There's guilt about our treatment of native peoples in modern intellectual life, and an unwillingness to acknowledge there could be anything good about Western culture.
My parents were both very intellectually honest, straightforward, and for them, faith meant that you were fully engaged.
Tell me I'm beautiful, it's nothing. Tell me I'm intellectual - I know it. Tell me I'm funny, and it's the greatest compliment in the world anyone could give me.
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
The liberal professions, and in a wider sense the well-to-do classes, are certainly those with the liveliest taste for knowledge and the most active intellectual life.
Greed probably figures in my intellectual life as well, as I attempt to absorb a massive amount of information with consequent mental indigestion.
The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
Something about the cultural tradition of Jews is way, way more sympathetic to science and learning and intellectual pursuits than Islam.
There is always a strong need for self-education during and after school education. Education is a never-ending process of intellectual growth.
Yeah, the New York Times is very intellectual and very, very prestigious, but it doesn't reach the market that People magazine does.
The intellectual evolution of the race consists in an increase in the number, delicacy, complexity, permanence and speed of formation of such associations.
There are some remarks that are so stupid that to be even vaguely aware of them is the intellectual equivalent of living next door to Chernobyl.
To force oneself to believe and to accept a thing without understanding is political, and not spiritual or intellectual.
I don't really get into a big intellectual analysis of why I am going to do a certain script or not.
Common sense implies a cup of wisdom, a dash of discernment, and a dollop of intellectual acumen that's blended clean and translucent.
Certainly the party counts a considerable number of intellectuals among its members, but I am by no means disposed to apologise for that.
I say that I represent this movement because my intellectual allegiances are clearly European, not African.
An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.
When the mind is distressed, the flow of inspiration will be distorted, intellectual faculties will be affected and unexpected confusion/problem will appear
There is no reasonable doubt that existentialism will soon become the predominant philosophical current among bourgeois intellectuals." (1949)
What's exciting about theatre is observing human behaviour. You're constantly making judgments about body language, the physical, the emotional, the intellectual.
