#intellectual

Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis. ↗

— John Dewey

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My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his intellectual freedom. ↗

— Franz Boas

#allowing #ceremonial #emotional #father #freedom

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#intellectual #knows #man #more #necessary

Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#civil #intellectual #more #reading #resigned

The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance. ↗

— Robert Bork

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Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic concept. ↗

— Robert Bork

#commands #concept #fashion #intellectual #law

Words are the children of reason and, therefore, can't explain it. They really can't translate feeling because they're not part of it. That's why it bugs me when people try to analyze jazz as an intellectual theorem. It's not. It's feeling. ↗

— Bill Evans

#because #bugs #children #explain #feeling

In 1995, I founded The Molecular Sciences Institute with a gift from the Philip Morris Company where I hoped that we could create an environment where young people could pursue science in an atmosphere of harmonious purpose and high intellectual challenge. ↗

— Sydney Brenner

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A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction. ↗

— Rita Mae Brown

#fight #intellectually #life #must #reaction

Steve Martin is one of the most intelligent, well-read human beings that I've ever come across. He is equally as funny off screen as he is on. But he also has a very intellectual side, and he's a really nice human being. We actually become good friends. ↗

— Anthony LaPaglia

#actually #also #become #being #beings