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Intellectual talent will give us the upper-hand in the game of life. Fortunately, we all can develop it — Julian Pencilliah

I have spent a good part of my life showing what an intellectual bubble the Left lives in. — Dennis Prager

It is only men who are free, who create the inventions and intellectual works which to us moderns make life worth while. — Albert Einstein

Research must continue to be the centerpiece of intellectual life, and our commitment to research must grow, because our problems are growing. — Ernest L. Boyer

Is there intellectual life in America? At present, the answer is no. — Camille Paglia

And what, then, is belief? It is the demi-cadence which closes a musical phrase in the symphony of our intellectual life. — Charles Sanders Peirce

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

His persona seemed very odd to me: it was as though he'd once seen an intellectual, and had spent the rest of his life impersonating him. — John Cleese

One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute. — William Lyon Phelps

An intellectual is a person who acquired the knowledge and knows where and how to use it. — Debasish Mridha

The reading eye must do the work to make them live, and so it did, again and again, never the same life twice, as the artist had intended. — A.S. Byatt

The man who satisfies a ceaseless intellectual curiousity probably squeezes more out of life in the long run than anyone else. — Edmund Gosse

Dartmouth is the place I've devoted my life to, so it's very sad to see this kind of decline in the intellectual strength of the institution. — Jon Appleton

Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization. — G. M. Trevelyan

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ninety percent of the difficulty in your intellectual life would never have happened if you just had better taste. — Terence McKenna

The wisdom of thought beyond barriers is life changing. — Teresa Lakier

Intellectual life requires for its expansion and manifestation the influences and assimilation of the interests and affections of others. — Jane Addams

Literature is a comprehensive essence of the intellectual life of a nation. — William Shakespeare

The joys of theory are the sweetest intellectual pleasures of life — Ludwig Feuerbach

Plain intellectual thinking is the peak of ignorance because all that you will know is to play with a few aspects and make others look like fools. — Jaggi Vasudev

One of the wonderful things about Internet is it's like a salon. It brings people together from different intellectual walks of life. — Eric Kandel

My father was a classic intellectual. From him I learned devotion, and I also learned about the life of the mind. — Brian Dennehy

The life of a visual communicator should be one of systematic and exciting intellectual chaos. — Alberto Cairo

The art of life lies in taking pleasures as they pass, and the keenest pleasures are not intellectual, nor are they always moral. — Aristippus

The secret of life is to be found in life itself, in the full organic, intellectual and spiritual activities of our body. — Alexis Carrel

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

Life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his senses can afford. — Samuel Johnson

Intellectual discussion, after all, is the real joy of the winter of life, when other pleasures have flown, as it were. — John Barth

The truth is that most people lack the intellectual ability and courage to resist a popular movement, however pernicious and ill-considered. — Ludwig Von Mises

The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

The heart symbolizes the center of our moral, spiritual, and intellectual life. It is the seat of our conscience and life. — Billy Graham

I think ideas only lead to change for intellectual people; and not even them. What really leads to change is experience. Life itself is the teacher. — Rachel Naomi Remen

The action required to sustain human life is primarily intellectual; everything man needs has to be discovered by his mind and produced by his effort. — Ayn Rand

We hold from God the gift which, as far as we are concerned, contains all others, Life - physical, intellectual, and moral life. — Frederic Bastiat

At its heart, all intellectual and emotional life is a conversation, and the conversation begins at birth. — Susan Jacoby

The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina. — Pat Conroy

The pointless ferocities of intellectual life shock businessmen, who kill only to eat. — Mason Cooley

There will always be those little minds who, out of vanity or intellectual display, will attempt to destroy faith in the very foundations of life. — Ezra Taft Benson

Human learning presupposes a specific social nature and a process by which children grow into the intellectual life of those around them — Lev S. Vygotsky

Knowledge is very vital in life's transformation and transition — Jaachynma N.E. Agu

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana. — Bill Gates

What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life. — Thomas Mann

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