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Cynicism is only intellectual sloth. — Henry Rollins

The object of basic education is the physical, intellectual and moral development of children through the medium of handicraft. — Mahatma Gandhi

My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his intellectual freedom. — Franz Boas

intellectual cowardice is the worst enemy a writer or journalist has to face, and — George Orwell

The British judiciary needs to support intellectual property. — James Dyson

To answer brutality with brutality is to admit one's moral and intellectual bankruptcy. — Mahatma Gandhi

An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike. — Spiro T. Agnew

The outcome of insane parents is either a murderer or an intellectual. — M.F. Moonzajer

It is not true that a man's intellectual power is, like the strength of a timber beam, to be measured by its weakest point. — George Eliot

The high intellectual value of images, however, lies in the fact that they usually, and perhaps always, fit more than one actual experience. — Susanne Katherina Langer

Human philosophy tends to shake down into values which might be categorized as intellectual, religious, moral, and aesthetic. — Dan Simmons

It's not the most intellectual job in the world, but I do have to know the letters. — Vanna White

My own work in spin glass and its consequences has formed some of the intellectual basis for these interests. — Philip Warren Anderson

It doesn't matter how wealthy you may be in material things, what matters is do you know what to do with those wealth? — Jaachynma N.E. Agu

The discovery that the universe was expanding was one of the great intellectual revolutions of the twentieth century. — Stephen Hawking

You know, albums are a funny thing. They're not like an intellectual decision. It's a collection of your kind of musings. — Glen Hansard

The production of a work of art is determined by the material and intellectual climate in which a man lives and dies. — Hippolyte Taine

The "Creed of Christendom" is alien to my nature, both emotional and intellectual. — Herbert Spencer

Cynicism is intellectual dandyism. — George Meredith

A man must be quite intelligent in order to accept that a woman is his intellectual equal. — Dora Musielak

When Athena falls in love, it's purely intellectual. It's a meeting of minds. The purest kind of love. — Rick Riordan

You cannot steal somebody's intellectual property. Law and justice protect. — Bikram Choudhury

I'm an intellectual, but I've always had jobs that required physical labor above all else. — Niall Matter

Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction. — Edward O. Wilson

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

This was a time of great intellectual excitement for me. Both college and law school opened up new worlds of ideas. — Samuel Alito

I think we have the wrong notion of commercial and intellectual or artistic film. Because all films are commercial. — Luc Besson

Then he leans back in his chair, pressing his hands together like he's having an intellectual bowel movement, his brows seriously furrowed. — J. Lincoln Fenn

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education. — John Ruskin

There is no such thing as intellectual property. — Jean-Luc Godard

Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise — Alfred North Whitehead

Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second. — Maurice Ravel

A social democratic party without deep roots in the working class movement would quickly fade into an unrepresentative intellectual sect. — Roy Jenkins

Intellectual despair is a subject for comedy. — Marty Rubin

Numbers are intellectual witnesses that belong only to mankind. — Honore De Balzac

A great deal of time and intellectual force are lost in the world, because the false seems great and the truth so small and insignificant. — Maria Montessori

Knowledge is an intellectual art.
Wisdom is a spiritual discipline. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Clarity is a sign of intellectual energy. — Phil Cooke

At heart, Pearson is in the intellectual property business, be it through publishing books or the 'Financial Times'. — Marjorie Scardino

Mere mental, that is, intellectual labour, is for the soul and has its own satisfaction. — Mahatma Gandhi

For the intellectual, material comforts are relatively unimportant. — Richard Crossman

Fashion should be fun. It shouldn't be labelled 'intellectual.' — Carolina Herrera

If only everyone could know and live with their inner craziness. Would the world be a worse place for it? No, people would be fairer and happier. — Paulo Coelho

In a distant age and climate, the tragic scene of the death of Hosein will awaken the sympathy of the coldest reader. — Edward Gibbon

Collective Intelligence (CI) is the capacity of human collectives to engage in intellectual cooperation in order to create, innovate, and invent. — Pierre Levy

[To Aquinas] the senses are what we have in common with dumb animals ... Our better part [is] the mind ... and [its] intellectual contemplation. — Anthony John Patrick Kenny

The intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics. — Jay Chiat

I love different themes, different venues, different movies. I love to jump about and tackle different subjects. I have no intellectual master plan. — Ridley Scott

I've seen what rational thought leads to. Dumbest people I ever met were intellectuals. — Robert Ferrigno

When public and private sectors combine intellectual and other resources, more can be achieved. — Gro Harlem Brundtland

You can tell a lot about the intellectual and moral progress of a nation's citizens, by the quality and nature of the films they watch. — Abhijit Naskar

The thing which Reagan did, which was great, was he won the people. He marginalized the media. And that's what you need, an intellectual agility. — Greg Gutfeld

