#intellectual

Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument. ↗

— George Sand

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I'm not known for my intellectual range and tricks have been played on me. ↗

— William Sanderson

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One day I heard a speech of Hitler. In this speech he said that the German factory worker and the German labourer must make common cause with the German intellectual worker. ↗

— Fritz Sauckel

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One of the great intellectual failures of the American intelligence community, and especially the counterterrorism community, is to assume if someone hasn't attacked us, it's because he can't or because we've defeated him. ↗

— Michael Scheuer

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Intellectual comradeship requires that you think your thoughts through to the place where you can make the complex seem simple, the obscure quite clear. ↗

— David Seabury

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Berkeley had a liberal element in the student body who tended to be quite active. I think that's in general a feature of intellectually active places. ↗

— John Searle

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Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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Science as an intellectual exercise enriches our culture, and is in itself ennobling. ↗

— Henry Taube

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This intellectual Pearl Harbor, a real gutsy sock to the stomach. ↗

— J. Allen Hynek

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I was very intellectually oriented, very early on. ↗