#intellect

I came up during the 'Star Wars' generation and that was sort of the thing I plugged into much more. It was a little before my time and I think it was sort of grappling with these intellectual ideas that were a little advanced for my young mind. At the time. But now I have a much deeper appreciation for it. ↗

— Zachary Quinto

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If we look into ourselves we discover propensities which declare that our intellects have arisen from a lower form; could our minds be made visible we should find them tailed. ↗

— William Winwood Reade

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If I had to choose criteria, for me, it's about first the director. I want to be a part of something that's good and intellectually challenging. After the director it's the character and the story. That's the deal for me. ↗

— Giovanni Ribisi

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Conservatism has had from its inception vigorously positive, intellectually rigorous agenda and thinking. That agenda should have in my three pillars: strengthen the economy, strengthen our security, and strengthen our families. ↗

— Mitt Romney

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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

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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

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From the lowest animals of which we can affirm intelligence up to man this type of intellect is found. ↗

— Edward Thorndike

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Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals. ↗

— Edmund Wilson

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