#intellect

History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff well, it might as well be dead. ↗

— Arnold J. Toynbee

#dead #history #intellectual #intellectual life #life

Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization. ↗

— G. M. Trevelyan

#civilization #curiosity #disinterested #intellectual #intellectual curiosity

Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#company #crowd #digestion #even #exercised

My deepest impulses are optimistic, an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect. ↗

— Ellen Willis

#deepest #impulses #intellectually #me #necessary

Furthermore, the spirit of enterprise which had its first intellectual development in England has especially flourished here as well as throughout all of Canada, while the same spirit has become less virile in the land of its origin. ↗

— Charles E. Wilson

#canada #development #england #enterprise #especially

Actually, I've never thought myself as being a particularly hard worker. I've always worked, and I guess my mind is busy all the time. I've been in a lot of things just because of my own intellectual curiosity. ↗

— Sam Wyly

#always #because #been #being #busy

Tolerance, which is one form of love of neighbor, must manifest itself not only in our personal relations, but also in the arena of society as well. In the world of opinion and politics, tolerance is that virtue by which liberated minds conquer the evils of bigotry and hatred. Tolerance implies more than forbearance or the passive enduring of ideas different from our own. Properly conceived, tolerance is the positive and cordial effort to understand another’s beliefs, practices, and habits without necessarily sharing or accepting them. Tolerance quickens our appreciation and increases our respect for our neighbor’s point of view. It goes even further; it assumes a militant aspect when the rights of an opponent are assailed. Voltaire’s dictum, “I do not agree with a word that you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it,” is for all ages and places the perfect utterance of the tolerant ideal. ↗

— Joshua Loth Liebman

#intellectual-freedom #tolerance #age

Since art is a virtue of the intellect, it demands to communicate with the entire universe of the intellect. Hence it is that the normal climate of art is intelligence and knowledge: its normal soil, the civilized heritage of a consistent and integrated system of beliefs and values; its normal horizon , the infinity of human experience enlighted by the passionate insight of anguish or the intellectual virtues of a contemplative mind. ↗

— Jacques Maritain

#beliefs #intellect #art

An intellectual hatred is the worst. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#intellectual #worst

To an intellectual who is adrift in politics, a theory is an aim; to a true politician his theory is a boundary. ↗

— Francis Parker Yockey

#aim #boundary #his #intellectual #politician