Americans have been selling this view around the world: that progress comes from perfect protection of intellectual property. — Lawrence Lessig

His own mortality held only an intellectual fascination for him, a dry luster; and, having no religion, he did not believe in ghosts. — Eleanor Catton

Consistency in opinion is the slow poison of intellectual life, the destroyer of its vividness and energy. — Humphry Davy

It's fun talking to you ... like walking on the edge of a precipice. At first one's nervous but then courage takes over from somewhere. — Ivan Turgenev

I have seldom heard people engaging in deep intellectual conversations. Most chats are either about mundane life decisions [ ... ] or juicy gossip. — Gad Saad

I tend not to be so attracted to films that force me into an intellectual place over an emotional one. — Lisa Cholodenko

I don't really get into a big intellectual analysis of why I am going to do a certain script or not. — Clint Eastwood

There is as little likelihood of squeezing an adult into the intellectual framework of their childhood as there is into their first pair of pajamas. — Kato Lomb

That they lack, for if their heads had any intellectual armour they could never wear such heavy headpieces — William Shakespeare

Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence. — Ambrose Bierce

There's nothing so passionate as a vested interest disguised as an intellectual conviction. — Sean O'Casey

One thing I don't want around me is a military intellectual. I don't have to worry about you on that score. — Henry A. Kissinger

In companies whose wealth is intellectual capital, networks, rather than hierarchies, are the right organizational design. — Thomas A. Stewart

The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers. — Benjamin Banneker

Simplicity is an intellectual achievement, one of the greatest. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principals to trifles. — George Santayana

When works get too intellectual, they lose their intensity. — Robert Wilson

In the end, there's something of the puritan work ethic about me that roles really must sustain me on an intellectual level. — Damian Lewis

The mediocrity of everything in the great world of today is simply appalling. We live in intellectual slums. — George Santayana

She was no intellectual, but men were scrupulous about avoiding intellectual women unless they had the sense to keep it well hidden. — Margaret Way

Love isn't intellectual - it's visceral. — Kelly McGillis

Leftism hides under an intellectual veneer, but underneath it is all emotion — Dennis Prager

The true traveller is the one urged to move about for physical, aesthetic, intellectual as well as spiritual reasons. — Ella Maillart

Anxiety is the essential condition of intellectual and artistic creation and everything that is finest in human history. — Charles Frankel

History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff well, it might as well be dead. — Arnold J. Toynbee

The teacher who would be true to his mission and accomplish the most good, must give prominence to moral as well as intellectual instruction. — Sheldon Jackson

I try to keep a balance between conceptional or intellectual comprehension and emotional understanding. — Alva Noto

Freedom would mean rest, artistic achievement, the intellectual fulfilment of my being. — Pessoa, Fernando

Your mind can grasp intellectual ideas, but it is in the FEELING where the transformation takes place. — Stephen Richards

Continual intellectual study results in vanity and the false satisfaction of an undigested knowledge. — Paramahansa Yogananda

Many an object is not seen, though it falls within the range of our visual ray, because it does not come within the range of our intellectual ray. — Henry David Thoreau

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. — Mira Sorvino

I spend a lot more time than any person should have to talking with lawyers and thinking about intellectual property issues. — Linus Torvalds

Creeds and castes, and all forms of intellectual and emotional grouping, belong to the past. — Herbert Read

Piensa el sentimiento, siente el pensamiento."
(roughly translated, "Think about the emotional and feel the intellectual") — Miguel De Unamuno

Skepticism means, not intellectual doubt alone, but moral doubt. — Thomas Carlyle

More people are working in jobs that are interactive technology based or find a basis in intellectual property. — Marsha Blackburn

We are critical and skeptical. But when we are absorbed in a story, we drop our intellectual guard. — Jonathan Gottschall

May not men earn their bread by intellectual labor? No, the needs of the body must be supplied by the body. — Mahatma Gandhi

Our inner guidance comes to us through our feelings and body wisdom first
not through intellectual understanding. — Christiane Northrup

We owe to memory not only the increase of our knowledge, and our progress in rational inquiries, but many other intellectual pleasures — Samuel Johnson

Education is not about Intellectual Entertainment..It is about continuous improvement, inside and outside! — Abha Maryada Banerjee

To get people emotionally involved in something intellectual and political is important. — Maggie Gyllenhaal

Tolerance is an admirable intellectual gift; but it is of little worth in politics. — Woodrow Wilson

I find the workload of what I do sufficiently great that when the term of court starts, I undergo a sort of annual intellectual lobotomy. — David Souter

Occasionally, you will be given the chance to be either intellectual or pleasant. Leave being intellectual to others. — Ernie J Zelinski

Most intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the same. — Wilhelm Reich

The superior man is he who develops, in harmonious proportions, his moral, intellectual, and physical nature. — Unknown