- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like the intellectual label.
- President
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- Nov 07, 2020
President Gerald Ford was no intellectual, but he had served with distinction in combat as a naval gunnery officer and then as Congressman for a quarter century.
- Quality
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a financial historian, I was quite isolated in Oxford - British historians are supposed to write about kings - so the quality of intellectual life in my field is much higher at Harvard. The students work harder there.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm an intellectual, but I've always had jobs that required physical labor above all else.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to do something far from my intellectual and physical home, so I went to live in Beijing for eight months and took Mandarin Chinese.
- Constitution
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Constitution separated the ideologies and values of the Church from the State, and leaders of the State were thus educated in matters pertaining to the State. These leaders proved themselves time after time with their pragmatic intellectual capacities.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Americans are completely stupid. The intellectual level in any single European country is higher than in America.
- Politician
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- Nov 07, 2020
An intellectual may be interested in ideas and policies for their own sake, but a politician's interest is exclusively in the question of whether an idea's time has come.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I loved Woody Allen's short pieces. I was equally influenced by Woody Allen and Norman Mailer. I was very into this idea of being high-low, of being serious and intellectual but also making really broad jokes.
- Integrity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Within the confines of the lecture hall, no other virtue exists but plain intellectual integrity.
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.