#intellect

I find it satisfying and intellectually stimulating to work with the intensity, brevity, balance and word play of the short story. ↗

— Annie Proulx

#brevity #find #i #intellectually #intensity

Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#incapable #intellectuals #like #many #saying

It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in. ↗

— Friedrich Schiller

#creative #creative work #examines #hinders #ideas

Maybe it's the hair. Maybe it's the teeth. Maybe it's the intellect. No, it's the hair. ↗

— Tom Shales

#intellect #maybe #teeth

The grinding of the intellect is for most people as painful as a dentist's drill. ↗

— Leonard Woolf

#drill #grinding #intellect #most #painful

Simply to render oneself able to understand what other Christian thinkers have themselves come to understand and to more or less felicitously communicate requires that one's mind not be a blank slate but already properly formed, disciplined, and exercised. ↗

— Gregory B. Sadler

#christian-thought #discipline #intellect #intellectual-life #theology

In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavad-Gita, in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seems puny and trivial. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#hinduism #spiritual #intellect

Anti-intellectualism remains strongly entrenched in many parts of the church, but it is grounded in fear, not in faith. (p. 19) ↗

— Robin R. Meyers

#faith #faith

We sensible often resist intrusive love and its chaos practically, employing measures to prevent the former for fear of the latter. But for all our wit and work, that desperation for control also prevents the pure, transcendental freedom more often delivered by both. ↗

— Tiffany Madison

#control #desperation #freedom #love #lover

I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty. ↗

— Mark Twain

#inspirational #intellect #morality #inspirational