Definition of Intellectual

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Intellectual

Belonging to, or performed by, the intellect; mental; as, intellectual powers, activities, etc.

Endowed with intellect; having the power of understanding; having capacity for the higher forms of knowledge or thought; characterized by intelligence or mental capacity; as, an intellectual person.

Suitable for exercising the intellect; formed by, and existing for, the intellect alone; perceived by the intellect; as, intellectual employments.

Relating to the understanding; treating of the mind; as, intellectual philosophy, sometimes called "mental" philosophy.

The intellect or understanding; mental powers or faculties.

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Intellectual Quotations

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

Intellectual Translations

intellectual in Dutch is intellectueel, verstandelijk
intellectual in French is intellecvwgl
intellectual in Norwegian is forstandsmessig, intellektuell
intellectual in Portuguese is intelectual
intellectual in Spanish is intelectual
intellectual in Swedish is intellektuell

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