Intellectual Quotes (16 Quotes)
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1. Alice James ‘s quote about Intellectual. One has a greater sense…
Quotes by Alice James : “One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.” -
2. Francois de La Rochefoucauld ‘s quote about . Intellectual blemishes, like facial ones,…
Quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld : “Intellectual blemishes, like facial ones, grow more prominent with age.” -
3. Charles Bukowski ‘s quote about . An intellectual says a simple…
“An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.”
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4. Disinterested intellectual curiosity
“Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization. ”
by G. M. Trevelyan -
5. An intellectual snob
Quotes by Dan Rather : “An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger. ” -
6. Robert M. Hutchins ‘s quote about . The college graduate is presented…
“The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.”
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7. E. O. Wilson ‘s quote about . Nature holds the key to…
Quotes by E. O. Wilson : “Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.” -
8. Herbert Hoover ‘s quote about . nce upon a time my…
Quotes by Herbert Hoover : “nce upon a time my opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.” -
9. David Pratt ‘s quote about Jargon. Jargon allows us to camouflage…
Quotes by David Pratt : “Jargon allows us to camouflage intellectual poverty with verbal extravagance.” -
10. Robert Hall ‘s quote about . In the power of fixing…
Quotes by Robert Hall : “In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits.” -
11. Immanuel Kant ‘s quote about . Experience without theory is blind,…
Quotes by Immanuel Kant : “Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.” -
12. All generous minds
“All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called Facts. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain. ”
by Thomas Hobbes -
13. …in song the
“...in song the words tend to lose their significance, do often lose it, while at the other extreme, in current prose it is the musical value that tends to disappear - so that verse stands symmetrically, as it were, between song, on the one hand, and prose on the other - and is thus admirably and delicately balanced between the sensual and the intellectual power of language. ”
by Paul Valery -
14. Music, verily, is
“Music, verily, is the mediator between intellectual and sensuous life... the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend. ”
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15. The bitterest tragic
“The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny. ”
by Ralph Waldo Emerson -
16. Science would be
Quotes by Benoit Mandelbrot : “Science would be ruined if (like sports) it were to put competition above everything else, and if it were to clarify the rules of competition by withdrawing entirely into narrowly defined specialties. The rare scholars who are nomads-by-choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines. ”
