#intellectual

The intellectual who wants to do her work properly must today go back to the starting point: the woman whom she knows, and first of all to herself. It is at that level, and at no other, that she ought to begin to think about the world situation. ↗

— Jacques Ellul

#back #begin #first #first of all #go

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana. ↗

— Bill Gates

#intellectual #intellectual property #life #property #shelf

It's very lonely being a prominent black intellectual at an institution where you're the only prominent black intellectual. That was the model that was followed in the late 60s when black studies started. You'd get one here and one there and one here, like Johnny Appleseed. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#black #followed #get #here #institution

We started this mostly from an intellectual place. ↗

— Melinda Gates

#mostly #place #started

The more we can do to support and promulgate the intellectual traditions of the Abrahamic faiths - of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - the better armed we will be to fight fundamentalism. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#better #christianity #faiths #fight #fundamentalism

Extremists often derive their inspiration from literal interpretations of texts that should rightly be read not as Associated Press reports from the ancient world, but as theological and literary enterprises requiring independent intellectual assessment. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#assessment #associated #derive #enterprises #extremists

I've become so earthy. And I never was earthy. I'm doing all kinds of different roles which are not at all like the intellectual and the legal mind of Ben Stone. ↗

— Michael Moriarty

#ben #different #different roles #doing #i

Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of historians; much more than that it does not expect, nor often get. ↗

— Samuel E. Morison

#countries #does #expect #expected #free

When I start writing songs and it turns into an overly belabored intellectual process, I just throw it out. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#intellectual #into #just #out #overly

It's been mentioned or suggested that Paradise will not be well studied, because it's about this unimportant intellectual topic, which is religion. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#because #been #intellectual #mentioned #paradise