#intellectual

I'm not an intellectual composer. ↗

— Les Baxter

#i #intellectual

To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them. ↗

— Jacob Bronowski

#being #intellectual #issues #knowing #me

To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is. ↗

— Dick Cavett

#label #me #misunderstanding

If a large city can, after intense intellectual efforts, choose for its mayor a man who merely will not steal from it, we consider it a triumph of the suffrage. ↗

— Frank Moore Colby

#choose #city #consider #efforts #intellectual

No society lies nearer to the cyclonic path of the forces of world change than the United States, and few societies are more intellectually aware of the nature of the issues that have to be faced. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

#change #faced #few #forces #intellectually

I like John Kerry. I think he's intellectually curious and very thoughtful. I think he's deeply committed on issues like the environment. I think he's an internationalist, which I am. ↗

— Howard Dean

#committed #curious #deeply #environment #i

I've always been inspired by artists who have shown musical and intellectual curiosity and the courage to take risks. ↗

— Renee Fleming

#artists #been #courage #curiosity #i

I believe in prophetic speech . . . still. I believe in Cassandra, I believe in Electra and in the charming Antigone. . . . For me, they’re more alive than the [Institute for] Intellectual Cooperation and its choice group of old men. ↗

— Gabriella Mistral

#intellectual #men

Idealism, though just in its premises, and often daring and honest in their application, is stultified by the exclusive intellectualism of its own methods: by its fatal trust in the squirrel-work of the industrious brain instead of the piercing vision of the desirous heart. It interests man, but does not involve him in its processes: does not catch him up to the new and more real life which it describes. Hence the thing that matters, the living thing, has somehow escaped it; and its observations bear the same relation to reality as the art of the anatomist does to the mystery of birth. ↗

— Evelyn Underhill

#intellectualism #mysticism #art

Intellect is not wisdom. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#society #intellect