Intellectual Quotes - Page 2

Mindgasm (noun) - An exhilarating neurostorm of intense intellectual pleasure. Fully revelatory understanding of a certain topic. Involuntary contractions of brain muscles usually accompanied by the overwhelming sensation of truth proximity. Visionarism. State of awe.

It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble.

I want people to know what it is they're looking at. But at the same time, the closer they get to the painting, it's like going back into childhood. And it's like an abstract piece.. it becomes the landscape of the brush marks rather than just sort of an intellectual landscape.

Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition.

All the civilizations we know have been created and directed by small intellectual aristocracies, never by people in the mass. The power of crowds is only to destroy.

Reduce intellectual and emotional noise until you arrive at the silence of yourself and listen to it.

Intellectualism came very late to America. That's why Americans are so proud of it. I found very few real intellectuals in America. But there are so many pseudo-intellectuals.

Mystery is an intellectual process... But suspense is essentially an emotional process.

I refuse to engage in an intellectual battle with an unarmed man.

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

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.

I found that I faced a highly complex situation, and that I couldnt hope to change it until I had armed myself with the necessary psychological and intellectual capacity. My contemplation of life and human nature in that secluded place had taught me that he who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality, and will never, therefore, make any process.

You will not persuade me with appeals to my intellectual vanity.

The rapists of the intellectual world become politicians; the seducers become artists.

All propaganda must be popular and its intellectual level must be adjusted to the most limited intelligence among those it is addressed to.

An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.

Every mind has a horizon in respect to its present intellectual capacity but not in respect to its future intellectual capacity.

Blind belief can be comforting, but it can easily cripple reason and productivity, and stop intellectual progress.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

One can remain alive ... if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity interested in big things and happy in small ways.

It is time for us to take off our masks, to step out from behind our personas - whatever they might be: educators, activists, biologists, geologists, writers, farmers, ranchers, and bureaucrats - and admit we are lovers, engaged in an erotics of place. Loving the land. Honoring its mysteries. Acknowledging, embracing the spirit of place - there is nothing more legitimate and there is nothing more true. That is why we are here. That is why we do what we do. There is nothing intellectual about it. We love the land. It is a primal affair.

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.

The intellectual advancement of man depends on how often he can exchange an old superstition for a new truth.

Be wary of the arrogant intellectual who comments from the stands without having played on the field.

Never confuse faith, or belief — of any kind — with something even remotely intellectual.