless succession of ideas.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#30. People will begin to explore all the sidestreets of sexual experience, but they will do it intellectually ... Sex won't take place in the bed, necessarily
it'll take place in the head!
J.G. Ballard
#31. The amount of sophistication varies according to the quality of the medium, and to the state of the same medium at different times; it must be attributed in the best cases physiologically to the medium, intellectually to the control.
Oliver Joseph Lodge
#32. After he returned from Washington, Johnson came into Rowe's room and said, "I agree with everything you said." Perhaps he did agree - intellectually. But he didn't take the advice. He couldn't. He was beyond listening to warnings, as was demonstrated the next day, when the convention opened.
Robert A. Caro
#33. But the "Get Tough America" policy, the spirit of revenge, the approbation of all destruction and killing, has earned us a name for obscene brutality, and cost the World the possibility of Germany's becoming a peaceful and intellectually fruitful nation in anything but the most remote future.
Kurt Vonnegut
#34. It is better to read one intellectually challenging book every 12 months ... than to read 12 entertaining books every month.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#35. To be a European is to try to negotiate morally, intellectually and existentially the opposing statements and praxis of the city of Socrates and the city of Isaiah.
George Steiner
#36. People believe unbelievable things because it's self-flattering to think that you are intellectually daring enough to accept what others find preposterous.
Christopher Buckley
#37. No man can be intellectually insulted. Insult, in its very nature, is emotional.
Jack London
#38. When you poll all of the economists, uh, across America that I think are intellectually honest they would all, or maybe not all, but 95% of them 96% of them would say you know we really have got a powerful economy.
Donald Evans
#39. The first time I went over to [my director's] house, he said to me, This is a very strange play. I was pleased that he reminded me of that. [He] understands the play [VENUS] intellectually and emotionally and the humor, the funny bone.
Suzan-Lori Parks
#40. I feel that my job, as an artist, is to disturb the peace. And to disturb it intellectually, linguistically, politically and literally.
Gerald Stern
#41. Conversely, high-reactive children may be more likely to develop into artists and writers and scientists and thinkers because their aversion to novelty causes them to spend time inside the familiar - and intellectually fertile - environment of their own heads.
Susan Cain
#42. I often feel intellectually frustrated when I'm in a position where I'm not moving forward; when I'm not enquiring about something.
Eleanor Catton
#43. Bush, himself the most intellectually backward American president of my political lifetime, is surrounded by advisers whose bellicosity is exceeded only by their political, military and diplomatic illiteracy.
Gerald Kaufman
#45. [T]o argue that something is so because it is in the Bible is more than intellectually bankrupt.
Jon Meacham
#46. A world that is intellectually mature but morally infantile is on the road to ruin.
Joshua Loth Liebman
#47. I left Delhi in 1989 and remember very little of how life used to be then. Increasingly, in my recent visits to Delhi, I've started to realize that the city has become intellectually very lively. It makes me want to discover the city over and over again.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#48. The scientific argument advanced for intelligent design at the Dover trial, those arguments collapsed, scientifically and intellectually.
Kenneth R. Miller
#49. The tragedy of all political action is that some problems have no solution; none of the alternatives are intellectually consistent or morally uncompromising; and whatever decision is taken will harm somebody.
James Joll
#50. There is no worse torture than knowing intellectually
about love and the way.
Those Egyptian women, when they saw Joseph,
they were not judging his handsomeness.
They were lost in it,
cutting their hands as they cut their food.
Rumi
#51. All children should be loved, protected, nurtured
emotionally and intellectually
respected, and never, under any circumstances, underestimated.
Augusten Burroughs
#52. Political leaders or governments owe their position partly to force and partly to popular election. They cannot be regarded as representative of best elements, morally or intellectually, in their respective nations.
Albert Einstein
#53. Algebra and money are essentially levelers; the first intellectually, the second effectively.
Simone Weil
#54. Lennon was not very fond of me. Lennon didn't like to be around somebody else who was likely to be the center of attention and didn't like being on deck with somebody who was intellectually as hot as he was.
Peter Fonda
#55. Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
William James
#56. I found that, much like gardening, most cooking manages to be agreeably absorbing without being too demanding intellectually. It leaves plenty of mental space for daydreaming and reflection.
Michael Pollan
#57. There must be head faith before there can be heart faith. We must believe intellectually before we can believe savingly in the Lord Jesus.
Arthur W. Pink
#58. When I was younger I would have told you it was my genius, but now I don't believe that for a second. Music just comes out of you, it flows through, it's weird. If you think about it intellectually, how does someone come up with two hundred riffs over their life time?
Tracii Guns
#59. Intellectually secure people do not need to show anyone how smart they are. They are empirical and seek truth. Intellectually insecure people need to show everyone how smart they are. They are egotistical and seek triumph.
Kevin Ashton
#60. It is conceivable that religion may be morally useful without being intellectually sustainable.
John Stuart Mill
#61. Don't run around looking for someone who can sexually satisfy you, run around and look for the book which will intellectually satisfy you.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#62. Christ had given the apostles a world-wide commission, embracing all the nations; but intellectually they did not understand what He meant. They found that out as they followed the impulse of the Spirit.
Roland Allen
#63. It is intellectually dishonest to lump venture investors with hedge fund and buy-out investors.
Jose Ferreira
#64. It wasn't like the World Trade Center, something vile and astonishing within our own borders, happening to people who'd saved coins of the same currency in their piggybanks when they were children. I knew intellectually that shouldn't make a difference, but it seemed to.
