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#intellect

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #intellect




I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.


Randall Jarrell


#culture #definition #i #i think #intellectuals

The battle was first waged over the right of the Negro to be classed as a human being with a soul; later, as to whether he had sufficient intellect to master even the rudiments of learning; and today it is being fought out over his social recognition.


James Weldon Johnson


#being #classed #even #first #fought

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.


John Ruskin


#force #intellect #operation #passion #skill

The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.


Sallust


#eternal #fame #fleeting #fragile #glorious

Music has just as much to do with movement and body as it does soul and intellect.


Esa-Pekka Salonen


#does #intellect #just #movement #much

Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.


George Sand


#cling #coin #condition #empty #enthusiasm

I'm not known for my intellectual range and tricks have been played on me.


William Sanderson


#i #intellectual #known #me #played

One day I heard a speech of Hitler. In this speech he said that the German factory worker and the German labourer must make common cause with the German intellectual worker.


Fritz Sauckel


#common #common cause #day #factory #factory worker

Christianity is the greatest intellectual system the mind of man has ever touched.


Francis Schaeffer


#ever #greatest #intellectual #man #mind

One of the great intellectual failures of the American intelligence community, and especially the counterterrorism community, is to assume if someone hasn't attacked us, it's because he can't or because we've defeated him.


Michael Scheuer


#assume #attacked #because #community #counterterrorism






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