#intellectual

I studied economics and made it my career for two reasons. The subject was and is intellectually fascinating and challenging, particularly to someone with taste and talent for theoretical reasoning and quantitative analysis. ↗

— James Tobin

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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

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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

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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

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

— Robert M. Pirsig

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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

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Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat. ↗

— Mary Renault

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I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing. ↗

— Richard Rorty

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The few bright meteors in man's intellectual horizon could well be matched by women, were she allowed to occupy the same elevated position. ↗

— Ernestine Rose

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The intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics. ↗