#intellectual

By exploring the political and moral colorings of discoveries about what makes us tick, we can have a more honest science and a less fearful intellectual milieu. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#discoveries #exploring #fearful #honest #intellectual

I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#arts #believe #confusion #elite #endeavor

There's a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics, especially within the sphere of the arts and the theatre. ↗

— Harold Pinter

#arts #british #especially #force #gets

Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions. ↗

— Robert M. Pirsig

#direct experience #experience #independent #intellectual #prior

I had to be intellectually satisfied as well as emotionally because at that time of life one doesn't just fall into it in adolescent emotion, and I was satisfied at every point that it was the one way and the hard way to do things. ↗

— Ruth Pitter

#because #emotion #emotionally #every #fall

I had to satisfy the action fans, the romantic fans, the intellectual fans. It was a terrific burden. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

#burden #fans #had #i #intellectual

I shall suggest, on the contrary, that all communication relies, to a noticeable extent on evoking knowledge that we cannot tell, and that all our knowledge of mental processes, like feelings or conscious intellectual activities, is based on a knowledge which we cannot tell. ↗

— Michael Polanyi

#based #cannot #communication #conscious #contrary

I have spent a good part of my life showing what an intellectual bubble the Left lives in. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#good #i #intellectual #left #life

I'm strictly for Stevenson. I don't dig the intellectual bit, but I'm telling you, man, he knows the most. ↗

— Elvis Presley

#dig #i #intellectual #knows #man

It will be sufficient to point to the enormous burdens which armaments place on the economic, social, and intellectual resources of a nation, as well as on its budget and taxes. ↗

— Ludwig Quidde

#budget #burdens #economic #enormous #intellectual