Quotes of: Intellectual-life Keyword

Confucianism is all about tempering your instincts with intellectual discipline, with book learning.

Brian Reynolds Myers

Your world is only as big as your intellectual level.

Edmond Mbiaka

In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits.

Robert Hall

Judaism is an intellectually based religion, and the single most important theme is that of study.

Norman Lamm

Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal.

Sarah Bernhardt

Only here, because of the illusion of intellectualism, our society separates the validity of human expression.

Joseph Jarman

Anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the businessman.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

It's not the most intellectual job in the world, but I do have to know the letters.

Vanna White

I'm not known for my intellectual range and tricks have been played on me.

William Sanderson

You can be a smarty-pants director, but that won't matter if the movie doesn't work emotionally as well as intellectually.

Todd Haynes

Who am I? What am I doing here? Who are these others? This trilogy of spiritual conundrums is as practical as it is philosophical. Mindful inquiry devoted to these three questions is as spiritual as it is material and as obvious as it is unanswerable...

Beyond Belief: Agnostic Musings for 12 Step Life: Finally, a Daily Reflection Book for Nonbelievers, Freethinkers and Everyone

Their words also make it a lot easier for people to justify that shift -- to convince themselves that surfing the Web is a suitable, even superior, substitute for deep reading and other forms of calm and attentive thought. In arguing that books are a...

The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains

I was starting to wonder if I was ready to be a writer, not someone who won prizes, got published and was given the time and space to work, but someone who wrote as a course of life. Maybe writing wouldn't have any rewards. Maybe the salvation I woul...

Truth and Beauty

When Benjamin Franklin, the famous inventor and publisher, was serving as the American ambassador to France, he often impressed French intellectual with the wisdom of his remarks. At one dinner, the question was raised, "What human condition deserves...

How to Make Your Child a Reader for Life

[L]ike people, ideas have social lives. They’re one way when they’re by themselves, and another when they’re surrounded by their peers. Crammed together, they grow more uncertain, more interesting, more surprising; they come out of themselves a...

Joshua Rothman

The outcome of insane parents is either a murderer or an intellectual.

LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS

I'm an intellectual, but I've always had jobs that required physical labor above all else.

Niall Matter

Being at the top of your game intellectually, philosophically, politically, is not a forever thing.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

When you make a decision to forgive it's a decision that you have to make intellectually.

T. D. Jakes

Make no mistake about it: Law school is not a bastion of intellectual discourse.

Tucker Max

The general intellectual level of South Florida is somewhere just above "functionally retarded".

Tucker Max