#intellectual

Greed probably figures in my intellectual life as well, as I attempt to absorb a massive amount of information with consequent mental indigestion. ↗

— Etty Hillesum

#amount #attempt #consequent #figures #greed

The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#education #facts #how #intellectual #learning

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power. ↗

— John Adams

#agent #choice #implies #intellectual #liberty

Intellectuals, academics, writers and poets were an important force in the early groups of volunteers. They had the means to get to Spain and were accustomed to travelling, whereas very few workers had left British shores. ↗

— Bill Alexander

#accustomed #british #early #few #force

Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now it's really bad because everything we've done is de-humanizing education. It's destroying the possibility of the teacher and the student having a warm, friendly, intellectual relationship. ↗

— William Glasser

#because #destroying #done #education #every

Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#cruelty #intellectual #kid #kind #perhaps

Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#affected #degree #high #high degree #independence

I'm a fake intellectual. ↗

— Adam Brody

#i #intellectual

The EU and the U.S. often work together to develop international standards. This is the case in fighting terrorism and transnational crime, advancing trade liberalization, and combating piracy and intellectual property violations. ↗

— John Bruton

#case #combating #crime #develop #eu

Punk rock really came out of N.Y. as a philosophy before the groups were ever recorded. I had a kind-of intellectual interest in the idea of creating a new scene that could be a grassroots thing. ↗

— Greg Ginn

#came #could #creating #ever #grassroots