#intellect

To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#devoted #exercise #intellectual #life #some

Intellectually I'm probably a Republican. ↗

— Sting

#intellectually #probably #republican

Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#culture #done #foreign #glories #human

We have three centers: the emotional center, the intellectual center, and the physical body center. Each one of them has its own intelligence. How much better would we be if all three were working in unison? ↗

— Erin Gray

#body #center #centers #each #emotional

This intellectual Pearl Harbor, a real gutsy sock to the stomach. ↗

— J. Allen Hynek

#intellectual #pearl #pearl harbor #real #sock

He had let me know time after time that he was a thinking man, a man of intellect and wit. Yet one unintended hungry look into my eyes and he betrayed each of his words he had carefully spoken to me. I knew it in that instant. He was a viscerally driven man. And one day, he would possess me. ↗

— Coco J. Ginger

#intellect #jamie-weise #love #love-story #possess

The pen is mightier than the sword unless it's a real sword in which case the guy with the pen should run away fast. ↗

— Roger Eschbacher

#practicality-for-intellectuals #swords #writing #humor

The acquisition of knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#knowledge #learning #love

Where instinct fails, intellect must venture. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#instinct #intellect #intellect

And not only the pride of intellect, but the stupidity of intellect. And, above all, the dishonesty, yes, the dishonesty of intellect. Yes, indeed, the dishonesty and trickery of intellect. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#dishonesty #intellect #pride #stupidity #tolstoy