Intellectual Quotes and Messages

I think ideas only lead to change for intellectual people; and not even them. What really leads to change is experience. Life itself is the teacher.

And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.

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

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

There are only two great tragedies in life: one is not getting what you want and the other is getting it.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better.

The price paid for intellectual pacification is the sacrifice of the entire moral courage of the human mind.

Holding onto your anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.

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.

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

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.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

The fool wonders, the wise man asks.

I don’t consider myself an intellectual. And this is not one of my aims. But I admire intellectual people.