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Last updated on October 13, 2024.
I was surprised. I'd always associated belief in heaven with, frankly, a kind of intellectual disengagement. But Gus wasn't dumb.
In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.
Liberal Christians are distinguished by how much moral and intellectual ground they can concede to the adversaries of Christianity.
Every intellectual product must be judged from the point of view of the age and the people in which it was produced.
Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties.
The intellectual and social climate needed to allow entrepreneurship to thrive will not exist in advanced capitalism.
I was a sort of New York intellectual when I was 16. I wanted to dress like Annie Hall when I was 18.
It is the opposite of ignorance—it is intellectual honesty: to be willing to accept reality and to call things what they are even when it is hard.
We cannot pursue a classical and Christian education as a fad. We are not purchasing intellectual hula hoops for the kids.
Observation and experiment for gathering material, induction and deduction for elaborating it: these are are only good intellectual tools.
Men are not narrow in their intellectual interests by nature; it takes special and rigorous training to accomplish that end.
It befuddles me why I was offered so many intense, intellectual movies when I don't take myself seriously.
Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal.
It is only through the opposition of ideas that we can learn to be self-critical, to work towards intellectual humility.
Transparency is not the same as looking straight through a building: it's not just a physical idea, it's also an intellectual one.
I don't know much, but nor do I have the intellectual straitjacket that a lot of people inevitably pick up at university.
The goal of intellectual life should be to see and understand what is true, not merely to adhere to a prevailing orthodoxy.
The intellectual is an individual with a specific public role in society that cannot be reduced simply to . . a faceless professional.
There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.
We represent the only efficient moral, intellectual and political force capable of saving human civilization.
For a man of my generation, our century has been a long intellectual and political struggle in favor of freedom.
The contraction of theological influence has been at once the best measure, and the essential condition of intellectual advance.
It's really funny seeing all these media depictions of me as an intellectual because I'm a connoisseur of low culture.
What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!
When I was growing up, to be an emcee meant to write the most clever, intellectual, and wittiest rap. And that's what we did.
Calculus is the outcome of a dramatic intellectual struggle which has lasted for twenty-five hundred years.
The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective.
Curiosity, especially intellectual inquisitiveness, is what separates the truly alive from those who are merely going through the motions.
More people are working in jobs that are interactive technology based or find a basis in intellectual property.
My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.
Intellectual capital is the main determining factor and the base for economic and social development to any country.
We bring together the best ideas - turning the meetings of our top managers into intellectual orgies.
Distress at losing an object can be as much a frustration at the intellectual mystery of the disappearance as about the loss itself.
I've always been inspired by artists who have shown musical and intellectual curiosity and the courage to take risks.
In 2009, the American Library Association recorded 460 challenges reported to the Office of Intellectual Freedom.
Literary criticism is generally bunk. Nonsense. Usually based on self-serving post-intellectual bullshit.
People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.
The game of chess is the most fascinating and intellectual pastime which the wisdom of antiquity has bequeathed to us.
The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value.
It is very rare in the life of an intellectual to see your support network show up all at once.
Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.
Deal honestly and objectively with yourself; intellectual honesty and personal courage are the hallmarks of great character.
The production of a work of art is determined by the material and intellectual climate in which a man lives and dies.
Owning pipelines, people, products, or even intellectual property is no longer the key to success. Openness is.
An abyss seems to have opened between the intellectual cosmopolites of culture and the people, hungry for word and meaning.
There's a weird intellectual approach to filmmaking, where I pose a question to myself and use the film to try and answer it.
When your thoughts and opinions become intellectual gods in rebellion against the Word of God, you are in idolatry.
You know, albums are a funny thing. They're not like an intellectual decision. It's a collection of your kind of musings.
It is almost an intellectual tradition to pay heed to the insane. In my case those that I most respect are the morons.
When I start writing songs and it turns into an overly belabored intellectual process, I just throw it out.
I don't want the whole of my writing or my intellectual energy given over to race because I have diverse interests.
Whether the person should then be called "an intellectual" seems to reduce the issue to a question of terminology.
The information revolution has changed wealth. Intellectual capital is far more important than money.
It is in the intellectual and emotional response, the conscious and subconscious associations of the artist, that the potential power of painting lies.
Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.
Christianity becomes just a set of things you believe in. It's almost an intellectual kind of abstract issue.
Intellectual liberty is the air of the soul, the sunshine of the mind, and without it, the world is a prison, the universe is a dungeon.
Cultivate an intellectual habit of subordinating one's opinions and wishes to objective evidence and a reverence for things as they really are.
I set it down as a maxim, that it is good for a man to live where he can meet his betters, intellectual and social.
There was not an awareness of pop culture in the household. There was a lot of respect for working hard, and for intellectual and professional achievement.
