#intellect

There is no greater excitement than to support an intellectual wife and have her support you. Marriage is a partnership in which each inspires the other, and brings fruition to both of you. ↗

— Millicent Carey McIntosh

#brings #each #excitement #fruition #greater

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs. ↗

— Christopher Morley

#affairs #awareness #everyday #important #intellectual

The moral and intellectual character of the Africans is widely different in different nations. ↗

— Samuel George Morton

#different #intellectual #moral #nations #widely

The relation between practical and spiritual spheres in music is obvious, if only because it demands ears, finger, consciousness and intellect. ↗

— Luciano Berio

#between #consciousness #demands #ears #finger

My dear boy, the people who only love once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination. Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect—simply a confession of failures. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#imagination #intellect #loyalty #shallow #faith

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#expect #expect the unexpected #intellect #modern #shows

We are like dwarfs standing on the shoulders of giants; thanks to them, we see farther than they. Busying ourselves with the treatises written by the ancients, we take their choice thoughts, buried by age and human neglect, and we raise them, as it were from death to renewed life." -Peter of Blois (d. 1212). ↗

— Carter Lindberg

#history-of-thought #intellectual-history #age

We do not measure a culture based on its output of undisguised trivialities, but what it claims as significant. ↗

— Neil Postman

#recreation #age

Henry's universe was modeled on the highball. It was a mixture in which half a pint of the fizziest philosophical and scientific ideas all but drowned a small jigger of immediate experience, most of it strictly sexual. Broken reeds are seldom good mixers. They're far too busy with their ideas, their sensuality and their psychosomatic complaints to be able to take an interest in other people - even their own wives and children. They live in a state of the most profound voluntary ignorance, not knowing anything about anybody, but abounding in preconceived opinions about everything. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#huxley #ignorance #intellect #business

I'm a schoolteacher. That's even worse than being an intellectual. Schoolteachers are not only comic, they're often cold and hungry in this richest land on earth. ↗

— Joseph L. Mankiewicz

#cold #comic #earth #even #even worse