Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play. Votes: 4
Immanuel KantIntellectual curiosity drove Einstein to some of the world's most important discoveries. Votes: 3
Gordon GeeIntellectual neutrality is not possible in a historical world of exploitation and oppression. Votes: 3
Elisabeth Schussler FiorenzaIntellectual ''work'' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward. Votes: 3
Mark TwainWithout moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence. Votes: 2
David Ben-GurionNature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction. Votes: 2
E. O. WilsonTo be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life. Votes: 2
Robert Louis StevensonI'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much. Votes: 2
Newt GingrichAn intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows. Votes: 2
Dwight D. EisenhowerAn intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way. Votes: 2
Charles BukowskiKnowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations. Votes: 0
Sigmund FreudUnlike the sun, intellectual luminaries shine brightest after they set. Votes: 0
Charles Caleb ColtonHow could anything non-controversial be of intellectual interest to grown-ups? Votes: 0
Edward AbbeyDisinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization. Votes: 0
G. M. TrevelyanYou cannot steal somebody's intellectual property. Law and justice protect. Votes: 0
Bikram ChoudhuryImprisonment in the contemporary is the worst of all intellectual tyrannies. Votes: 0
Weston La BarreCorporately contrived art product replaces inspired intellectual property with ineffectual poperty. Votes: 0
Vanna BontaPhilosophy, as the modern world knows it, is only intellectual club-swinging. Votes: 0
H. L. MenckenWomen don't require motives that are comprehensible to my intellectual processes. Votes: 0
Rex StoutPat answers to complex problems are the hallmark of intellectual mediocrity Votes: 0
Theodosius DobzhanskyFrom passions grow opinions; intellectual laziness lets these harden into convictions. Votes: 0
Friedrich NietzscheUsing governmental force to impose a vision on others is intellectual sloth. Votes: 0
Ken SchoollandThe intellectual activity of those without power is always characterized as non-intellectual. Votes: 0
Paulo FreireSelf-discipline has a bigger effect on academic performance than does intellectual talent. Votes: 0
Charles DuhiggI'm not sure that pasteurized thinking is rich enough in intellectual vitamins Votes: 0
Keith LaumerObjects are inorganic and biological values; subjects are social and intellectual values. Votes: 0
Robert M. PirsigInability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap. Votes: 0
Alan WattsOne of the great things about songwrighting; it's not an intellectual experience Votes: 0
Keith RichardsTo get people emotionally involved in something intellectual and political is important. Votes: 0
Maggie GyllenhaalPASTIME, n. A device for promoting dejection. Gentle exercise for intellectual debility. Votes: 0
Ambrose BierceIn the end, leadership is not intellectual or cognitive. Leadership is emotional. Votes: 0
Judith M BardwickMystery is an intellectual process... But suspense is essentially an emotional process. Votes: 0
Alfred HitchcockThe rapists of the intellectual world become politicians; the seducers become artists. Votes: 0
Robert Anton WilsonAll teaching and all intellectual learning come about from already existing knowledge. Votes: 0
AristotleI have some intellectual-type pursuits, like studying philosophy and stuff like that. Votes: 0
Van MorrisonQuality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions. Votes: 0
Robert M. PirsigThe means of effective communication are being expropriated from the intellectual worker. Votes: 0
C. Wright MillsGood politicians need not be intellectuals, but they should have intellectual lives. Votes: 0
Gary GuttingMoral cowardice and intellectual corruption are the natural concomitants of unchallenged privilege. Votes: 0
Noam ChomskyBeware the artist who's an intellectual also. The artist who doesn't fit. Votes: 0
F. Scott FitzgeraldHaitians weren't screwed-up, but everything political, intellectual, and material around them is. Votes: 0
P. J. O'RourkeThe history of intellectual progress is written in the lives of infidels. Votes: 0
Robert Green IngersollThe college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness. Votes: 0
Robert M. HutchinsHistory is an indispensable even though not the highest form of intellectual endeavor. Votes: 0
Carl L. BeckerCease from practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words, and following after speech. Votes: 0
DogenThe pointless ferocities of intellectual life shock businessmen, who kill only to eat. Votes: 0
