Quotes About Intellectual Conversation

#1. As a child I wanted to be a grown-up. I wanted to know everything - not that I like to talk about it. I hate intellectual conversation with intellectuals because I only care about my opinion.

Karl Lagerfeld

#2. When you get a critique, people think you're criticizing them but it's really an intellectual conversation. You can't get emotionally attached.

Kalup Linzy

#3. These intellectual guys don't like to have an intellectual conversation with you unless they're running the whole thing.

J.D. Salinger

#4. Discussions should always be held just before going to bed, your rear protected by sleep. How painful, after an intellectual conversation, to have to go about with your mind so stirred up.

Thomas Mann

#5. I don't think men approach me for intellectual conversation.

Megan Fox

#6. These esoteric, intellectual debates-I want them to come to New Jersey and sit across from the widows and the orphans and have that conversation,

Chris Christie

#7. What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher.

William Glasser

#8. In every thing that relates to science, I am a whole Encyclopaedia behind the rest of the world.

Charles Lamb

#9. I am left without answers. There are only questions I must answer for myself. What is the balance between home and the road? Hearth and horizon? Between what is and what could be?

Gloria Steinem

#10. Dare to try, knowing that you will make mistakes. You will fall short again and again, because there is no effort without error. In the end, you will either know the triumph of high achievement, or if you fail, you will fail while daring greatly.

Tessa Afshar

#11. The best conversation is rare. Society seems to have agreed to treat fictions as realities, and realities as fictions; and the simple lover of truth, especially if on very high grounds, as a religious or intellectual seeker, finds himself a stranger and alien.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#12. Socrates pioneered conversation as a means of intellectual exploration, of questioning assumptions, ones so deeply ingrained we dont even know we have them.

Eric Weiner

#13. If the minds of women were enlightened and improved, the domestic work would be more frequently refreshed by intelligent conversation, a means of edification now deplorably neglected, for want of that cultivation which these intellectual advantages would confer.

Sarah Moore Grimke

#14. I am afraid that you have been listening to the conversation of someone older than yourself. That is always a dangerous thing to do, and if you allow it to degenerate into a habit, you will find it absolutely fatal to any intellectual development.

Oscar Wilde

#15. Why did God have to make Mo'Nique a good actress? What was God thinking when he decided to give Mo'Nique acting chops. Now we have to endure Mo'Nique comedy specials.

Andy Kindler

#16. The Sierra Nevada is five hundred miles of rock put right. Granite freed by glaciers and lifted through clouds where water, frozen and fine, has scraped and washed it into a high country so brilliant it brings light into night.

Willard Wyman

#17. Relationships never provide you with everything. They provide you with some things. You take all you want from a person - sexual chemistry, let's say, or good conversation, or financial support, or intellectual compatibility, or niceness, or loyalty - and you get to pick three of them.

Hanya Yanagihara

#18. I wouldn't want [the people of Baleyworld] to live that long as a general thing. The pace of historical and intellectual advance would then become too slow. Those at the top would stay in power too long. Baleyworld would sink into conversation and decay - as your world has done.

Isaac Asimov

#19. The general effect was rather as if I had swallowed six-pennorth of dynamite and somebody touched it off inside me.

P.G. Wodehouse

#20. At its heart, all intellectual and emotional life is a conversation, and the conversation begins at birth.

Susan Jacoby

#21. Anti-Semitic publications have existed in Germany for centuries. A book I had, written by Dr. Martin Luther, was, for instance, confiscated. Dr. Martin Luther would very probably sit in my place in the defendants' dock today, if this book had been taken into consideration by the prosecution.

Julius Streicher

#22. I personally like the idea of newspapers. It's a good format. You can read it in whatever order you want. You can glance at it. There is something about a single screen and scrolling through pages that just doesn't have the same appeal.

Matt Groening

#23. The Martians are always coming.

Philip K. Dick

#24. We have $70 and a pair of girl's underpants. We're safe as kittens.

Anthony Michael Hall

#25. Thank you, sir, but I am perfectly content being the bride of death.

Seth Grahame-Smith