In every country the intellectual class is the most influential class. This is the class which can foresee advice and lead. In no country does the mass of the people live the life for intelligent thought and action. It is largely imitative and follows the intellectual class. There is no exaggeration in saying that the entire destination of the country depends upon its intellectual class. If the intellectual class is honest and independent, it can be trusted to take the initiative and give a proper lead when a crisis arises. It is true that the intellect by itself is no virtue. It is only a means and the use of a means depends upon the ends which an intellectual person pursues. An intellectual man can be a good man but he may easily be a rogue. Similarly an intellectual class may be a band of high-souled persons, ready to help, ready to emancipate erring humanity or it may easily be a gang of crooks or a body of advocates of narrow clique from which it draws its support.

~ B.r. Ambedkar

B.r. Ambedkar Class Country Intellectual Intellectualism

When, thirty-five years ago, I tried to give a summary of the ideas and principles of that social philosophy that was once known under the name of liberalism, I did not indulge in the vain hope that my account would prevent the impending catastrophes to which the policies adopted by the European nations were manifestly leading. All I wanted to achieve was to offer to the small minority of thoughtful people an opportunity to learn something about the aims of classical liberalism and its achievements and thus to pave the way for a resurrection of the spirit of freedom after the coming debacle.

~ Ludwig Von Mises

Ludwig Von Mises Activism Classical Liberalism Intellectual Intellectual Life Liberalism Libertarianism Political Action

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.

~ Bill Gates

Bill Gates Life Property Intellectual

People have to respect intellectual property.

~ Coco Lee

Coco Lee People Intellectual

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

Christopher Morley Perspective Intellectual

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

~ Thomas Sowell

Thomas Sowell Socialism Intellectual

The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.

~ Robert M. Hutchins

Robert M. Hutchins College Intellectual Cover

The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers.

~ Benjamin Banneker

Benjamin Banneker Mind Intellectual Colour

Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second.

~ Maurice Ravel

Maurice Ravel Emotional Intellectual

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

~ Albert Camus

Albert Camus Mind Watches Intellectual

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

Leonardo Da Vinci Passion Intellectual

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

~ Janis Joplin

Janis Joplin Questions Intellectual

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight D. Eisenhower Man Words Intellectual

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

~ Ambrose Bierce

Ambrose Bierce Independence Intellectual

Our family life was certainly not intellectual.

~ Douglass North

Douglass North Life Intellectual

Architecture is a ride - a physical ride and an intellectual ride.

~ Antoine Predock

Antoine Predock Ride Intellectual Physical

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

~ David Ben-Gurion

David Ben-Gurion Moral Anchor Intellectual

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.

~ John Dewey

John Dewey Man Intellectual Beliefs

We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.

~ Calvin Coolidge

Calvin Coolidge Spiritual Intellectual

The liberal professions, and in a wider sense the well-to-do classes, are certainly those with the liveliest taste for knowledge and the most active intellectual life.

~ Émile Durkheim

Émile Durkheim Life Intellectual Liberal

I write out of my intellectual experience.

~ Tom Stoppard

Tom Stoppard Intellectual Write I Write

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.

~ John Maynard Keynes

John Maynard Keynes Reward Taxes Intellectual

What we now call 'finance' is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.

~ Robert Graves

Robert Graves Love Intellectual Human

The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.

~ Soren Kierkegaard

Soren Kierkegaard Life Thoughts Intellectual

There will always be those little minds who, out of vanity or intellectual display, will attempt to destroy faith in the very foundations of life.

~ Ezra Taft Benson

Ezra Taft Benson Life Vanity Intellectual

Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.

~ Walter Gropius

Walter Gropius Life Society Intellectual

People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect.

~ Tadao Ando

Tadao Ando People Intellectual

To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.

~ Dick Cavett

Dick Cavett Me Intellectual

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

~ Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski Simple Artist Intellectual

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.

~ Susan Sontag

Susan Sontag Revenge Intellectual

To an intellectual who is adrift in politics, a theory is an aim; to a true politician his theory is a boundary.

~ Francis Parker Yockey

Francis Parker Yockey Aim True Intellectual

It makes me sad there is still some intellectual snobbery out there.

~ Steve Easterbrook

Steve Easterbrook Me Intellectual Still

To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson Life Exercise Intellectual

Surrealism was necessary - essential, even - in the 1920s to bridge the gap between rationalism and the subconscious. It started something important. But by the early '60s, it had become petit-bourgeois; it was too intellectual and romantic, and had ground to a halt. It had become respectable.

~ Alejandro Jodorowsky

Alejandro Jodorowsky Bridge Early Intellectual

I had to satisfy the action fans, the romantic fans, the intellectual fans. It was a terrific burden.

~ Sidney Poitier

Sidney Poitier Action Intellectual Fans

A relationship will be futile if it's based just on physicality. Intellectual stimulation is a must for me.

~ Arjun Kapoor

Arjun Kapoor Me Intellectual Will

I try to understand place on a deeper level than just the physical or environmental aspects. It includes cultural and intellectual forces, too. It's an inclusive approach that brings in many disciplines and sees place as a dynamic thing.

~ Antoine Predock

Antoine Predock Try Intellectual Place

Intellectual property is an important legal and cultural issue. Society as a whole has complex issues to face here: private ownership vs. open source, and so on.

~ Tim Berners-Lee

Tim Berners-Lee Legal Face Intellectual

In basic research, intellectual rigor and sentimental freedom necessarily alternate.

~ Victor Vasarely

Victor Vasarely Research Intellectual