The intellectual activity of those without power is always characterized as non-intellectual.

Creeds and castes, and all forms of intellectual and emotional grouping, belong to the past.

There’s nothing so passionate as a vested interest disguised as an intellectual conviction.

God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It’s as simple as that.

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

To force oneself to believe and to accept a thing without understanding is political, and not spiritual or intellectual.

For all things difficult to acquire, the intelligent man works with perseverance.

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

We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing.

Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.

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

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

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

Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

We don’t see things the way they are. We see them the way we are.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

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