Belonging to, or performed by, the intellect; mental; as, intellectualpowers, activities, etc.
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Endowed with intellect; having the power of understanding; having
capacity for the higher forms of knowledge or thought; characterized
by intelligence or mental capacity; as, an intellectual person.
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Suitable for exercising the intellect; formed by, and existing for,
the intellect alone; perceived by the intellect; as, intellectual
employments.
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Relating to the understanding; treating of the mind; as, intellectual
philosophy, sometimes called "mental" philosophy.
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The intellect or understanding; mental powers or faculties.
ntellectual Quotes Quotations Quote of the Day Members Quote books
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Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.
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An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself (Carnets)
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Great sport has intellectual beauty.
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It doesn't stand up to huge intellectual scrutiny.
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Intellectual passion dries out sensuality.
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An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more
interesting than sex.
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Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
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Tennis doesn't encourage any kind of intellectual development.
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In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the
intellectual habits
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George Bush's political, intellectual and other shortcomings cannot be
restricted to one sentence.
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The self-styled intellectual who is impotent with pen and ink hungers
to write history with sword and blood.
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Life at university, with its intellectual and inconclusive discussions
at a postgraduate level is on the whole a bad training.
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There is a kind of intellectual provincialism in the dogma that 'life
is just one damned thing after another.' Human affairs do not become
intelligible until they are seen as a whole.
View quotes by Arnold Toynbee
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The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself
most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater.
View quotes by Robertson Davies
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Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life-blood of real
civilisation (English Social History)
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Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness,
right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players.
View quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the
fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a
worldwide depression all by myself.
View quotes by Herbert Hoover
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The fundamentalists, by 'knowing' the answers before they start, and
then forcing nature into the straitjacket of their discredited
preconceptions, lie outside the domain of science-or of any honest
intellectual inquiry.
View quotes by Stephen Jay Gould
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Gossip is the tool of the poet, the shoptalk of the scientist and the
consolation of the housewife, wit, tycoon and intellectual. It begins
in the nursery and ends when speech is past.
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“To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world,
the most difficult and the most intellectual”
Oscar Wilde quotes (Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, 1854 -1900)
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“The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his
intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can
do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.”
Mark Twain quotes (American Humorist, Writer and Lecturer. 1835-1910)
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“What is mind but motion in the intellectual sphere?”
Oscar Wilde quotes (Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, 1854 -1900)
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“Intellectual ''work'' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a
dissipation, and is its own highest reward.”
Mark Twain quotes (American Humorist, Writer and Lecturer. 1835-1910)
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“An intellectual is a person whose mind watches itself”
Albert Camus quotes (French Novelist, Essayist and Playwright, 1957
Nobel Prize for Literature, 1913-1960)
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“To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things
eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal.”
Saint Augustine quotes (Ancient Roman Christian Theologian and Bishop
of Hippo from 396 to 430. One of the Latin Fathers of the Church. 354 -430)
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“The intellectual advancement of man depends on how often he can
exchange an old superstition for a new truth”
Robert Green Ingersoll quotes (American Statesman and Orator, noted for
his broad range of culture and his defense of atheism. 1833-1899)
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“The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition
of facts but learning how to make facts live.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes quotes (American Physician, Poet, Writer,
Humorist and Professor at Harvard, 1809-1894)
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“By religion I mean a set of beliefs held as dogmas, dominating
the conduct of life, going beyond or contrary to evidence, and
inculcated by methods which are emotional or authoritarian, not
intellectual”
Bertrand Russell quotes (English Logician and Philosopher 1872-1970)
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“An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more
interesting than sex.”
Aldous Huxley quotes (English Novelist and Critic, 1894-1963)
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“The action required to sustain human life is primarily
intellectual: everything man needs has to be discovered by his mind
and produced by his effort”
Ayn Rand quotes (Russian born American Writer and Novelist, 1905- 1982)
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“I've never been an intellectual but I have this look.”
Woody Allen quotes (American Actor, Author, Screenwriter and Film
Director, b.1935)
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“The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats
nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for
hate, to include the excluded, and to say, "I was wrong".”
Sydney J. Harris quotes (American Journalist and Author, He wrote a
syndicated column, Strictly Personal, from 1944-86. 1917-1986)
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“My pacifism is an instinctive feeling, a feeling that possesses
me because the murder of men is disgusting. My attitude is not derived
from any intellectual theory but is based on my deepest antipathy to
every kind of cruelty and hatred.”
Albert Einstein quotes
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“Intellectual passion drives out sensuality”
Leonardo da Vinci quotes (Italian draftsman, Painter, Sculptor,
Architect and Engineer whose genius epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal. 1452-1519)
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“An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.”
Albert Camus quotes (French Novelist, Essayist and Playwright, 1957
Nobel Prize for Literature, 1913-1960)
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“It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual
health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals
unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and
abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes
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“The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is
nevertheless an intellectual vice”
Bertrand Russell quotes (English Logician and Philosopher 1872-1970)
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“I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of
intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to
educate America. They couldn't educate America if they started at 6:30.”
Groucho Marx quotes (American Comedian, Actor and Singer, 1890-1977)
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“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at
death”
Albert Einstein quotes
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“Anxiety is the essential condition of intellectual and artistic
creation”
Charles Frankel quotes
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“No man, who continues to add something to the material,
intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is
left long without proper reward.”
Booker T. Washington quotes
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“God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of
intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.”
Joseph Campbell quotes Similar Quotes. About: God quotes.
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“Play reaches the habits most needed for intellectual growth”
Bruno Bettelheim quotes
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“Love and respect woman. Look to her not only for comfort, but
for strength and inspiration and the doubling of your intellectual and
moral powers. Blot out from your mind any idea of superiority; you
have none.”
Giuseppe Mazzini quotes
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“Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness
that some things are really important, others not; and that
the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.”
Christopher Morley quotes
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“Feel like Christ and you will be a Christ; feel like Buddha and
you will be a Buddha. It is feeling that is the life, the strength,
the vitality, without which no amount of intellectual activity can
reach God.”
Swami Vivekananda quotes
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“Christianity is the greatest intellectual system the mind of
man has ever touched”
Francis Schaeffer quotes
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“I consider it important, indeed urgently necessary, for
intellectual workers to get together, both to protect their own
economic status and, also, generally speaking, to secure their
influence in the political field.”
Albert Einstein quotes
