#intellectual

If only everyone could know and live with their inner craziness. Would the world be a worse place for it? No, people would be fairer and happier. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#insanity #intellectual #self-help #freedom

An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts. ↗

— Albert Camus

#intelligence #philosophy #scholars #intelligence

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#intellectual #interpretation #revenge #upon

Some people have theorized that I lurched to prove myself intellectually. But it was not any lurch. It was more a kind of awakening. ↗

— Jack Kemp

#awakening #i #intellectually #kind #more

After my mom died, there was so much written about her fashion and her style and all that, and I felt that one of the most important parts of her was missing, her real intellectual curiosity. ↗

— Caroline Kennedy

#after #curiosity #died #fashion #felt

Education was the most important value in our home when I was growing up. People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history. ↗

— Caroline Kennedy

#growing #growing up #home #i #important

People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history. ↗

— Caroline Kennedy

#curiosity #history #intellectual #intellectual curiosity #love

Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#activity #basis #body #creative #dynamic

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward. ↗

— John Maynard Keynes

#any #avoidance #carries #intellectual #only

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

#cling #coin #condition #empty #enthusiasm