The habit of intellectual principles without reasons is called faith.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.
Aldous Huxley
We were lucky enough to grow up in an environment where there was always much encouragement to children to pursue intellectual interests; to investigate what ever aroused curiosity.
Orville Wright
Intellectual passion dries out sensuality.
Leonardo da Vinci
Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat.
Mary Renault
An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
Charles Bukowski
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
Immanuel Kant
Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life-blood of real civilization.
George Macaulay Trevelyan
Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.
Robert M. Pirsig
All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called 'Facts'. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.
Thomas Hobbes
[Law is] vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic concept.
Robert H. Bork
There are big men, men of intellect, intellectual men, men of talent and men of action; but the great man is difficult to find, and it needs /apart from discernment /a certain greatness to find him.
Margot Asquith
Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.
G. M. Trevelyan
In some cases resources are financial; in other cases, resources can be intellectual capital.
Deborah Hechinger
One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.
Alice James
After their meeting, they joined their intellectual forces and she helped him a lot in his decisions, judgments, speeches and so on.
Bernard Landry
Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.
George Meredith
Judaism is everything ? it's emotional, intellectual, metaphysical. Here I was looking for all these things and it was in my own backyard.
Lieba Schwartz
That's something that's sometimes missing from academia, that kind of an idea of an intellectual - someone who is literally in love with ideas.
James Cianciola
To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
Dick Cavett
Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence.
David Ben gurion
How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be ''American'' before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened, being humane, and having the same intellectual discipline as other civilized countries?
Edith Wharton
The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward.
John Maynard Keynes
If you're expecting an intellectual film, then you will be disappointed.
Barry Pepper
I was about mobility and intellectual freedom. Traveling to Canada was where my activist spirit came about.
Horace Campbell
We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
They bring tremendous intellectual capital.
Mike Webster
The company vigorously defends its intellectual property because it is the lifeblood of our research and development.
John Skalko
All you have have to do is watch the commercials. It's clearly an unfair use of our creative and intellectual property.
Larry Schwartz
What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.
Raymond Aron
Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second.
Maurice Ravel
The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are real questions about her, about whether she has the intellectual gifts needed for the court.
John Fortier
The university is a place for intellectual discussion. That's why works we disagree with should be performed, read and discussed.
Peter Holland
Do you really have to be the ice queen intellectual or the slut whore? Isn't there some way to be both?
Susan Sarandon
An intellectual is someone who avoids the mundane by lowering his handicap.
Richard Reeves
I thought it was a tragedy. Arts programs are so important to intellectual and emotional development.
Katie Gardner
It was the intellectual elite of the conservative movement that expressed the most concern, not the religious conservatives or the business conservatives.
Carl W. Tobias
We are putting our most valuable intellectual property on the table.
Brad Smith
To me, he is a representative of what we are trying to accomplish, namely, to have a very close intellectual association with China.
Hunter Rawlings
We don't really know who the intellectual author was.
Charles Powell
Tennis doesn't encourage any kind of intellectual development.
Jim Courier
We're the intellectual center of the U.S. Army. It puts soldiers on the path for their career.
John Towers
I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.
Nathaniel Emmons
Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition.
Stephen Jay Gould
Mad, adj: Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
Ambrose Bierce
WIT, n. The salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.
Ambrose Bierce
When you have the small companies without the aid of expert advice on intellectual property interests, then they get confused and they go awry, ... a very small fish.
Beverly Williams
The new economy places a lot of value on intellectual property and content.
Alfredo Viegas
The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not born into the class he must soon insert himself into it, in order to exist. He is the fine nervous flower of the bourgeoisie.
Louise Bogan
This region breeds intellectual discussion and thought; without that we wouldn't have the Wright Brothers.
Dr. Yvonne Seon
China has not lived up to its responsibility to effectively enforce intellectual property rights.
Chris Israel
The cost of software is going down rapidly, the cost of producing intellectual property is going down dramatically, and the ability to differentiate is also going down. But if the costs of producing software and distributing software have gone down so dramatically, why does it still cost so much to buy software?
Byron Sebastian
Most intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the same.
Wilhelm Reich
What has come out of this episode is how really out of touch Mr. Bush is with the intellectual foundations of the movement that he purports to represent.
Roger Pilon
Even when students graduate from universities, they are not able to fill the intellectual positions that need to be filled. They are not capable of generating new ideas.
Ammar Abdulhamid
Agitation is that part of our intellectual life where vitality results; there ideas are born, breed and bring forth.
George E. Woodberry
These new patents expand the entire body of intellectual property surrounding the company's devices and technology.
John Hinson
We own the intellectual property.
David Askew
Companies our size should not take their core IP [intellectual property] and have it essentially owned by individuals of another company.
Mike Fields
In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits.
Robert Hall
But it takes me away from my expertise. It's not intellectual capital, which is what we're allegedly all about.
Brad Sasser
[Our understanding is] not intellectual, but instinctive.
Ann Richards
Israel has created a new image of the Jew in the world - the image of a working and an intellectual people, of a people that can fight with heroism.
David Ben gurion
This is an age of intellectual sauces, of essence, of distillation. We have "conclusions" without deductions, "abridgments of history" and "abridgments of science" without leading facts.
Benjamin Haydon
Intellectual activity is a danger to the building of character.
Joseph Goebbels
I firmly agree with the way the IETF deals with [intellectual property] claims.
Paul Hoffman
He was this anonymous intellectual.
Mark Friedman
The art of one period cannot be approached through the attitudes (emotional or intellectual) of another.
Louise Bogan
One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.
William Lyon Phelps
PASTIME, n. A device for promoting dejection. Gentle exercise for intellectual debility.
Ambrose Bierce
Cynicism: The intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.
J. Russell Lynes
To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal.
Saint Augustine
Compared to industrially developed countries, we haven't done nearly enough to protect and encourage businesses' intellectual innovation.
Chen Jinhua
It's a totally intellectual response to something so physical.
Scott Becker
Intellectual ... to the animal.
Timothy Mcveigh
I believe that intellectual property will take on a different meaning.
Sam Pitroda
Comets are far more than an intellectual interest. These things affect us, and may have even enabled us [to exist].
Don Yeomans
Everything here is about science. Our product is intellectual property.
Terry Payne
We tend to be a more intellectual group. I don't run into people that are intolerant.
Rev. Judith Quarles
I enjoy going to see what gives me both emotional and intellectual stimulation.
Malcolm Rogers
Every marriage of an intellectual with the communist party ends in adultery.
Nicolas Gomez Davila
A man of character, conviction and kindness ... was a classic American intellectual -- a man with a brilliant and probing mind, yet entirely approachable and pragmatic.
Jay Rockefeller
Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities will always be the favorite beverage of the intellectual.
Thomas De Quincey
There's not too much intellectual conversation around the dinner table. So, I do miss the sciences, but I really enjoy what I'm doing right now.
Sarah Konrad
An intellectual is someone who avoids the mundane, and pursues the obscure.
Richard Reeves
Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
Edward O. Wilson
We plan to be very vigorous in the defense of our intellectual property.
Craig Mchugh
Greed probably figures in my intellectual life as well, as I attempt to absorb a massive amount of information with consequent mental indigestion.
Etty Hillesum
We do not believe that they apply to our flash cards, and this litigation will not deter us from protecting Lexar's intellectual property from Fuji's infringement.
Eric Whitaker
An intellectual is someone who has found something more interesting than sex.
Edgar Wallace
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