Intellectual Quotes

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Vladimir Lenin

Spiro Agnew

Matthew Arnold

Steve Ballmer

Jacques Barzun

Georges Bataille

Tim Berners-Lee

If Socialism can only be realized when the intellectual development of all the people permits it, then we shall not see Socialism for at least five hundred years.

Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat.

Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information.

Kingman Brewster, Jr.

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose—a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

The more a man thinks the better adapted he becomes to thinking, and education is nothing if it is not the methodical creation of the habit of thinking. Precisely. Theoretically, education is a mental training aiming at greater intellectual elasticity, but the question is whether education does not often strain, instead of train, a mind.

Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence.... It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.

Georges Bataille

Linux is not in the public domain. Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches. That's the way that the license works.

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

Intellectual property is an important legal and cultural issue. Society as a whole has complex issues to face here: private ownership vs. open source, and so on.

Tim Berners-Lee

The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement.

Anna Garlin Spencer

For centuries knowledge meant proven knowledge... Einstein's results again turned the tables and now very few philosophers or scientists still think that scientific knowledge is, or can be, proven knowledge. But few realize that with this the whole classical structure of intellectual values falls in ruins and has to be replaced.

Pakistan is heir to an intellectual tradition of which the illustrious exponent was the poet and philosopher Mohammad Iqbal. He saw the future course for Islamic societies in a synthesis between adherence to the faith and adjustment to the modern age.

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of historians; much more than that it does not expect, nor often get.

Samuel Eliot Morison

Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.

Robert M. Pirsig

I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life-blood of real civilization.

G. M. Trevelyan

Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values; that is to say, their own ideas and other people's values.

Greed probably figures in my intellectual life as well, as I attempt to absorb a massive amount of information with consequent mental indigestion.

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

Cynicism is intellectual dandyism without the coxcomb's feathers.

George Meredith

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

Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love.

The intellect is a cold thing and a merely intellectual idea will never stimulate thought in the same manner that a spiritual idea does.

What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.