#intellect

I think there's a natural system in your own head about how much violence the scene warrants. It's not an intellectual process, it's an instinctive process. ↗

— Guy Ritchie

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I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing. ↗

— Richard Rorty

#books #history #history books #i #i think

Cultivate the frontal portion of her brain as much as that of man is cultivated, and she will stand his equal at least. Even now, where her mind has been called out at all, her intellect is as bright, as capacious, and as powerful as his. ↗

— Ernestine Rose

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The few bright meteors in man's intellectual horizon could well be matched by women, were she allowed to occupy the same elevated position. ↗

— Ernestine Rose

#bright #could #elevated #few #horizon

She was short on intellect, but long on shape. ↗

— George Ade

#long #shape #she #short

I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense. ↗

— Harold Brodkey

#another #duties #her #his #i

Creeds and castes, and all forms of intellectual and emotional grouping, belong to the past. ↗

— Herbert Read

#creeds #emotional #forms #grouping #intellectual

In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits. ↗

— Robert Hall

#fixing #habits #intellectual #lies #most

It's obvious, but perhaps worth saying, that happiness has virtually nothing to do with the state of your intellect. ↗

— Daniel Keys Moran

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Most blacks will argue that they excel because of hard work, because of intellect, determination, sweat, blood, tears and risk. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#because #blacks #blood #determination #excel