#intellect

[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

My words and my ideas are my property, and I’ll keep and protect them as surely as I do my stable of unicorns. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#intellectual-property #unicorns #funny

Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#attempt #believing #care #cosmology #cultural

Many people have observed that truth is stranger than fiction. This has led some intellectuals to conclude that it's stranger than non-fiction as well. ↗

— Brad Holland

#fiction #intellectuals #led #many #non-fiction

Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible. ↗

— Robert M. Hutchins

#education #expert #horizons #inflame #intellects

The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness. ↗

— Robert M. Hutchins

#college #cover #graduate #his #intellectual

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

Christ had given the apostles a world-wide commission, embracing all the nations; but intellectually they did not understand what He meant. They found that out as they followed the impulse of the Spirit. ↗

— Roland Allen

#christ #commission #did #embracing #followed