Intellectual Quotes - Page 12

• It is not my job to compare my movies. I don't like to compare my films with other movies because I don't really have that perspective. It is an intellectual exercise, but it doesn't intuitively come to me.

  Steven Spielberg

  Jobs, Exercise, Perspective

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• Amherst was pivotal in my broad intellectual development; MIT in my development as a professional economist.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Mit, Development, Broads

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• And that must end us, that must be our cure: To be no more. Sad cure! For who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish, rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated night Devoid of sense and motion?

  John Milton

  Pain, Night, Eternity

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 2, l. 146

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• Her countenance was all expression; her eyes were not dark but impenetrably deep; you seemed to discover space after space in their intellectual glance.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Eye, Dark, Expression

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1833). “The Last Man”, p.14

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• The sheer quantity of brain power that hurled itself voluntarily and quixotically into the search for new baseball knowledge was either exhilarating or depressing, depending on how you felt about baseball. The same intellectual resources might have cured the common cold, or put a man on Pluto.

  Michael Lewis

  Baseball, Depressing, Men

  Michael Lewis (2004). “Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game”, p.81, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Films today show only a dream world and have lost touch with the way people really are... In this country, people die at 21. They die emotionally at 21, maybe younger... My responsibility as an artist is to help people get past 21... The films are a roadmap through emotional and intellectual terrain that provides a solution on how to save pain.

  John Cassavetes

  Dream, Country, Pain

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• It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble. An animal perfectly in harmony with its environment is a perfect mechanism. Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no change and no need of change. Only those animals partake of intelligence that have a huge variety of needs and dangers.

  H. G. Wells

  Animal, Law, Perfect

  H. G. Wells “The Time Machine”, Games by CC

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• However much you study, you cannot know without action. A donkey laden with books is neither an intellectual nor a wise man. Empty of essence, what learning has he whether upon him is firewood or book?

  Saadi

  Wise, Philosophy, Book

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• no subject of study is more important than reading…all other intellectual powers depend on it.

  Jacques Barzun

  Reading, Important, Study

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• As I understand it, I am being paid only for my work in arranging the words; my property is that arrangement. The thoughts in this book, on the contrary, are not mine. They came freely to me, and I give them freely away. I have no "intellectual property," and I think that all claimants to such property are theives.

  Wendell Berry

  Book, Thinking, Giving

  Wendell Berry (1993). “Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community: Eight Essays”, Pantheon

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• [T]he more one is conscious of one's political bias, the more chance one has of acting politically without sacrificing one's aesthetic and intellectual integrity.

  George Orwell

  Integrity, Sacrifice, Political

  George Orwell (2009). “Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays”, p.229, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I like 'pencil-necked weasel'. It has 'pencil' in it. Pencils are good things. You can draw or write things with pencils. I think it's what you call someone when you're worried that using a long word like 'intellectual' may have too many syllables. It's not something that people who have serious, important things to say call other people.

  Neil Gaiman

  Writing, Thinking, Long

  "Neil Gaiman hits back at US politician's theft accusation" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. May 5, 2011.

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• There is nothing anti-intellectual in the leap of faith, for faith is not believing without proof but trusting without reservation.

  William Sloane Coffin

  Believe, Leap Of Faith, Proof

  William Sloane Coffin (2004). “Credo”, p.8, Westminster John Knox Press

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• The golden rule for understanding spiritually is not intellect, but obedience. If a man wants scientific knowledge, intellectual curiosity is his guide; but if he wants insight into what Jesus Christ teaches, he can only get it by obedience.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Men, Understanding

  Oswald Chambers (1935). “The Golden Book of Oswald Chambers: My Utmost for His Highest; Selections for the Year”

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• Even the intellectual crowd will have none of me. Physically, I look like one of them. Graying at the temples, I walk with a slight limp and wear thick glasses.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

  Groucho Marx (2008). “Memoirs Of A Mangy Lover”, p.94, Da Capo Press

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• Some are born great, others achieve greatness.

  William Shakespeare

  Greatness, Achieve, Born

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• To-day we live so cowed under the bombardment of this intellectual artillery that hardly anyone can attain to the inward detachment that is required for a clear view of the monstrous drama. The will-to-power operating under a pure democratic disguise has finished off its masterpiece so well that the object's sense of freedom is actually flattered by the most thorough-going enslavement that has ever existed.

  Oswald Spengler

  Drama, Views, Media

  "The Decline of the West (Volume II)". Book by Oswald Spengler, 1928.

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• What then is the intellectual advantage of civilization over primitive savagery? It is not necessarily that each civilized man has more knowledge but that he requires far less.

  Thomas Sowell

  Men, Civilization, Advantage

  Thomas Sowell (1996). “Knowledge And Decisions”, p.7, Basic Books

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• The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries.

  David Rockefeller

  Determination, Past, World Government

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• Where questions of religion are concerned, people are guilty of every possible sort of dishonesty and intellectual misdemeanor.

  Sigmund Freud

  Lying, People, Religion

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• There's nothing like the discovery of an unknown work by a great thinker to set the intellectual community atwitter and cause academics to dart about like those things one sees when looking at a drop of water under a microscope.

  Woody Allen

  Discovery, Water, Community

  Woody Allen (2007). “Mere Anarchy”, Random House Incorporated

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• I must feel the fire of my soul so my intellectual blues can set others on fire.

  Cornel West

  Fire, Soul, Feels

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• Beer's intellectual. What a shame so many idiots drink it.

  Ray Bradbury

  Drinking, Beer, Idiot

  Ray Bradbury (1955). “THE OCTOBER COUNTRY”

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• In chess, as a purely intellectual game, where randomness is excluded, - for someone to play against himself is absurd ... It is as paradoxical, as attempting to jump over his own shadow.

  Stefan Zweig

  Games, Play, Shadow

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• There are intellectual vagabonds, to whom the hereditary dwelling-place of their fathers seems too cramped and oppressive for them to be willing to satisfy themselves with the limited space any more: instead of keeping within the limits of a temperate style of thinking, and taking as inviolable truth what furnishes comfort and tranquility to thousands, they overlap all bounds of the traditional and run wild with their imprudent criticism and untamed mania for doubt, these extravagating vagabonds.

  Max Stirner

  Running, Father, Thinking

  Max Stirner (1982). “The Ego and Its Own”, p.113, Rebel Press

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