#intellect

Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions. ↗

— Robert M. Pirsig

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I had to be intellectually satisfied as well as emotionally because at that time of life one doesn't just fall into it in adolescent emotion, and I was satisfied at every point that it was the one way and the hard way to do things. ↗

— Ruth Pitter

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I had to satisfy the action fans, the romantic fans, the intellectual fans. It was a terrific burden. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

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A mugwump is a person educated beyond his intellect. ↗

— Horace Porter

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I shall suggest, on the contrary, that all communication relies, to a noticeable extent on evoking knowledge that we cannot tell, and that all our knowledge of mental processes, like feelings or conscious intellectual activities, is based on a knowledge which we cannot tell. ↗

— Michael Polanyi

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I have spent a good part of my life showing what an intellectual bubble the Left lives in. ↗

— Dennis Prager

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I'm strictly for Stevenson. I don't dig the intellectual bit, but I'm telling you, man, he knows the most. ↗

— Elvis Presley

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If we look into ourselves we discover propensities which declare that our intellects have arisen from a lower form; could our minds be made visible we should find them tailed. ↗

— William Winwood Reade

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Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat. ↗

— Mary Renault

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If I had to choose criteria, for me, it's about first the director. I want to be a part of something that's good and intellectually challenging. After the director it's the character and the story. That's the deal for me. ↗

— Giovanni Ribisi

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