Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
Albert Einstein

Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.
John F. Kennedy

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.
Theodore Roosevelt

I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn't educate America if they started at 6:30.
Groucho Marx

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.
George Washington

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.
Bill Gates

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, but to find intellectual capital - the world's best talents and greatest ideas.
Jack Welch

We bring together the best ideas - turning the meetings of our top managers into intellectual orgies.
Jack Welch

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
John Adams

God is a metaphor for that which trancends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.
Joseph Campbell

The intellect is a cold thing and a merely intellectual idea will never stimulate thought in the same manner that a spiritual idea does.
Ernest Holmes

The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.
Karl Marx

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.
George Orwell

The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.
Soren Kierkegaard

The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

I've never been an intellectual but I have this look.
Woody Allen

The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.
Noam Chomsky

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
Janis Joplin