#intellect

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#compose #decent #differences #how #intellect

Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#civil #intellectual #more #reading #resigned

The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance. ↗

— Robert Bork

#believe #classes #highly #influential #intellectual

Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic concept. ↗

— Robert Bork

#commands #concept #fashion #intellectual #law

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. ↗

— William Falconer

#endowed #feel #forgo #god #i

These people being of a sharp and acute intellect, and gifted with a rich and powerful understanding, excel in whatever studies they pursue, and are more quick and cunning than the other inhabitants of a western clime. ↗

— Giraldus Cambrensis

#being #clime #cunning #excel #gifted

I would say that, intellectually, Catholicism had no more impact on me than did social theory. ↗

— Paul Farmer

#did #had #i #impact #intellectually

We are united in the hope that every individual will someday enjoy at least the intellectual privileges we have had, if not always the material advantages. ↗

— Sidney Altman

#always #enjoy #every #had #hope

I think I have an inner confidence that my tastes are pretty simple, that what I find funny finds a wide audience. I'm not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts. And I'm certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions. ↗

— Rowan Atkinson

#aware #certainly #clever #confidence #creative