#intellect

There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

#always #intellectual #side #something #suspect

We were playing, not for the drunks, but for the musicians, because it was more intellectually challenging. We needed somewhere to put our energy to show that we were growing, and as we started to achieve this, people came to hear us musically. ↗

— Ronnie Hawkins

#because #came #challenging #drunks #energy

[T]he more clamour we make about 'the women's point of view', the more we rub it into people that the women's point of view is different, and frankly I do not think it is -- at least in my job. The line I always want to take is, that there is the 'point of view' of the reasonably enlightened human brain, and that this is the aspect of the matter which I am best fitted to uphold. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#clichés #double-standards #empowerment #equality #feminism

Nothing is so envied as genius, nothing so hopeless of attainment by labor alone. Though labor always accompanies the greatest genius, without the intellectual gift labor alone will do little. ↗

— B. R. Hayden

#alone #always #attainment #envied #genius

Intellects whose desires have outstripped their understanding. ↗

— Friedrich August von Hayek

#intellects #outstripped #their #understanding #whose

The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#existence #extinction #holds #intellectual #much

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#enemies #friends #intellect #looks #beauty

In a more intellectually rigorous age, I wouldn't be talked about as a satirist at all. I would just be a topical comedian. ↗

— Rory Bremner

#age #comedian #i #intellectually #just

I was unpopular at school just because I was an intellectual. I always answered all the questions off the top of my head but they nevertheless resented because of that. ↗

— George Woodcock

#answered #because #head #i #i always

The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#cut #garment #heart #intellect #speaks