#intel

When distinction of any kind, even intellectual distinction, is somehow resented as a betrayal of the American spirit of equal opportunity for all, the result must be just this terror of individualistic impulses setting us apart, either above or below our neighbours; just this determination to obey without questioning and to subscribe with passion to the conventions and traditions. The dilemma becomes a very real one: How can this sense of democratic equality be made compatible with respect for exceptional personalities or great minds? How can democracy, as we understand it today, with its iron repression of the free spirit, its monotonous standardisation of everything, learn to cherish an intellectual aristocracy without which any nation runs the risk of becoming a civilisation of the commonplace and the second-rate? ↗

— Harold Edmund Stearns

#civilization #conventions #distinction #equality #individualism

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. ↗

— Henry Ford

#again #begin #failure #intelligently #more

The education of my brother and myself was of paramount importance to my parents, and in addition to their strong encouragement, they were prepared to make any sacrifice to further our intellectual development. ↗

— Jerome Isaac Friedman

#any #brother #development #education #encouragement

Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#aspect #cases #convey #even #improbable

There are whole precincts of voters in this country whose united intelligence does not equal that of one representative American woman. ↗

— Carrie Chapman Catt

#american woman #country #does #equal #intelligence

I would not ever try to be a show intellectual, which I was accused of doing a while on ABC. I thought you were supposed to read the guests' books. ↗

— Dick Cavett

#accused #books #doing #ever #guests

We've no use for intellectuals in this outfit. What we need is chimpanzees. Let me give you a word of advice: never say a word to us about being intelligent. We will think for you, my friend. Don't forget it. ↗

— Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#advice #being #forget #friend #give

I can tell you that the Canadian intelligence and law enforcement agencies have been providing outstanding co-operation with our intelligence and law enforcement agencies as we work together to track down terrorists here in North America and put them out of commission. ↗

— Paul Cellucci

#america #been #canadian #co-operation #commission

Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can be more fully performed by this art, which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

#although #art #arts #away #better

Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that keeps within itself. ↗

— Ralph Cudworth

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