Intellectual Quotes and Messages

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

The fool wonders, the wise man asks.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

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

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

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

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

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

Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.