#intellectual

In the end, there's something of the puritan work ethic about me that roles really must sustain me on an intellectual level. ↗

— Damian Lewis

#end #ethic #in the end #intellectual #level

I found university a little dispiriting. I thought I would enter the great halls of Plato, but instead I entered the halls of an intellectual sausage factory. I wanted to do something not on the main course, and chose the environment. ↗

— Bjorn Lomborg

#course #enter #entered #environment #factory

Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage - not intellectual courage, but just plain physical courage. ↗

— Walter Lord

#intellectual #just #me #once #personal

The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#between #bridge #difference #emotional #forms

Extremists often derive their inspiration from literal interpretations of texts that should rightly be read not as Associated Press reports from the ancient world, but as theological and literary enterprises requiring independent intellectual assessment. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#assessment #associated #derive #enterprises #extremists

I like intellectual journeys. ↗

— Christopher Meloni

#intellectual #journeys #like

I think Chris Rock at the Oscars was a great example. I thought that was intellectually hilarious. The Gap starts a war with Banana Republic... That to me was funny. ↗

— Christopher Meloni

#chris #chris rock #example #funny #gap

Cynicism is intellectual dandyism. ↗

— George Meredith

#intellectual

In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#both #both sides #correct #debates #deny

I've become so earthy. And I never was earthy. I'm doing all kinds of different roles which are not at all like the intellectual and the legal mind of Ben Stone. ↗

— Michael Moriarty

#ben #different #different roles #doing #i