Mason CooleyMy primary goal of hacking was the intellectual curiosity, the seduction of adventure. Votes: 0
Kevin MitnickAn expenditure of words without income of ideas will lead to intellectual bankruptcy. Votes: 0
Ravi ZachariasScience as an intellectual exercise enriches our culture, and is in itself ennobling. Votes: 0
Henry TaubeTo answer brutality with brutality is to admit one's moral and intellectual bankruptcy. Votes: 0
Mahatma GandhiOne must treat theory-in-use as both a psychological certainty and an intellectual hypothesis. Votes: 0
Chris ArgyrisConfucianism is all about tempering your instincts with intellectual discipline, with book learning. Votes: 0
Brian ReynoldsOne of the things that characterizes good intellectual work is a certain self-importance Votes: 0
Whitfield DiffieNever confuse faith, or belief"of any kind"with something even remotely intellectual. Votes: 0
John IrvingConfucianism is all about tempering your instincts with intellectual discipline, with book learning. Votes: 0
Brian Reynolds MyersOne of the things that characterizes good intellectual work is a certain self-importance. Votes: 0
Whitfield DiffieThe underlying intellectual argument for seeking to tax economic rents retains its force. Votes: 0
Mervyn KingJohn Connally's conversion to the GOP raised the intellectual level of both parties. Votes: 0
Frank MankiewiczGeorge Bush's political, intellectual and other shortcomings cannot be restricted to one sentence. Votes: 0
Emilio BotinReading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual. Votes: 0
Jorge Luis BorgesThere's nothing so passionate as a vested interest disguised as an intellectual conviction. Votes: 0
Sean O'CaseyTED was simply wonderful, an intellectual spa, a 21st-century Chataqua, superb and singular. Votes: 0
Kurt AndersenThe best acting is instinctive. It's not intellectual, it's not mechanical, it's instinctive. Votes: 0
Craig MacDonaldReading . . . is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual. Votes: 0
Jorge Luis BorgesThe general intellectual level of South Florida is somewhere just above "functionally retarded". Votes: 0
Tucker MaxThere are many non-intellectual countries; Australia is one of the few anti-intellectual ones. Votes: 0
George MikesTo be a really good historian is perhaps the rarest of intellectual distinctions. Votes: 0
Thomas B. MacaulayYou don't get to be a respected intellectual by uttering truisms in monosyllables. Votes: 0
Noam ChomskyIn the Sanghi family, there is no one who has undertaken intellectual pursuits. Votes: 0
Ashwin SanghiAn intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind. Votes: 0
B.K.S. IyengarI'm old-fashioned, a storyteller. I'm not an analyst and I'm not an intellectual. Votes: 0
John IrvingI am a strong believer that intellectual property rights need to be protected. Votes: 0
Jim OberweisFreedom in intellectual work is found to be the basis of internal discipline. Votes: 0
Maria MontessoriEducation is acquisition of intellectual knowledge to be what we ought to be. Votes: 0
Lailah Gifty AkitaThe "Creed of Christendom" is alien to my nature, both emotional and intellectual. Votes: 0
Herbert SpencerChristianity is the greatest intellectual system the mind of man has ever touched. Votes: 0
Francis SchaefferAn intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex. Votes: 0
Aldous HuxleyFind enjoyment and take pride in the intellectual pursuit of realizing your dreams. Votes: 0
Ken PoirotThe Philadelphia Museum of Art is a house of artistic and intellectual prostitution Votes: 0
Albert C. BarnesOne of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute. Votes: 0
William Lyon PhelpsThe experience of history exalts and enlarges the horizon of our intellectual view. Votes: 0
Trevor RoperI have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty. Votes: 0
Claude Levi-StraussCritics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart. Votes: 0
Erica JongWhen public and private sectors combine intellectual and other resources, more can be achieved. Votes: 0
Gro Harlem BrundtlandI have always disliked the fierce competitive spirit embodied in that highly intellectual game. Votes: 0
Albert EinsteinI like clothes that stimulate the senses, fashion that is both exquisite and intellectual. Votes: 0
Elizabeth HeyertI find it extraordinary that anyone would have an intellectual conversion to Roman Catholicism. Votes: 0
Peter SingerDon't believe those lies about intellectual people. They're only written to soothe the majority. Votes: 0
E. M. ForsterThe study of mathematics is the indispensable basis for all intellectual and spiritual progress. Votes: 0
