Intellectual Quotes

In disposition the Negro is joyous, flexible, and indolent; while the many nations which compose this race present a singular diversity of intellectual character, of which the far extreme is the lowest grade of humanity. Samuel George Morton
Character Humanity Diversity Disposition Extreme Compose Joyous Singular Intellectual Grade Nations Which While Race Far Lowest Flexible Many Present
You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford. Samuel Johnson
Life Tired You Man Willing Find London He Leave Intellectual Sir Afford Who
In the quest for perfect protection of Sony's intellectual property, the company threw the privacy and security of their customers under the bus. Sarah Jeong
Property Privacy Protection Security Threw Perfect Sony Quest Intellectual Intellectual Property Bus Customers Company
I discovered that my drag really does speak to people on an emotional level. I also discovered that people are sometimes put off by an intellectual approach to drag. Sasha Velour
People Speak Sometimes Approach Emotional Emotional Level Put Also Does Discovered Intellectual Off Really Level Drag
The momentum of my creative life and intellectual growth is still the momentum of breaking out of fundamentalism. Because of that, I'm very grateful for it. But I'm also grateful that at the center of it was something that I still believe to be true - those fundamentals of faith. Scott Derrickson
Life Faith Creative Grateful Be True Believe Those Out Something True Also Because Still Intellectual Very Center Breaking Creative Life Momentum Growth Fundamentalism Fundamentals
I've always been interested in intellectual history and in psychology, and anxiety is obviously something that's been a big part of my life. Scott Stossel
Life History Anxiety My Life Big Something Part Obviously Always Been Intellectual Big Part Psychology Interested
I'm an ambitious person, and Harvard makes me feel successful, just having gotten in here. That's the ugly side of why I'm proud of being at Harvard Law School. Another reason is because there's a spirit of serious intellectual endeavor here. Scott Turow
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I am not an intellectual. An intellectual is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso, whereas I just say 'pass the mustard'. Sebastian Horsley
Say Mustard Someone Picasso Looks Pass Am Intellectual Just Whereas Who Thinks Sausage
The thing is, my dad's always been more of a bookworm; he was interested in more intellectual pursuits, but nobody can escape the passion that football stirs. Shakira
Passion More Pursuits Football He Nobody Always Been Intellectual Escape Interested Dad Thing
I feel like we want to compartmentalise things and say, 'Well, that's emotional, artistic and subjective, while this is intellectual, objective and measured.' I have difficulty thinking that's the way we experience things. Shane Carruth
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The teacher who would be true to his mission and accomplish the most good, must give prominence to moral as well as intellectual instruction. Sheldon Jackson
Teacher Good Be True Prominence Moral Must Would Would-Be Give True Mission Most Instruction Well His Accomplish Intellectual Who
The most important thing about intellectual property vs. creative expression is that copyright law was created not to stifle creativity but to encourage creativity. Shepard Fairey
Property Creative Creativity Law Important About Most Most Important Thing Stifle Important Thing Encourage Intellectual Intellectual Property The Most Important Created Creative Expression Expression Thing Copyright
I do think that copyrights and intellectual property are important - it's important to be able to keep people from making verbatim copies of a particular creation that could somehow hurt the creator. Shepard Fairey
Property Hurt People Important Creation Think Able Somehow Could Particular Making Intellectual Intellectual Property Creator Keep Copies
I had to satisfy the action fans, the romantic fans, the intellectual fans. It was a terrific burden. Sidney Poitier
Burden Fans Action Had Terrific Intellectual Romantic Satisfy
In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention. Simone Weil
Power Nothing Humility Virtue More Attention Nor Intellectual Than Order Less
My parents were gigantic influences on me. I had a deep hunger to impress my father, who was a professor and an intellectual. I wanted his approval. Siri Hustvedt
Me Father Parents Impress Approval Hunger Gigantic Had Were His Intellectual Influences Wanted Who Deep Professor
When I watch a film, I watch it as an audience instead of thinking as an actor or an intellectual. I see whether it made me laugh, get involved or shocked me at certain points. Something has to stir inside me. Sonakshi Sinha
Me Made Thinking Laugh Inside See Something Points Instead Involved Audience Intellectual Stir Shocked Get Whether Certain Film Actor Watch
I am just postmodern enough not to trust 'postmodern' as a description of our times, for it privileges the practices and intellectual formations of modernity. Calling this a postmodern age reproduces the modernist assumption that history must be policed by periods. Stanley Hauerwas
History Trust Age Enough Assumption Our Must Postmodern Periods Calling Practices Am Intellectual Times Privileges Just Modernist Modernity Description
Today, whenever I'm under pressure to make a decision on a transaction but I don't know what the right one is, I try desperately to postpone it. I'll insist on more information - on doing extra laps around the intellectual parking lot - before committing. I take the same approach with people, too. Stephen A. Schwarzman
Today People Try Decision Pressure Insist Before Extra Too Right One Desperately Approach Postpone More Parking Parking Lot Take Know Make Around Doing Intellectual Lot Same Committing Transaction Whenever Information Laps Right
It was extremely important to show that Wilde's sexuality was not just some intellectual idea. It was real, and it was about the human body. To just have mentioned it and not shown it would have been, I think, peculiar and wrong. Stephen Fry
Important Think Wilde Extremely Would Sexuality Some About Mentioned Wrong Idea Real Been Intellectual Human Just Human Body Body Show Shown Peculiar
Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches. Steve Ballmer
Property Cancer Sense Everything Intellectual Intellectual Property Itself Linux
I don't like comedy that I think is bad comedy, where people are trying to be sick for the sake of it, where there's no intellectual point behind it. I like stuff that's got an underlying point of view. Steve Coogan
People Comedy Think Sick Bad Point Point Of View Stuff Like Underlying Got Sake Intellectual Trying Behind Where View
I approached the bulk of my schoolwork as a chore rather than an intellectual adventure. Steven Chu
Rather Adventure Schoolwork Bulk Intellectual Than Chore
By exploring the political and moral colorings of discoveries about what makes us tick, we can have a more honest science and a less fearful intellectual milieu. Steven Pinker
Science Political Moral Fearful About More Tick Makes Discoveries Intellectual Us Exploring Milieu Less Honest
There's guilt about our treatment of native peoples in modern intellectual life, and an unwillingness to acknowledge there could be anything good about Western culture. Steven Pinker
Life Good Culture People Guilt Our About Could Intellectual Western Intellectual Life Western Culture Modern Native Anything Acknowledge Treatment
I think that a failure of statistical thinking is the major intellectual shortcoming of our universities, journalism and intellectual culture. Steven Pinker
Failure Culture Think Thinking Our Statistical Journalism Major Intellectual Universities
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