Research shows that couples who have a lot of similarities, including intellectual compatibility, end up staying together.
Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.
The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.
The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other.
Within the confines of the lecture hall, no other virtue exists but plain intellectual integrity.
Greed probably figures in my intellectual life as well, as I attempt to absorb a massive amount of information with consequent mental indigestion.
High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered; they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make.
Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.
The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected.
Challenging unfairly subsidized products, fighting counterfeit goods and intellectual property theft and holding countries accountable for an unfair currency regime will help American companies remain competitive.
I have known people who are working class or craftsmen, who happen to be more intellectual than professors.
Creeds and castes, and all forms of intellectual and emotional grouping, belong to the past.
Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.
To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.
Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.
I'm calling the Cube, it's a piece of art. At the same time, it's an intellectual task as well.
Cynicism is intellectual treason.
There was no intellectual movement in American history called social Darwinism. The people who were supposedly the leaders of the social Darwinist movement never embraced something called social Darwinism. It didn't exist.
But it is one of these sort of mythologies about America and its intellectual history, that the right embraced this thing called social Darwinism, when it never did so.
It's not highly intellectual material. I'm dedicating it to the pulp fiction of the past.