Francis CornfordThe main symptom of falling in love is that you lose your intellectual prowess. Votes: 0
Fran LebowitzI'm not known for my intellectual range and tricks have been played on me. Votes: 0
William SandersonI don't want to pretend like I'm some intellectual person who understands Flannery O'Connor. Votes: 0
Sara ZarrBoston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principals to trifles. Votes: 0
George SantayanaWhat students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher. Votes: 0
William GlasserYou want diversity in any intellectual organization. I mean, that's how good ideas arise. Votes: 0
Louis MenandTolerance is an admirable intellectual gift; but it is of little worth in politics. Votes: 0
Woodrow WilsonWhile I'm impressed with the length of those legs, she's not an intellectual giant. Votes: 0
Thomas DolbyVeneration of Mark Twain is one of the roots of our current intellectual stalemate. Votes: 0
John Kennedy TooleAmong intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events. Votes: 0
SallustI'm fond of observing how obsession is the most durable form of intellectual capital. Votes: 0
Eve Kosofsky SedgwickAn intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex. Votes: 0
Aldous HuxleyThe avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward. Votes: 0
John Maynard KeynesI think, therefore I am' is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches. Votes: 0
Milan KunderaI may turn out an intellectual, but I'll never write anything but mediocre poetry. Votes: 0
F. Scott FitzgeraldMy great project is to undo the moral and intellectual damage of most universities Votes: 0
Dennis PragerAds represent the main channel of intellectual and artistic effort in the modern world. Votes: 0
Marshall McLuhanI think the freedom to express one's views is more important than intellectual property. Votes: 0
Shepard FaireyThe moral and intellectual character of the Africans is widely different in different nations. Votes: 0
Samuel George MortonUpon the one thing every writer absolutely must have, and that is intellectual curiosity. Votes: 0
Philip AthansMake no mistake about it: Law school is not a bastion of intellectual discourse. Votes: 0
Tucker MaxWhen public and private sectors combine intellectual and other resources, more can be achieved Votes: 0
Gro Harlem BrundtlandAt a certain age some people's minds close up; they live on their intellectual fat. Votes: 0
William Lyon PhelpsWithin the confines of the lecture hall, no other virtue exists but plain intellectual integrity. Votes: 0
Max WeberThe more intellectual you are, the more egoistic you are, and surrendering becomes more difficult. Votes: 0
Mata AmritanandamayiPeople may talk about intellectual teaching, but what we principally want is the moral teaching. Votes: 0
Thomas HuxleyCompassion is not feeling sorry for others. It's not soft. It requires an intellectual effort. Votes: 0
Karen ArmstrongI come from a very la-ti-da East Coast intellectual family - or so they think. Votes: 0
Alexandra WentworthYou must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that. Votes: 0
George OrwellTo be an intellectual really means to speak a truth that allows suffering to speak. Votes: 0
Cornel WestIn the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits. Votes: 0
Robert HallI approached the bulk of my schoolwork as a chore rather than an intellectual adventure. Votes: 0
Steven ChuBlind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime. Votes: 0
Imre LakatosMere mental, that is, intellectual labour, is for the soul and has its own satisfaction. Votes: 0
Mahatma GandhiMost of the intellectual elite of the USA completely disavow the idea of absolute truth. Votes: 0
Ravi ZachariasMost intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the same. Votes: 0
Wilhelm ReichI too had thoughts once of being an intellectual, but I found it too difficult. Votes: 0
Albert SchweitzerIt's not highly intellectual material. I'm dedicating it to the pulp fiction of the past. Votes: 0
Bruce BoxleitnerI'm an intellectual, but I've always had jobs that required physical labor above all else. Votes: 0
Niall MatterLotte Lenya was all emotion. She wasn't anything but emotion. She was not an intellectual. Votes: 0
John HurtThe intellectual power, through words and things, Went sounding on a dim and perilous way! Votes: 0
William WordsworthChristianity is not a purely intellectual, internal faith. It can only be lived in community. Votes: 0
Philip YanceyCreeds and castes, and all forms of intellectual and emotional grouping, belong to the past. Votes: 0
Herbert ReadWe may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields. Votes: 0
