Intellectual Quotes

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

Life, Success, Education

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

Death, Growth, Birth

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

Fitness, Important, Creative

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

God, Simple, Thought

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert Camus

Mind, Someone, Whose

My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.
Billy Connolly

Someone, Thinking, Tell

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

Life, Knowing, Content

I don't consider myself an intellectual. And this is not one of my aims. But I admire intellectual people.
Marilyn Monroe

Consider, Admire, Aims

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
Thomas Sowell

Failure, Ignore, Socialism

An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.
Aldous Huxley

Sex, Person, Found

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

America, Read, Started

This revolution, the information revoultion, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy. It's very crude today, yet our Macintosh computer takes less power than a 100-watt bulb to run it and it can save you hours a day. What will it be able to do ten or 20 years from now, or 50 years from now?
Steve Jobs

Power, Today, Revolution

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
Charles Bukowski

Simple, Hard, Artist

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

Great, Done, Effort

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

Questions, Answers, Creates

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

Life, Property, Banana

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

Words, Tell, Knows

To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Life, Exercise, Devoted

The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, 'I was wrong'.
Sydney J. Harris

Love, Hate, Wrong

We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.
Calvin Coolidge

Power, Spiritual, Seen

Believe me, the intellectual revolution is going on, and that has to come first before you see the political changes. That's where I'm very optimistic.
Ron Paul

Political, Revolution, Before

I don't really get into a big intellectual analysis of why I am going to do a certain script or not.
Clint Eastwood

Why, Big, Analysis

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.
Christopher Morley

Humor, Important, Two

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.
Thomas Sowell

Science, Technology, Often

All in the Family was intellectual; it was art.
Carroll O'Connor

The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
Bertrand Russell

Natural, Demand, Vice

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
Immanuel Kant

Experience, Play, Blind

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

Power, Thought, Liberty

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

Time, Different, Ordinary

The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference.
Audre Lorde

Emotional, Joy, Between

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