Intellectual Quotes - Page 16

This act of total surrender is not merely a fantastic intellectual and mystical gamble; it is something much more serious. It is an act of love for this unseen person, who, in the very gift of love by which we surrender ourselves to his reality also makes his presence known to us.

Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or intellectual beauty. Moral beauty has a tendency to decay very rapidly into sententiousness or untimeliness.

What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!

I approached the bulk of my schoolwork as a chore rather than an intellectual adventure.

Great writers, I discovered, were not to be bowed down before and worshipped, but embraced and befriended. Their names resounded through history not because they had massive brows and thought deep incomprehensible thoughts, but because they opened windows in the mind, they put their arms round you and showed you things you always knew but never dared to believe. Even if their names were terrifyingly foreign and intellectual sounding, Dostoevsky, Baudelaire or Cavafy, they turned out to be charming and wonderful and quite unalarming after all.

Why should we subsidize intellectual curiosity?

Intellectual activity is perhaps the greatest pleasure of life; chess is one of the forms of intellectual activity.

For me, the ultimate form of expression is blues, where jazz appeals to me on an intellectual level.

Ideology is: intellectual ordering of the feelings; an objective connection among them that makes the subjective connection easier.

You could have a lot of money at your fingertips, the finest education and intellectual knowledge, but if you are governed by fear none of that will matter. You will remain tied to dead ideas and stale strategies. You will not be able to adapt. You will lose what you have.

The greatest danger to the State is independent intellectual criticism.

Literary commercialism is lowering the intellectual standard to accommodate the purse and to meet a frivolous demand for amusement instead of for improvement.

Brains are an asset, if you hide them.

The goal of intellectual life should be to see and understand what is true, not merely to adhere to a prevailing orthodoxy.

When you're an actress you are in a very specific position, cerebrally, I would think you know. You are a thinking person but you are in a certain perception of the world between really being conceptual and completely stupid. So you are in between, with a lot of intuition and instinct. And that's not completely being intellectual because I think intuition is more blurred. It comes from intuition. Instinct. More than really reasoning.

An intellectual may be defined as a man who speaks with general authority about a subject on which he has no particular competence.

The game of chess is the most fascinating and intellectual pastime which the wisdom of antiquity has bequeathed to us.

Numbers are intellectual witnesses that belong only to mankind.

High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered; they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make.

I do have a peripatetic and active intellectual curiosity.

What opinions the masses hold, or do not hold, is looked upon as a matter of indifference. They can be granted intellectual liberty becasue they have no intellect.

Life is essentially a series of events to be lived through rather than intellectual riddles to be played with and solved.

The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.

The intellect is a cold thing and a merely intellectual idea will never stimulate thought in the same manner that a spiritual idea does.