#intellect

The apostles were moved, not so much by an intellectual apprehension, as by a spiritual illumination. They met men, and the need of those men whom they met cried aloud to them. ↗

— Roland Allen

#apostles #apprehension #cried #illumination #intellectual

This intellectual Pearl Harbor, a real gutsy sock to the stomach. ↗

— J. Allen Hynek

#intellectual #pearl #pearl harbor #real #sock

I was very intellectually oriented, very early on. ↗

— Donald Johanson

#i #intellectually #oriented #very

He had let me know time after time that he was a thinking man, a man of intellect and wit. Yet one unintended hungry look into my eyes and he betrayed each of his words he had carefully spoken to me. I knew it in that instant. He was a viscerally driven man. And one day, he would possess me. ↗

— Coco J. Ginger

#intellect #jamie-weise #love #love-story #possess

The pen is mightier than the sword unless it's a real sword in which case the guy with the pen should run away fast. ↗

— Roger Eschbacher

#practicality-for-intellectuals #swords #writing #humor

Intellectuals are useless, and as a pseudo-intellectual I can't help but envy the practicality of that. ↗

— Bauvard

#humor #pseuso-intellectuals #uselessness #funny

Intellect is a part of a good faith. Intellect is the light, the heart is the direction. ↗

— Tariq Ramadan

#intellect #faith

There is nothing that an intellectual less likes to change than his mind, or a politician his policy. ↗

— Theodore Dalrymple

#intellectuals #polticians #change

Zealots are like one track-pony. Don't get in their way without expecting to get hurt. ↗

— Patricia Briggs

#practicality-for-intellectuals #truth-telling #inspirational

What is more tragic than to see a person who has risen to the disciplined heights of tough-mindedness but has at the same time sunk to the passionless depths of hard-heartedness? ↗

— Martin Luther King Jr.

#inspirational #intellect #love #mind #inspirational