Pick up a grain a day and add to your heap. You will soon learn, by happy experience, the power of littles as applied to intellectual processes and gains.
If you get into a fight and somebody punches you, you get two feelings. One: That really hurts. Two: That relief in the realness of, like, Wow, this is what it is. It's not an intellectual process.
Education should therefore include the two forms of work, manual and intellectual, for the same person, and thus make it understood by practical experience that these two kinds complete each other and are equally essential to a civilized existence.
To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of eternal things; to knowledge, the rational knowledge of temporal things.
Whether it's a popcorn movie or some really intellectual sociopolitical movie, I think to some degree they're all influenced by the social climate that we're living in.
I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
To accomplish artistic work, of any individual worth, nature must be seen through the medium of the artist's intellectual emotions.
There is no intellectual or emotional substitute for the authentic, the original, the unique masterpiece.
Some are born great, others achieve greatness.
. . . writing fiction. . . is no job for intellectual cowards.
Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
Men and women are so alike that a woman must make an intellectual effort to differentiate herself. As soon as one understands who one is, one can disguise oneself any way one wants. As soon as one has found one's look, one's shape, one does not need to alter it too much, in fact I would say that one should not change it.
The price of these failures has been a loss of moral consensus, a greater sense of helplessness about the human condition. . . . The intellectual solution to the first dilemma can be achieved by a deeper and more courageous examination of human nature that combines the findings of biology with those of the social sciences.
Gingrich is the "foremost intellectual" in the Republican party like Gene Simmons is the foremost intellectual in "Kiss".
The rapists of the intellectual world become politicians; the seducers become artists.
I consider it important, indeed urgently necessary, for intellectual workers to get together, both to protect their own economic status and, also, generally speaking, to secure their influence in the political field.
But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins.
I see by the papers that you have once more stirred that pool of intellectual stagnation, the educational convention.
Haitians weren't screwed-up, but everything political, intellectual, and material around them is.