#intellect

I don't like comedy that I think is bad comedy, where people are trying to be sick for the sake of it, where there's no intellectual point behind it. I like stuff that's got an underlying point of view. ↗

— Steve Coogan

#behind #comedy #got #i #i think

We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen. ↗

— Calvin Coolidge

#more #need #power #seen #spiritual

If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture. ↗

— Brian Eno

#believe #big #decide #forget #hurdle

What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them. ↗

— Henry Ford

#although #america #capacity #great #intellect

My wife and I, unlike many intellectuals, spent five years working on assembly lines. We came to fully understand the criticisms of the industrial age, in which you are an appendage of a machine that sets the pace. ↗

— Alvin Toffler

#appendage #assembly #came #criticisms #five

I am certainly not an intellectual relativist, nor a moral relativist. ↗

— Edward Tufte

#certainly #i #i am #intellectual #moral

I hope that I am generous and tolerant, but certainly on the intellectual side I think that there are discoverable truths, and some things that are closer approximations to the truth than others. ↗

— Edward Tufte

#approximations #certainly #closer #discoverable #generous

In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention. ↗

— Simone Weil

#humility #intellectual #less #more #nor

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#eye #fix #intellectual #may #mind

I know I've got a degree. Why does that mean I have to spend my life with intellectuals? I've got a lifesaving certificate but I don't spend my evenings diving for a rubber brick with my pyjamas on. ↗

— Victoria Wood

#certificate #degree #diving #does #evenings