Alan TuringWhat's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other. Votes: 0
Manuel PuigEvery man who expresses an honest thought is a soldier in the army of intellectual liberty. Votes: 0
Robert Green Ingersollno subject of study is more important than reading"¦all other intellectual powers depend on it. Votes: 0
Jacques BarzunBaseball is the most intellectual game because most of the action goes on in your head. Votes: 0
Henry A. KissingerMy work is never intellectual. I never make a negative unless emotionally moved by my subject. Votes: 0
Edward WestonThe task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes. Votes: 0
Arthur MillerThere is a vast difference between intellectual belief and the total conversion that saves the soul. Votes: 0
Billy GrahamWe live in what may be the most anti-intellectual period in the history of Western civilization. Votes: 0
R. C. SproulAnd amongst us one, Who most has suffer'd, takes dejectedly His seat upon the intellectual throne. Votes: 0
Matthew ArnoldWhat is addressed to us for contemplation does not threaten us, but makes us intellectual beings. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonLinux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches. Votes: 0
Steve BallmerIt's not the most intellectual job in the world, but I do have to know the letters. Votes: 0
Vanna WhiteThe demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. Votes: 0
Bertrand RussellFor each of us there is a set limit to our intellectual powers which we cannot pass. Votes: 0
Rene DescartesI must feel the fire of my soul so my intellectual blues can set others on fire. Votes: 0
Cornel WestI am thoroughly sick of pearls. They make one look so plain, so good and so intellectual. Votes: 0
Oscar WildeI never had an intellectual struggle with the Bible, with the gospel, with the claims of Christ. Votes: 0
Tullian TchividjianMy dad was more, "Let's play chess. Read a book, you're stupid." He's more the intellectual type. Votes: 0
Michelle RodriguezPlato's concern is not just an intellectual issue, but it is knitted with emotional life as well. Votes: 0
Rebecca GoldsteinWit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out. Votes: 0
Ambrose BierceThe decision to speak out is the vocation and lifelong peril by which the intellectual must live. Votes: 0
Kay BoyleAll honor to the noble women that have devoted earnest lives to the intellectual needs of mankind! Votes: 0
Elizabeth Cady StantonStyle supposes the reunion and the exercise of all the intellectual faculties. The style is the man. Votes: 0
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de BuffonFor me, the ultimate form of expression is blues, where jazz appeals to me on an intellectual level. Votes: 0
Scott HendersonAn intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell you more than he knows. Votes: 0
Dwight D. EisenhowerA book should have an intellectual shape and a heft that comes with dealing with a primary subject. Votes: 0
William SafireThere is a lot lacking on the intellectual side and on the values side when being an actor. Votes: 0
Natalie PortmanWe are critical and skeptical. But when we are absorbed in a story, we drop our intellectual guard. Votes: 0
Jonathan GottschallWe must make the building of a free society once more an intellectual adventure, a deed of courage. Votes: 0
Friedrich August von HayekWhat we now call 'finance' is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love. Votes: 0
Robert GravesWhat we now call "finance" is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love. Votes: 0
Robert GravesI have spent a good part of my life showing what an intellectual bubble the Left lives in. Votes: 0
Dennis PragerI was anti-intellectual to the nth. Basically I liked to dance and paint, and that was about it. Votes: 0
Joni MitchellWe really want to see how the idea of an intellectual action movie is received by the world. Votes: 0
Lana WachowskiI'd have liked to have been a bit more intellectual. I'd have liked to have had more brains. Votes: 0
Terry WoganThe colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers. Votes: 0
Benjamin BannekerMicrosoft is a big intellectual roach motel. All the big minds go in, and they don't come out. Votes: 0
Paul SaffoI try to be feminine, yet intellectual and smart at the same time. You don't see enough of that Votes: 0
Portia de RossiTo be 'in the will of God' is not a matter of intellectual discernment, but a state of heart. Votes: 0
Oswald ChambersThere is no intellectual road to God...No, we need God to wake us up to our need of a Savior. Votes: 0
Alistair BeggI don't really get into a big intellectual analysis of why I am going to do a certain script or not. Votes: 0
Clint Eastwood