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Intellectual Quotes

Egghead marries hourglass

– New York Times

Headline on wedding of Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe in 1958.

I do have a peripatetic and active intellectual curiosity.

– Guy Kawasaki

Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice.

– George Gissing

I’m not a twentieth-century novelist, I’m not modern, and certainly not postmodern. I follow the form of the nineteenth-century novel; that was the century that produced the models of the form. I’m old-fashioned, a storyteller. I’m not an analyst, and I’m not an intellectual.

– John Irving

We’re always looking for ways to extend all of our intellectual property. We’ve seen that’s what happened with ‘Harry Potter’ and ‘The Lord of the Rings.’

– Jon Feltheimer

To me, being an intellectual doesn’t mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.

– Jacob Bronowski

Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.

– John Dewey

I say that I represent this movement because my intellectual allegiances are clearly European, not African.

– J. M. Coetzee

I’m not like a high intellectual.

– Billy West

I was not naturally intellectual, but somebody whose interest had to be whetted, still the case sadly.

– Jeremy Irons

We have a duty as the state to protect our economy… We are for the protection of intellectual property.

– Angela Merkel

Jesuits encourage an intellectual rigor in a way that I like.

– Alexander Payne

It’s usually only the intellectual ones who understand what’s going on in what I do.

– Alexander McQueen

A toy is seen both as a bauble and as an intellectual machine.

– Brian Sutton-Smith

The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other.

– Albert Camus

I come from a very la-ti-da East Coast intellectual family – or so they think.

– Alexandra Wentworth

It’s not highly intellectual material. I’m dedicating it to the pulp fiction of the past.

– Bruce Boxleitner

I like intellectual journeys.

– Christopher Meloni

In the Sanghi family, there is no one who has undertaken intellectual pursuits.

– Ashwin Sanghi

Both Brutus and Hamlet are highly intellectual by nature and reflective by habit. Both may even be called, in a popular sense, philosophic; Brutus may be called so in a stricter sense.

– Andrew Coyle Bradley

It does not just happen. It is disclosed by science that practically one-half of trained intellectual resources are being mobilized for murderous purposes.

– Alva Myrdal

The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.

– Bertrand Russell

In fact, there is clear evidence of black intellectual superiority: in 1984, 92 percent of blacks voted to retire Ronald Reagan, compared to only 36 percent of whites.

– Barbara Ehrenreich

I would like to attribute my range of interests to being an independent intellectual, but although I’m independent, I’m not sure I qualify as an intellectual. Basically, I’m an old-fashioned amateur.

– Anne Fadiman

We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.

– Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.

– Bill Gates

I’m an intellectual.

– Alexei Sayle

I don’t really get into a big intellectual analysis of why I am going to do a certain script or not.

– Clint Eastwood

I’m a fake intellectual.

– Adam Brody

I’m a private intellectual, not a public one.

– Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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