#intellect

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Muscle is good, but craft is better


Wace


#intelligence #merlin #strength #intelligence

What'll Geoffrey do when you pull off your First, my child?" demanded Miss Haydock. "Well, Eve -- it will be awkward if I do that. Poor lamb! I shall have to make him believe I only did it by looking fragile and pathetic at the viva.


Dorothy L. Sayers


#academia #academic-degrees #achievements #clichés #double-standards

Deep” to me connotes intellectual rigor, not fashionable obscurity or the unnecessarily academic.


Alex Payne


#intellectual-rigor #intelligence #intelligence

For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.


John Milton


#censorship #ideas #intellect #life

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.


Isaac Asimov


#intellectual #political #willful-ignorance #life

Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life.


Charles Scribner, Jr.


#commonplace #cultivated #essential #everyday #everyday life

Whoever prefers the material comforts of life over intellectual wealth is like the owner of a palace who moves into the servants’ quarters and leaves the sumptuous rooms empty.


Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach


#intelligence #materialism #intelligence

French intellectual life has, in my opinion, been turned into something cheap and meretricious by the 'star' system. It is like Hollywood. Thus we go from one absurdity to another - Stalinism, existentialism. Lacan, Derrida - some of them obscene ( Stalinism), some simply infantile and ridiculous ( Lacan, Derrida). What is striking, however, is the pomposity and self-importance, at each stage.


Noam Chomsky


#french-intellectuals #lacan #sartre #life

It's not the most intellectual job in the world, but I do have to know the letters.


Vanna White


#i do #intellectual #job #know #letters

When public and private sectors combine intellectual and other resources, more can be achieved.


Gro Harlem Brundtland


#combine #intellectual #more #other #private