I have always wanted to be a man, if only for the reason that I would like to have gauged the value of my intellect.

It's obvious, but perhaps worth saying, that happiness has virtually nothing to do with the state of your intellect.

You can't surprise LeBron any more. He's such a smart player. His intellect has caught up with his athletic ability.

There is not enough high intellect to be catered to and when most people think of Hiphop they think of low intellect.

I imagined my fantasy co-author would look like Miranda Kerr, but have the intellect and comedic timing of Liz Lemon.

I don't dare postulate about science, but I know that it takes both emotion and intellect in order for art to happen.

There is nothing more perplexing in life than to know at what point you should surrender your intellect to your faith.

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.

The University conceives of itself as dedicated to the power of the intellect. Its commitment is to the way of reason.

I find you want me to furnish you with argument and intellects too. No, sir, these, I protest you, are too hard for me.

I've always believed in instinct over intellect. The instinct is what you always knew; intellect is what you figure out.

I was impressed by the capability and talent and intellect of our troops on the ground. These kids are really impressive.

My intellect was quickened at divinity school, and my abilities to discern were strengthened, and that's always valuable.

I have huge respect for the musical aptitude and intellect of listeners in India. They appreciate genuine, quality music.

My home nurtured in me an early attachment to books and other things of the intellect, to music, and to the out of doors.

The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.

Intellect helps us to see the best means and manner of doing the right thing, but intellect never shows us the right thing.

I aspire to a poetry of great formal integrity, deep passion and high intellect, and I have many models for how to do that.

Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.

I think Marilyn Manson has a better take on America than Michael Moore and I don't think he's appreciated for his intellect.

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.

Most blacks will argue that they excel because of hard work, because of intellect, determination, sweat, blood, tears and risk.

Some people, however long their experience or strong their intellect, are temperamentally incapable of reaching firm decisions.

When I was a child . . . Only virtue was prized, virtue at the expense of intellect, health, happiness, and every mundane good.

The abstract, unreal freedom of the liberal intellect was really nothing more than childish disobedience, amplified into anarchy.

The person most qualified to tell the tale of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is the man himself, as gifted an intellect as he is an athlete.

A magazine or a newspaper is a shop. Each is an experiment and represents a new focus, a new ratio between commerce and intellect.

Because of our sacred regard for each human intellect, we consider the obtaining of an education to be a religious responsibility.

Let the intellect alone, it has its usefulness in its proper sphere, but let it not interfere with the flowing of the life-stream.

There is no capital more useful than intellect and wisdom, and there is no indigence more injurious than ignorance and unawareness.

People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect.

America's fine, nice, nice hiking near L.A. But I am European. I love London and Paris. Friends and intellect, big thought, why not?

I've always been a fan of physical comedy. It kind of hits you in a different way; it bypasses the intellect and hits you in the gut.

I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I must send an army into the darkness to find the spear. That is intellect.

I'm an extreme do'er - I'm not an intellect; I'm not a bookworm. I do, do, do, and nine times out of ten, I fail, but I learn from that.

Many of the best teachers I know are being laid off because their unions value seniority over intellect, passion, creativity, and drive.

The intellect is a cold thing and a merely intellectual idea will never stimulate thought in the same manner that a spiritual idea does.

There's nothing more special than intellect and labour that makes painting work. There's no magic there; it's information, and it's work.

A job letter, an interview - even a writing sample - have far less to do with intellect and far more to do with aesthetics than you think.

I know you shouldn't spit in your own soup but I think most crime writing is like TV and doesn't make enormous demands on one's intellect.

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.

I prefer my partner to have profound, deep intellect, a profound education, but where their education comes from is no preference of my own.

Art is great. At its best, it engages the intellect and challenges the spirit; it connects us across history and reminds us of our humanity.

I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.

I expect photographs to find me. I never thought of looking for them. I instinctively put them there. My intellect had nothing to do with it.

Unlike later Neo-Platonists, Plotinus says that our souls are always connected to the universal intellect and that we never really fall away.

F.D.R. achieved greatness not by means of imposing his temperament and intellect on the world but by reacting to what the world threw at him.

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