24 quotes found
“The hobgoblin of a little mind may be the genius of a great one.”
“To force oneself to believe and to accept a thing without understanding is political, and not spiritual or intellectual.”
“It's difficult being an intellectual in a bread and butter sort of town.”
“Making your mind your best friend is the most intellectual choice that any man can make”
“Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaIntellectual: One who knows no craft.”
“Introspection does not need to be a still life. It can be an active alchemy.”
“There are two aspects to this world; even though it is fickle, it is within principle. Through the medium of the five senses and intellectual knowledge, it appears fickle and through Gnan (Real Kno...”
“A wise man loves any kind of work, be it spiritual, physical or intellectual”
“I dont really know what intellectual means, but if it means youve got a desire to learn, youve got a desire to look for things that havent been presented to you, then, maybe. I think that intellect...”
“Whoever prefers the material comforts of life over intellectual wealth is like the owner of a palace who moves into the servants quarters and leaves the sumptuous rooms empty.”
“The human mind demands intellectual expansion and expression.”
“A writer should be able to open a window or two for others to see the world and themselves in a new light. Anything less is just selfindulgence and intellectual masturbation.”
“A writer should be able to open a window or two and prompt others to see the world and themselves in a new light. Anything less is just selfindulgence and intellectual masturbation.”
“I had been brought up to be something of an intellectual, but there seemed at the time no connection between my newly formed ideas and the world to which I had returned. Indeed, I did not even reco...”
“She was no intellectual, but men were scrupulous about avoiding intellectual women unless they had the sense to keep it well hidden.”
“I've seen what rational thought leads to. Dumbest people I ever met were intellectuals.”
“For the first time after so many years I come back to cry aloud in the desert. Because this is the mission of the intellectual who is truly a prophetto cry in the desert. The greatest of the prophe...”
“I write out of my intellectual experience.”
“Which got me to wondering whether its possible to learn how to be a person in a world where all the people are dead.”
