#intellect

I've been called many things, but never an intellectual. ↗

— Tallulah Bankhead

#called #i #intellectual #many #never

Of course we all know Biden is the intellect of the Democratic Party. Kind of a grin with a body behind it. ↗

— Clint Eastwood

#body #course #democratic #democratic party #grin

It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

#does #due #intellect #pay #reverence

Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#civil #intellectual #more #reading #resigned

The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance. ↗

— Robert Bork

#believe #classes #highly #influential #intellectual

Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic concept. ↗

— Robert Bork

#commands #concept #fashion #intellectual #law

If God has made the world a perfect mechanism, He has at least conceded so much to our imperfect intellect that in order to predict little parts of it, we need not solve innumerable differential equations, but can use dice with fair success. ↗

— Max Born

#dice #differential #equations #fair #god

God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#god #intellectual #levels #metaphor #simple

Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism; the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young. ↗

— Henry Seidel Canby

#directing #diseases #dogmatism #intellects #lives

Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#elaborate #elite #fall #intellectual #obviously