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Intellectual Quotes
Most Famous Intellectual Quotes of All Time!
Good intellectual work, this collection suggests, often comes bundled with a certain self-regard - an honest admission rather than a boast. Elsewhere, the distinction between physical courage and intellectual courage gets drawn sharply, a nuance worth sitting with alongside our Thought collection.
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- Greed
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Greed probably figures in my intellectual life as well, as I attempt to absorb a massive amount of information with consequent mental indigestion.
- Moment
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The fact is, every thinker, every philosopher, the moment he is forced to abandon his one-sided intellectual occupation by practical necessity, immediately returns to the general point of view of mankind.
- Man
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The few bright meteors in man's intellectual horizon could well be matched by women, were she allowed to occupy the same elevated position.
- Goals
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I'm really only interested in building this intellectual movement. The I.D.W. has bigger goals than anyone's buzz or celebrity.
- Medical
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I went to medical school after having decided to do so somewhere between my junior and senior year at Harvard - very late. I initially wanted to be an intellectual historian.
- Law
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I couldn't pass a senior high school math test right now, but I could probably teach intellectual property and trademark law at Harvard.
- Mind
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I did an episode of a show called 'Mind Games,' which is no longer on the air, and it was an intellectual comedy-drama. It was just really smart TV.
- Life
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The liberal professions, and in a wider sense the well-to-do classes, are certainly those with the liveliest taste for knowledge and the most active intellectual life.
- Exercise
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In my thesis, I made an intellectual exercise out of creating a pair of buildings that were a repeat but slightly different - dissonant things make me uncomfortable.
- Beast
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Wars, however frequent and destructive they may be, have never been able to kill entirely the intellectual and moral sense which raises man above the beast.
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Christianity becomes just a set of things you believe in. It's almost an intellectual kind of abstract issue.
- People
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For him to have understood me would have meant reorganizing his thinking... giving up his intellectual ballast, and few people are willing to risk such a radical move.
- Formation
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The intellectual evolution of the race consists in an increase in the number, delicacy, complexity, permanence and speed of formation of such associations.
There's also a case made for design as simply part of ordinary life rather than a lofty intellectual pursuit, and a nod to protecting original ideas and inventions in global trade. For more on how thinking shapes identity, see our Identity quotes.