Famous Quotes - Tags - Intellectuals

  • ... friendship ... is essential to intellectuals. You can date the evolving life of a mind, like... More
  • ... it is seldom a medical man has true religious views—there is too much pride of intellect. More
  • ... liberal intellectuals ... tend to have a classical theory of politics, in which the state has... More
  • ...I didn’t consider intellectuals intelligent, I never liked them or their thoughts about... More
  • A man of intellect is like an artist who gives a concert without any help from anyone else,... More
  • A man of thought must feel the thought that is parent of the universe: that the masses of nature... More
  • A scholar does not wish to be always pumping his brains; he wants gossips. More
  • A Scholar is a candle which the love & desire of men will light. Let it not lie in a dark box. More
  • A scholar is a candle which the love and desire of all men will light. More
  • A scholar without going outside his door can know all the affairs of the world. More
  • A self-denial, no less austere than the saint’s, is demanded of the scholar. He must worship... More
  • Action is with the scholar subordinate, but it is essential. Without it, he is not yet man.... More
  • Among the multitude of scholars and authors, we feel no hallowing presence; we are sensible of a... More
  • At the outstart of discussions of women’s intellectual attainments, it is well to remember how... More
  • Before the birth of the New Woman the country was not an intellectual desert, as she is apt to... More
  • Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk. More
  • Books are for the scholar’s idle times. When he can read God directly, the hour is too precious... More
  • But what help from these fineries or pedantries? What help from thought? Life is not dialectics.... More
  • Expediency of literature, reason of literature, lawfulness of writing down a thought, is... More
  • Have you ever turned toward an intellectual in a time of authentic anguish and encountered his... More
  • How much more the seeker of abstract truth, who needs periods of isolation, and rapt... More
  • I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is... More
  • I have always suspected that too much knowledge is a dangerous thing. It is a boon to people who... More
  • I was always a feminist, for I liked intellectual revolt as much as I disliked physical violence.... More
  • I was the intellectual equivalent of a 98-pound weakling. I would go to the beach and people... More
  • I went to a literary gathering once.... The place was filled with people who looked as if they... More
  • I wish glib and indiscriminate critics of industrialists had some conception of the problems that... More
  • In literary circles, the men of trust and consideration, bookmakers, editors, university deans... More
  • In talking with scholars, I observe that they lost on ruder companions those years of boyhood... More
  • In the combined names of Social Intercourse, Meeting Interesting People, and Getting Out of a... More
  • In the most worn, pedantic, introverted self-tormenter’s life, the greatest part is... More
  • In this distribution of functions, the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state, he... More
  • Inaction is cowardice, but there can be no scholar without the heroic mind. More
  • Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity. If a man should consider the... More
  • Intellectuals are too sentimental for me. More
  • INTELLECTUALS DO NOT HAVE AESTHETIC EXPERIENCES. More
  • I’m a schoolteacher. That’s even worse than being an intellectual. Schoolteachers are not... More
  • Let ideas establish their legitimate sway again in society, let life be fair and poetic, and the... More
  • Life is not intellectual or critical, but sturdy. Its chief good is for well-mixed people who can... More
  • Louise, something in me tightens when an American intellectual’s eyes shine, and they start to... More
  • Neither years nor books have yet availed to extirpate a prejudice then rooted in me, that a... More
  • No, you think too much, that is your trouble. Clever people and grocers, they weigh everything. More
  • Nothing ... is so ungrateful as a rising generation; yet, if there is any faintest glimmer of... More
  • People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if... More
  • People Who Do things exceed my endurance;
    God, for a man that solicits insurance! More
  • Perhaps I stand now on the eve of a new life, shall watch the sun rise and disappear behind a... More
  • Scholars planning a rebellion could never succeed even in three years. More
  • Some men tend to cling to old intellectual excitements, just as some belles, when they are old... More
  • That I am a poet in an age where the “unintellectual” (i.e., almost everybody) think of... More
  • The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human... More
  • The genius of the Platonists, is intoxicating to the student, yet how few particulars of it can I... More
  • The humanity of famous intellectuals lies in being wrong with gracious courtesy when dealing with... More
  • The intellectual life may be kept clean and healthful, if man will live the life of nature, and... More
  • The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged... More
  • The learned and the studious of thought have no monopoly of wisdom. Their violence of direction... More
  • The literary wiseacres prognosticate in many languages, as they have throughout so many... More
  • The pointless ferocities of intellectual life shock businessmen, who kill only to eat. More
  • The scholar is that man who must take up into himself all the ability of the time, all the... More
  • The scholar may lose himself in schools, in words, and become a pedant; but when he comprehends... More
  • The scholar was not raised by the sacred thoughts amongst which he dwelt, but used them to... More
  • The society of the energetic class, in their friendly and festive meetings, is full of courage,... More
  • The solitary knows the essence of the thought, the scholar in society only its fair face. More
  • The studious class are their own victims: they are thin and pale, their feet are cold, their... More
  • They lay on the broad couch, sat on the floor about the room or occupied the chairs, as pleased... More
  • This Ennui, for which we Saxons had no name, this word of France has got a terrific significance.... More
  • This hard work will always be done by one kind of man; not by scheming speculators, nor by... More
  • To the men of this world, to the animal strength and spirits, to the men of practical power,... More
  • Unrecognized alcoholism is the ruling pathology among writers and intellectuals. More
  • We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the, the pistol of common sense. More
  • We hear eagerly every thought and word quoted from an intellectual man. But in his presence our... More
  • What happiness did poor Mother’s studies bring her? It is the melancholy tendency of such... More
  • What is addressed to us for contemplation does not threaten us, but makes us intellectual beings. More
  • When the literary class betray a destitution of faith, it is not strange that society should be... More
  • Who knows but we may count among our intellectual chickens
    Like them an Earl of Thackeray and... More
  • Yet, if the pupil be of a texture to bear it, the best university that can be recommended to a... More
  • “You, that have not lived in thought but deed,
    Can have the purity of a natural... More

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