#intellectual

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

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#eye #fix #intellectual #may #mind

I know I've got a degree. Why does that mean I have to spend my life with intellectuals? I've got a lifesaving certificate but I don't spend my evenings diving for a rubber brick with my pyjamas on. ↗

— Victoria Wood

#certificate #degree #diving #does #evenings

I was unpopular at school just because I was an intellectual. I always answered all the questions off the top of my head but they nevertheless resented because of that. ↗

— George Woodcock

#answered #because #head #i #i always

Most of my choices come about through some kind of intuition or instinct, and if I need to, I'll post-rationalize them, intellectually, afterwards. But generally, they come about just by feeling. ↗

— Joe Wright

#afterwards #choices #come #feeling #generally

There are some remarks that are so stupid that to be even vaguely aware of them is the intellectual equivalent of living next door to Chernobyl. ↗

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

#door #equivalent #even #intellectual #living

Israel has created a new image of the Jew in the world - the image of a working and an intellectual people, of a people that can fight with heroism. ↗

— David Ben-Gurion

#fight #heroism #image #intellectual #israel

Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence. ↗

— David Ben-Gurion

#independence #intellectual #moral #national #without

For him to have understood me would have meant reorganizing his thinking... giving up his intellectual ballast, and few people are willing to risk such a radical move. ↗

— Edward T. Hall

#few #few people #giving #giving up #him

Eyes is the attempt to tell the story of the Civil Rights movement and to create an emotional, intellectual constituency. But what do you do after that? The black community doesn't have institutions that pick up such moments and preserve them. ↗

— Henry Hampton

#attempt #black #black community #civil #civil rights

The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#education #facts #how #intellectual #learning