There is no greater excitement than to support an intellectual wife and have her support you. Marriage is a partnership in which each inspires the other, and brings fruition to both of you. ~By Millicent Carey McIntosh ~
Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity. ~By Benno C. Schmidt, Jr. ~
Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity. ~By John F. Kennedy ~
The amount of sophistication varies according to the quality of the medium, and to the state of the same medium at different times; it must be attributed in the best cases physiologically to the medium, intellectually to the control. ~By Oliver Joseph Lodge ~
The forces that are driving mankind toward unity and peace are deep-seated and powerful. They are material and natural, as well as moral and intellectual. ~By Arthur Henderson ~
Will and intellect are one and the same thing. ~By Baruch Spinoza ~
People need meanings to everything. People want you to intellectualize every choice you make. ~By Juliana Hatfield ~
Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known. ~By Madeleine L'Engle ~
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. ~By William Falconer ~
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. ~By Tim Berners Lee ~
We have arrived at an intellectual chaos. ~By Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ~
To be black and an intellectual in America is to live in a box. On the box is a label, not of my own choosing. ~By Stephen Carter ~
I like John Kerry. I think he's intellectually curious and very thoughtful. I think he's deeply committed on issues like the environment. I think he's an internationalist, which I am. ~By Howard Dean ~
In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention. ~By Simone Weil ~
But the answer to how to live is to stop thinking about it. And just to live. But you're doing that anyway. However you intellectualise it, you still just live. ~By Damien Hirst ~
Nothing is so envied as genius, nothing so hopeless of attainment by labor alone. Though labor always accompanies the greatest genius, without the intellectual gift labor alone will do little. ~By B. R. Hayden ~
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. ~By John Dewey ~
The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself. ~By Noam Chomsky ~
Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals. ~By Edmund Wilson ~
There is a gulf between the Arab peoples and Arab intellectuals. ~By Tahar Ben Jelloun ~
It was generally believed that Catholics were not interested in arts and science graduate schools. They weren't going to be intellectuals. And so I put the theses to the test. And they all collapsed. ~By Andrew Greeley ~
I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience. ~By Alice James ~
I'm not an intellectual composer. ~By Les Baxter ~
Science is the greatest creative impulse of our time. It dominates the intellectual scene and forms our lives, not only in the material things which it has given us, but also in that it guides our spirit. ~By Polykarp Kusch ~
The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. ~By Bertrand Russell ~
Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches. ~By Steve Ballmer ~
I think we actually punish children out of their relationship with their bodies... we categorically separate mind and body and emotion and intellect. ~By Susan Griffin ~
Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap. ~By Jacques Barzun ~
There's a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics, especially within the sphere of the arts and the theatre. ~By Harold Pinter ~
Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. ~By Janis Joplin ~
This is still a man's profession, with a lot of men who intellectually and emotionally have not accepted that the military could be women's work. ~By Lawrence Korb ~
You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford. ~By Samuel Johnson ~
On the whole, the psychological work of the last quarter of the nineteenth century emphasized the study of consciousness to the neglect of the total life of intellect and character. ~By Edward Thorndike ~
Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you. ~By Roger Ebert ~
My deepest impulses are optimistic, an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect. ~By Ellen Willis ~
The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers. ~By Benjamin Banneker ~
We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense. ~By Samuel Fuller ~
I think some people wished I'd kept myself out of the book. But I kind of insist on it because I want the reader to share my engagement with the material, if you like, not pretend that I'm doing it completely intellectually. ~By Helen Garner ~
I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty. ~By Claude Levi-Strauss ~
Eighty percent of our life is emotion, and only 20 percent is intellect. I am much more interested in how you feel than how you think. I can change how you think, but how you feel is something deeper and stronger, and it's something that's inside you. ~By Frank Luntz ~
The intellectual evolution of the race consists in an increase in the number, delicacy, complexity, permanence and speed of formation of such associations. ~By Edward Thorndike ~
Since the days of Abraham many men of unusual intellect not only have diligently studied the divine plan, but have devoted their lives to having a part in making it known to others. ~By Joseph Franklin Rutherford ~
An intellectual is someone who avoids the mundane by lowering his handicap. ~By Richard Reeves ~
Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint. ~By Lewis H. Lapham ~
Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed. ~By Manuel Puig ~
Cultivate the frontal portion of her brain as much as that of man is cultivated, and she will stand his equal at least. Even now, where her mind has been called out at all, her intellect is as bright, as capacious, and as powerful as his. ~By Ernestine Rose ~
Anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the businessman. ~By Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. ~
Having a great intellect is no path to being happy. ~By Stephen Fry ~
Some people, however long their experience or strong their intellect, are temperamentally incapable of reaching firm decisions. ~By James Callaghan ~
Earlier in my life, I performed a lot of music. Some of it because I felt it was a demonstration, or a representation of certain intellectual concepts that were very exciting and important. ~By Michael Tilson Thomas ~
Marks of Identity is, among other things, the expression of the process of alienation in a contemporary intellectual with respect to his own country. ~By Juan Goytisolo ~
All this is applicable to the intellectual faculties of man. There is a considerable difference between one person and another as regards these faculties, as is well known to philosophers. ~By Maimonides ~
