These stories about my intellectual capacity really get under my skin. You know, for a while I even thought my staff believed… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
She tended to be impatient with that sort of intellectual who, for all his brilliance, has never been able to arrive at… — Carolyn Kizer Copy Share Image
There is an intellectual function in us which demands unity, connection and intelligibility from any material, whether of perception or thought, that… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Painting, like music, has nothing to do with the reproduction of nature, nor interpretation of intellectual meanings. Whoever is able to feel… — Hilla von Rebay Copy Share Image
I'm not one of the people who has a kind of scholarly hat and writes in a certain way for an academic… — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
Lincoln was not an intellectual, but no one in 200 years understood the language of the King James Bible or learned Blackstone's… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
There's something about being cerebral, intellectual, and yet emotionally repressed [in being villain]. If you think someone's doing this [bad] stuff and… — Tom Hooper Copy Share Image
People think I hate Billy Martin. I don't. I hate some of the things he did. And I will say I don't… — Reggie Jackson Copy Share Image
There is a possibility in human minds of something mysterious as the night-wind, deep as the sea, calm as the stars, and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
But, if the knowledge of the occult powers of nature opens the spiritual sight of man, enlarges his intellectual faculties, and leads… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
First, Know well that Intellectuality is not intelligence. To be intellectual is to be phony; it is a pretending intelligence. It is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Novelists are perhaps the last people in the world to be entrusted with opinions. The nature of a novel is that it… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
For a woman ... to explore and express the fullness of her sexuality, her ambitions, her emotional and intellectual capacities, her social… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
It seems to me that making escapist films might be a better service to people than making intellectual ones and making films… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
The physical lot of surviving workers had notably improved, with unemployment insurance, social security, and the new health services, while their children's… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
He was a physically imposing presence - 6 feet tall and very broad in the shoulders - and an imposing intellectual presence… — Jack Hemingway Copy Share Image
I don't hate anybody. The Winklevi aren't suing me for intellectual property theft. They're suing me because for the first time in… — Mark Zuckerberg Copy Share Image
We have to move toward specificity, intelligence, facts, proof, and mutual affection. What I think people have to do now is be… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
[T]he more one is conscious of one's political bias, the more chance one has of acting politically without sacrificing one's aesthetic and… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Frederick Turner comes across in his poems as a man of impressively broad experience, intellectual brilliance, and originality. … He’s at his… — Richard Tillinghast Copy Share Image
I write to relieve an intellectual itch. I stumble across a hitherto neglected set of events, transformations, characters, or source materials from… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
Without the institution of slavery, civilization would never have been achieved, for no one could ever have done anything intellectual if he… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
We must understand that when a society undermines intellectual freedom for its own purposes it is absolutely morally bad, but when it… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Commentators who today talk of 'The Dark Ages' when faith instead of reason was said to ruthlessly rule, have for their animadversions… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
The felt unreliability of human experience brought about by the inhuman acceleration of historical change has led every sensitive modern mind to… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Intellectuals, who go after the crowd - have never been intellectuals. Intellectuals should either lead the crowd after themselves, or completely isolate… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
As for the Jews, their explanation of anti-Semitism is more characteristic yet. In addition to the usual cliche, "with hatred and savagery"… — A. C. Cuza Copy Share Image
Intellectuals are real and actuals who speak first to bare open and bring fore the burning matters factual before others can speak… — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image
I can't imagine a secular life, a spiritual life, an intellectual life, a physical life. I mean, we would be completely wrought… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I began demonstrating against serious culture. In hindsight, the actual course of events has been very humiliating for me, because no one… — Henry Flynt Copy Share Image
But ultimately what I was impressed by during my years in government was how much the intellectual climate and the prevailing intellectual… — Lawrence Summers Copy Share Image
Widespread intellectual and moral docility may be convenient for leaders in the short term, but it is suicidal for nations in the… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I don't really see what can be said about the role of faculty members, or universities, beyond the truisms voiced earlier, and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It is a difficult matter for man to realize the extreme importance of social discriminations which seem outwardly insignificant but which produce… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
As a militant feminist, I believe in complete equality with men: intellectual, professional, economic, social and sexual; they're all equally essential, and… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
I've noticed over the past years of my writerly life that women writers in particular are discouraged in cleverly disguised forms from… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
The development of artificial intelligence may well imply that man will relinquish his intellectual supremacy in favor of thinking machines. With oceans… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
There are branches of learning and education which we must study merely with a view to leisure spent in intellectual activity, and… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Protestantism includes every type of religious thought and organization from 'high church' Anglicanism to high-principled Quakerism, from ecstatic Methodism to relentlessly intellectual… — Lewis Browne Copy Share Image
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