Intellectual Quotes
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Anti-Catholicism is the anti-Semitism of the intellectual.
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Persons of slender intellectual stamina dread competition, as dwarfs are afraid of being run over in the street.
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Rage is a sign of nothing but immaturity. The power of any faith comes not from its coercion of critics and dissenters. It comes from the moral integrity and the intellectual strength of its believers.
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No vital Christianity is possible unless at least three aspects of it are developed. These are the inner life of devotion, the outer life of service, and the intellectual life of rationality.
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I refuse to engage in an intellectual battle with an unarmed man.
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I say that I represent this movement because my intellectual allegiances are clearly European, not African.
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I'm a fake intellectual.
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The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value.
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In mysticism that love of truth which we saw as the beginning of all philosophy leaves the merely intellectual sphere, and takes on the assured aspect of a personal passion. Where the philosopher guesses and argues, the mystic lives and looks; and speaks, consequently, the disconcerting language of first-hand experience, not the neat dialectic of the schools. Hence whilst the Absolute of the metaphysicians remains a diagram —impersonal and unattainable—the Absolute of the mystics is lovable, attainable, alive.
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People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
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What is mind but motion in the intellectual sphere?
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My sense of designing is a mix of intuition and intellectual control.
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Ten years from now, I'll probably be an accountant or something, maybe a rocket scientist. That's what I'm aiming for. I've got a few degrees, I'm actually going to Yale, yeah. I'm pretty intellectual, yeah, you know, whatever you call it.
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But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.
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Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage - not intellectual courage, but just plain physical courage.
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Develop all four intelligences. PQ (physical intelligence) which represents 70 trillion cells that fight disease and digest your breakfast. IQ (intellectual intelligence) EQ (emotional intelligence) the sensing and wisdom of the heart - - and SQ (spiritual intelligence) having to do with meaning, purpose and integrity around your selected value system and your believed source. When combined, they change the world for good.
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It's probably an intellectual weakness, but I look at the stars, and I say, 'There's something bigger than us out there.'
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For people who know McQueen, there is always an underlying message. It's usually only the intellectual ones who understand what's going on in what I do.
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When the intellectual part of guitar playing overrides the spiritual, you don't get to extreme heights.
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Our intellectual development in the field of science has outstripped our human development in the field of character.
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It is He who gave to this intellectual nature free-will of such a kind, that if he wishes to forsake God his blessedness, misery should forthwith result.
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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.
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The onslaught of new and complex information, the academic and thinktank cults of expertise, not to mention the impossibility of bohemia in the age of high rents, have conspired to assassinate the public intellectual.
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To be intellectual does not require one to be alienated and oppositional.
