We should take care not to make the intellect our goal; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.

Don't leave home without your sword - your intellect.

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.

The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.

Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence.

I'm looking for a way out of here. I can't have it physically, so I'm going to have it intellectually. It was a beautiful thing to ride Seabiscuit in my imagination. And it's just fantastic to be there alongside Louie as he's breaking the NCAA mile record. People at these vigorous moments in their lives - it's my way of living vicariously.

Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.

My true function within a society which embraces all of us is to continue an age-old tradition. This tradition is to create images from the depths of the imagination and to give them form, whether visual, intellectual or musical.

The violent quarrel between the abstractionists and the surrealists seems to me quite unnecessary. All good art has contained both abstract and surrealist elements, just as it has contained both classical and romantic elements - order and surprise, intellect and imagination, conscious and unconscious.

M*A*S*H offered real characters and everybody identified with them because they had such soul. The humor was intelligent and it always assumed that you had an intellect.

Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.

I would like to make a building as intellectually driven as it is sculptural and as positive as it would be acceptable to hope.

The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves, as far as is possible in the society of today, that union between manual and intellectual labor which characterizes the society we are aiming at.

Art is great. At its best, it engages the intellect and challenges the spirit; it connects us across history and reminds us of our humanity.

History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff well, it might as well be dead.

Our healthcare system has seen some of the greatest achievements of the human intellect since we started recording history: We're developing incredible devices and implantables to improve the quantity and quality of people's lives.

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.

I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing.

Democracy's premise rests on the notion that the collective wisdom of the majority will prove right more often than it's wrong; that given sufficient opportunity in the pursuit of happiness, your population will develop its talents, its intellect, its better judgment; that over time its capacity for discernment and self-correction will be enlarged.