#intellectual

Chess is intellectual gymnastics. ↗

— Wilhelm Steinitz

#gymnastics #intellectual

To spend this particular year reading essays to Dennis Robertson as one's supervisor, and, simultaneously, enjoying membership of the group round Keynes was indeed an intellectual treat. ↗

— James Meade

#enjoying #essays #group #indeed #intellectual

So-called intellectuals conceptualize love; fools just love. Fools breathe air; intellectuals (so called) breathe ego. ↗

— Saurabh Sharma

#fools #humor #intellectuals-inspiration #love #motivation

I cleaned the shit off my pink high-tops and drove home, stopping for an espresso at the coffeehouse across from the college. Men and women were hunched over copies of Jean Paul Sartre and writing in their journals. Most wore the thin-rimmed tortoiseshell glasses favored by intellectuals. Their clothes were faded to a precisely fashionable degree; you can buy them that way from catalogs now, new clothes processed to look old. The intellectuals looked at me in my overalls the way such people inevitably look at farmers. I dumped a lot of sugar in my espresso and sipped it delicately at a corner table near the door. I looked at them the way farmers look at intellectuals. ↗

— Mary Rose O'Reilley

#coffee #farmers #fashion #intellectuals #spirituality

A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. ↗

— Freeman John Dyson

#intellectual #science #design

There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence. ↗

— Philip James Bailey

#cold #excellence #highest #intellectual #mark

The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers. ↗

— Benjamin Banneker

#connected #intellectual #mind #powers #skin

My emotional and intellectual response to Hiroshima was that the question of the social responsibility of a journalist was posed with greater urgency than ever. ↗

— Wilfred Burchett

#ever #greater #hiroshima #intellectual #journalist

Don't make art for other artists or for 'intellectuals', make art for people - and if you can touch just one person in a lifetime and make a difference - you have succeeded. ↗

— Ray Conniff

#artists #difference #intellectuals #just #just one

The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#doubt #height #intellectual #means #nervous