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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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Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.
- Graduation
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The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.
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Once we no longer have the intellectual upper hand, then we quite literally, by definition, cannot outwit our successors. So unless we are absolutely sure that the machines we are building right now are not going to eventually become our new robot overlords, prudence is called for.
- Power
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In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits.
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What we now call 'finance' is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.
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Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic concept.
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Pol Pot - he rounded up anybody he thought was intellectual and had them executed. And how he told someone was intellectual or not was whether they wore glasses. If they're that clever, take them off when they see him coming!
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I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing.
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It is ironic that the United States should have been founded by intellectuals, for throughout most of our political history, the intellectual has been for the most part either an outsider, a servant or a scapegoat.
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The concept of cultural appropriation is nothing less than an intellectual fence: Keep out.
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I'm not an intellectual in any sense, I have constraints of erudition. I'm not able to deal with things outside my ken, and that makes me irritable. I'm irritable about the fact that I never went to university.
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What is now called 'green architecture' is an opportunistic caricature of a much deeper consideration of the issues related to sustainability that architecture has been engaged with for many years. It was one of the first professions that was deeply concerned with these issues and that had an intellectual response to them.
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I won a Marshall scholarship to read philosophy at Oxford, and what I most wanted to do was strengthen public intellectual culture - I'd write books and essays to help us figure out who we wanted to be.
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I went to work for Catholics United for the Faith, and I basically found myself in the midst of the traditionalist branch of the Catholic revival. There is an intellectual rigor that is very much valued there and that I was in awe of.
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I need three million dollars to make a low-budget, intellectual, artistic, exciting, erotic movie with a great soundtrack.
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.