My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger. ~By Billy Connolly ~
I don't like to intellectualize about my acting. ~By Genevieve Bujold ~
I obtain great satisfaction out of using my intellect. ~By Temple Grandin ~
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death. ~By Albert Einstein ~
The stock market can be down, but the stock market is not an indication of where people's spirits and enthusiam are, and where their intellectual energy is. ~By James Daly ~
What is important is that one utilizes one's intellect and not to be 100 percent sure about one's convictions. One should always leave room for doubt. ~By Shirin Ebadi ~
But the Spain which emerged around 1960, beginning with its economic miracle, created by the invasion of tourists, can no longer result in impassioned dedication on the part of its intellectuals, and even less on the part of foreign intellectuals. ~By Juan Goytisolo ~
Basically I was a rebel growing up. I got kicked out of six schools. But I don't think that it makes you less of an intellect. You know, if you ever crave knowledge, there's always a library. ~By Michelle Rodriguez ~
The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement. ~By Anna Garlin Spencer ~
Genius is the very eye of intellect and the wing of thought; it is always in advance of its time, and is the pioneer for the generation which it precedes. ~By William Gilmore Simms ~
The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance. ~By Isaac Bashevis Singer ~
Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic. ~By Alexis Carrel ~
Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal to the growth of a masculine vigour of intellect. ~By George Boole ~
Eco sees the intellectual as an organizer of culture, someone who can run a magazine or a museum. An administrator, in fact. I think this is a melancholy situation for an intellectual. ~By Antonio Tabucchi ~
My own work in spin glass and its consequences has formed some of the intellectual basis for these interests. ~By Philip Warren Anderson ~
The intellectually sophisticated person is indifferent to all genuine individuality, because relationships and reactions result from it which cannot be exhausted with logical operations. ~By Georg Simmel ~
Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity. ~By Arthur Schopenhauer ~
I'm not one of those James Joyce intellectuals who can stand back and look at the whole edifice... It was a slow process for me to just crawl out of it, like a snake leaving his skin behind. ~By Frank McCourt ~
Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities will always be the favorite beverage of the intellectual. ~By Thomas de Quincey ~
The concept of reason itself appears as an artificial attempt to separate intellectual powers from the frustrations, emotions, and accidents which cause events; the concept of reason is viewed as facade to prevent change. ~By Edward Levi ~
For many decades now - and certainly during my adult life in academe - the Western intellectual world has not been convinced that theology is a pursuit that can be engaged in with intellectual honesty and integrity. ~By Arthur Peacocke ~
The fact is, every thinker, every philosopher, the moment he is forced to abandon his one-sided intellectual occupation by practical necessity, immediately returns to the general point of view of mankind. ~By Ernst Mach ~
Both Brutus and Hamlet are highly intellectual by nature and reflective by habit. Both may even be called, in a popular sense, philosophic; Brutus may be called so in a stricter sense. ~By Andrew Coyle Bradley ~
The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works. ~By Jacques Barzun ~
I'm not known for my intellectual range and tricks have been played on me. ~By William Sanderson ~
For him to have understood me would have meant reorganizing his thinking... giving up his intellectual ballast, and few people are willing to risk such a radical move. ~By Edward T. Hall ~
Conservatism has had from its inception vigorously positive, intellectually rigorous agenda and thinking. That agenda should have in my three pillars: strengthen the economy, strengthen our security, and strengthen our families. ~By Mitt Romney ~
People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect. ~By Tadao Ando ~
I approached the bulk of my schoolwork as a chore rather than an intellectual adventure. ~By Steven Chu ~
There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side. ~By Vaclav Havel ~
I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can be adduced that some vast intellect animates Infinity. ~By Percy Bysshe Shelley ~
In disposition the Negro is joyous, flexible, and indolent; while the many nations which compose this race present a singular diversity of intellectual character, of which the far extreme is the lowest grade of humanity. ~By Samuel George Morton ~
Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead. ~By Karl Von Clausewitz ~
We still need to feed the public, both physically and intellectually. ~By Barry Corbin ~
Notwithstanding the fact that the most innovative and progressive space we've seen - the Internet - has been the place where intellectual property has been least respected. You know, facts don't get in the way of this ideology. ~By Lawrence Lessig ~
When a person responds emotionally to intellectual things, or emotionally only to traditional emotional things - I find that an interesting break between myself and some other writers and fans. ~By Elizabeth Moon ~
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves. ~By Carl Jung ~
Judaism is an intellectually based religion, and the single most important theme is that of study. ~By Norman Lamm ~
As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted. ~By Mary A. Ward ~
Traveling is the only passion that doesn't need to feel shy in front of intellect. ~By Lennart Meri ~
Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves. ~By William Ellery Channing ~
Faith is the heroism of the intellect. ~By Charles Henry Parkhurst ~
When public and private sectors combine intellectual and other resources, more can be achieved. ~By Gro Harlem Brundtland ~
I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own. ~By Margaret Fuller ~
It will be sufficient to point to the enormous burdens which armaments place on the economic, social, and intellectual resources of a nation, as well as on its budget and taxes. ~By Ludwig Quidde ~
Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object. ~By Northrop Frye ~
Don't leave home without your sword - your intellect. ~By Alan Moore ~
In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny. ~By John Stuart Mill ~
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