Michael Marshall
#65. The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land. - T. H. Huxley,
Carl Sagan
#66. I should say that generally I'm a pretty happy person, but as soon as I'm done with a project, I'm usually not happy at all. I feel a little empty and strange. I begin to think about how I can get better, stretch more artistically and intellectually. My biggest worry is getting complacent.
Philipp Meyer
#67. We must seek to be intellectually inclusive, just as we seek to be culturally inclusive. Ideas come and go - that's what makes a free society so vital.
Marianne Williamson
#68. I know I'm intellectually capable of finding a series of things and making hundreds of millions. I have to get there and do it. Carefully. Legally.
Jack Abramoff
#70. When you've been everywhere, tried it all and done it all, what's left is the exploration of self, intellectually and sexually, through curiosity and erotica.
Chloe Thurlow
#71. One can believe intellectually in the efficacy of prayer and never do any praying.
Catherine Marshall
#72. Being at the top of your game intellectually, philosophically, politically, is not a forever thing.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#73. In a more intellectually rigorous age, I wouldn't be talked about as a satirist at all. I would just be a topical comedian.
Rory Bremner
#74. No society lies nearer to the cyclonic path of the forces of world change than the United States, and few societies are more intellectually aware of the nature of the issues that have to be faced.
Christopher Dawson
#75. But investment in space stimulates society, it stimulates it economically, it stimulates it intellectually, and it gives us all passion.
Bill Nye
#76. Intellectually, we may appreciate that loving ourselves would give us a firm foundation but for most of us this is a leap of logic, not a leap of the heart.
Sharon Salzberg
#77. ... the director explained to him, in that slow, simplified, style of language that one uses for the intellectually underprivileged,
Gary Edward Gedall
#78. I have a bumper sticker that Bowen created that says Regardless of my kids grades, they have an 'A' in my book'. Without play the child that still lives in all of us will always be incomplete. And not only physically, but creatively, intellectually, and spiritually as well.
George A. Sheehan
#79. At the same time, much of it seems to have to do with recreating things we or others had already done; it seems rather derivative intellectually; is there a dearth of really new ideas?
Dennis Ritchie
#80. How can you read and talk at the same time?" I asked.
"Well, I usually can't, but neither the book nor the conversation is particularly intellectually challenging.
John Green
#81. No one can be saved, and attain eternal joy, without all of the following: (1) a morally honest acceptance of the demands of virtue, (2) a serious effort to practice it, (3) an intellectually honest confession of failure, (4) repentance, and (5) at least an implicit faith and hope in God as Savior.
Peter Kreeft
#82. If I had to choose criteria, for me, it's about first the director. I want to be a part of something that's good and intellectually challenging. After the director it's the character and the story. That's the deal for me.
Giovanni Ribisi
#83. It was some of Solomon's favorite music because it was dense and intellectually complicated and he wasn't expected to dance to it.
James S.A. Corey
#84. Obama is trying to paint us as a caricature, as if we're some bizarre individualists who are hardcore libertarians. It's a false dichotomy and intellectually lazy. Of course we believe in government. We think government should do what it does really well, but that it has limits.
Paul Ryan
#85. I had to be intellectually satisfied as well as emotionally because at that time of life one doesn't just fall into it in adolescent emotion, and I was satisfied at every point that it was the one way and the hard way to do things.
Ruth Pitter
#86. No one can be as intellectually slothful as a really smart person
Stephen King
#87. Intellectually, true beauty is very difficult to distinguish a priori from the bloom of youth.
Andre Breton
#88. But now what was I worth? The books I discovered at the behest of my intellectually superior professors are now coming to me thanks to an algorithm developed to suggest what I should buy based on what other similar shoppers have also bought...
Keith Buckley
#89. Rush Limbaugh makes money getting simpleminded people to feel good about their intellectually undernourished brain spasms. He's very good at it, and I scarcely believe a fraction of what he says.
Henry Rollins
#90. The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.
Malcolm Muggeridge
#91. I find value investing to be a stimulating, intellectually challenging, ever changing, and financially rewarding discipline
Seth Klarman
#92. To me ... San Francisco is an ideal city, intellectually stimulating and naturally beautiful. The oceans and forests are close enough to refresh the spirit; the architecture is always exciting.
Ruth Bernhard
#93. Jarecki's 'Reagan' is a compellingly watchable and appropriately conflicted portrait ... artfully nuanced and intellectually curious.
Hank Stuever
#94. The real problem with natural selection is that it makes no intuitive sense. It is like quantum physics; we may intellectually grasp it, but it will never feel right to us.
Paul Bloom
#95. I usually dumb down around the intellectually deficient so I don't come off like a complete prick.
Krista Ritchie
#96. I'm lucky enough to have a kid with me who is actually really intellectually up with what's going on in the world and actually puts his money where his mouth is and goes and does something about it; he goes and talks about it. It livens you up a bit and it brings you into the 21st Century.
Ray Winstone
#97. The intellectually-inclined biographers stray from the point that the message is directed through the spoken word at the broad masses and not writing to an inbred, self-adoring intellectual elite."
--Hitler: Beyond Evil and Tyranny, pp. 30-31
Russel H.S. Stolfi
#98. I am an English major in school with an emphasis in creative writing. I think hearing Maya Angelou speak at school last year was one of the best moments Stanford, at least, intellectually, had to offer.
Fred Savage
#99. We know intellectually that money can't buy happiness yet we spend and go into debt as if it does.
Michelle Singletary
#100. She had little patience with people who got intellectually lazy when faced with a difficult concept.
Beth Fantaskey
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