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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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Marguerite Duras was a very good friend of mine and an intellectual hero. She was also a sort of mother figure. Of course she was an influence.
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The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters.
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I like intellectual journeys.
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Just as characteristic, perhaps, is the intellectual interdependence created through the development of the modern media of communication: post, telegraph, telephone, and popular press.
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The theoretically unrestricted right to develop power, to wage war against other states, is antisocial and is doubly dangerous, because the state as a mass entity represents a low moral and intellectual level.
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If I wasn't making a movie, I was trying to master a new musical instrument or trying to teach myself how to shave with a straight razor. I had to find the weirdest things just to increase my understanding of other cultures or other arts or intellectual pursuits.
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I suppose I've always carried what is regarded as a bit of unnecessary baggage in Britain. I've always carried the charge that I am an intellectual in politics.
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The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - taking an intellectual form.
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Boat building is intellectual - everything has a reason. In sculpture, it has a direction.
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Furthermore, the spirit of enterprise which had its first intellectual development in England has especially flourished here as well as throughout all of Canada, while the same spirit has become less virile in the land of its origin.
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An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
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Scientists tend to come in two stripes: those who have tremendous appetite and aptitude for the details, and those who illuminate the big picture. Sagan was definitely in the latter category, and he was profoundly good at it. He made connections that others did not have the intellectual breadth or courage to make.
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What has been forgotten is that there were major intellectual breakthroughs in the 1960s, thanks to North American writers of an older generation. There was a rupture in continuity, since most young people influenced by those breakthroughs did not enter the professions.
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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.
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.