Quotes about Intellectually

Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country. Votes: 4

I've always been more comfortable making my decisions from the subconscious level, or more emotionally, because I find it is more truthful to me; Intellectually, I don't think like that because I get uncomfortable. Votes: 4

Intellectually I'm probably a Republican. Votes: 3

Intellectually, I loved my job, but I didn’t get any meaning from it, Votes: 3

How am I immature? Intellectually, emotionally, and sexually. Yeah, but in what other ways? Votes: 3

Intellectually, the Republican idea deserves the tolerance and respect one gives to the dead. Votes: 3

Intellectually, most people never wash. They never free their minds of the accumulated rubbish of centuries. Votes: 3

Intellectually, I know I am worthy, however arbitrary a thing worthiness is, and have always been worthy. Votes: 3

It is not in the gene of an Intellectually blinded person to experience the paradise in the writer's imagination. Votes: 3

Intellectually, I think everyone really knows that women are funny, but it's a weird thing that people keep trotting out. Votes: 3

Intellectually, as politically, the direction of all true progress is towards greater freedom, and along an endless succession of ideas. Votes: 3

Intellectually religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves readily to the current view of the world and consecrate it. Votes: 3

Do I remain a revolutionary? Intellectually -- without a doubt. But am I prepared to give my body to the struggle or even my comforts? This is what I puzzle about. Votes: 3

I have done very little in my life except go to school and work for the CIA. Intellectually I think I did everything I could. Emotionally you always think you should have something more. Votes: 3

Intellectually I'd love to play Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire Can't you just imagine me down in the streets yelling Stella! Stella! God, the critics would have a lot of fun with that one Votes: 3

Just as many smart people fail in the investment business as stupid ones. Intellectually active people are particularly attracted to elegant concepts, which can have the effect of distracting them from the simpler, more fundamental truths. Votes: 3

It's pretty popular today to say that everybody should learn to fail and that failure's a good thing. Intellectually, it's an obvious thing. But in fact, it gets conflated with another meaning of failure, so when we grow up as kids, failing in school was a really bad thing. Votes: 3

Intellectually, perspective [drawing] is a breakthrough, because here, for the first time, the physical space we live in is being depicted as ifit were an abstract, mathematical space. A less obvious innovation due to perspective is that here, for the first time, people are actually drawing pictures of infinities. Votes: 3

A people morally and intellectually equal to self-government must also be equal in self-defence. Votes: 2

When you make a decision to forgive it's a decision that you have to make intellectually. Votes: 2

Nostalgia is a very complicated subject for me. I'm attracted by nostalgia but I refuse it intellectually. Votes: 2

All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work. Votes: 2

I believe that an art exhibition can be engaging, fun and deeply intellectually satisfying and serious. These are not contradictory concepts in art. Votes: 2

You cannot be against embryonic stem cell research and be intellectually and therefore morally consistent, if you're not also against in vitro fertilization. Votes: 2

Conservative New Testament studies could also provide an intellectually satisfying alternative to German biblical criticism and to the liberal theology that accompanied it. Votes: 2

Not everyone realises that to write a really good piece of journalism is at least as demanding intellectually as the achievement of any scholar. Votes: 2

Political correctness is one of the engines of nannyism. Allowing and even encouraging 'offensive' ideas is vital for the intellectually health of a free society. Votes: 2

Poverty places not just one or two obstacles but multiple obstacles in a child's pathway to what we would consider to be regular development - cognitively, intellectually and emotionally. Votes: 2

I studied economics and made it my career for two reasons. The subject was and is intellectually fascinating and challenging, particularly to someone with taste and talent for theoretical reasoning and quantitative analysis. Votes: 2

I am an English major in school with an emphasis in creative writing. I think hearing Maya Angelou speak at school last year was one of the best moments Stanford, at least, intellectually, had to offer. Votes: 2

I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn't have to choose. And I believe that's always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately. Votes: 2

No doubt, corporate CEOs who lie to their shareholders and politicians who lie to their public know and believe intellectually that lying is immoral. Why then do they lie? They lie to others because they first lie to themselves. Votes: 2

The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land, to add something to the extent and the solidity of our possessions. Votes: 2

For those who struggle with anti-pagan prejudices and stereotypes, Humanist Paganism might be a powerful educational tool. It can show that a pagan can be a sophisticated, cosmopolitan, and enlightened person, and that a pagan culture can be artistically vibrant, environmentally conscious, intellectually stimulating, and socially just. Votes: 2

It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing... if you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you've got it half-made. I mean intellectually. Votes: 2

Husbands, recognize your wife's intelligence and her ability to counsel with you as a real partner regarding family plans, family activities, and family budgeting. Don't be stingy with your time or with your means. Give her the opportunity to grow intellectually, emotionally, and socially as well as spiritually. Votes: 2

If a man can make me laugh and stimulate me intellectually, then I wouldn't mind if he was 4 ft. 8 in. with a huge belly. The only thing that would put me off is bad breath - but even that can be fixed. A bad personality isn't so easy to fix. Votes: 2

Athletes and musicians make astronomical amounts of money. People get paid $100 million to throw a baseball! Shouldn't we all take less and pass some of that money onto others? Think about firefighters, teachers and policemen. We should celebrate people that are intellectually smart and trying to make this world a better place. Votes: 2

The success of the suffrage movement would injure women spiritually and intellectually, for they would be assuming a burden though they knew themselves unable to bear it. It is the sediment, not the wave, of a sex. It is the antithesis of that highest and sweetest mystery - conviction by submission, and conquest by sacrifice. Votes: 2

What is the meaning of 'gossip?' Doesn't it originate with sympathy, an interest in one's neighbor, degenerating into idle curiosity and love of tattling? Which is worse, this habit, or keeping one's self so absorbed intellectually as to forget the sufferings and cares of others, to lose sympathy through having too much to think about? Votes: 2

Fear and euphoria are dominant forces, and fear is many multiples the size of euphoria. Bubbles go up very slowly as euphoria builds. Then fear hits, and it comes down very sharply. When I started to look at that, I was sort of intellectually shocked. Contagion is the critical phenomenon which causes the thing to fall apart. Votes: 2

I'm looking for a way out of here. I can't have it physically, so I'm going to have it intellectually. It was a beautiful thing to ride Seabiscuit in my imagination. And it's just fantastic to be there alongside Louie as he's breaking the NCAA mile record. People at these vigorous moments in their lives - it's my way of living vicariously. Votes: 2

Generalities are intellectually necessary evils. Votes: 0

A film engages you emotionally and intellectually. Votes: 0

I get overwhelmed when I approach things intellectually. Votes: 0

In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy. Votes: 0

Resiliency is not gender-, age-, or intellectually specific... Votes: 0

It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue. Votes: 0

Pragmatism is an intellectually safe but ultimately sterile philosophy. Votes: 0

Those [presidents] who were strongest intellectually were also strongest spiritually... Votes: 0

I only surround myself with people who are intellectually stimulating. Votes: 0

You have to change men physically before you change them intellectually. Votes: 0

We still need to feed the public, both physically and intellectually. Votes: 0

Root for the girls who wear dresses and are intellectually very strong. Votes: 0

Algebra and money are essentially levelers; the first intellectually, the second effectively. Votes: 0

No one can be as intellectually slothful as a really smart person Votes: 0

One can become as intellectually arrogant about spirituality as about empirical science. Votes: 0

It is conceivable that religion may be morally useful without being intellectually sustainable. Votes: 0

Chronologically she is twelve, but emotionally she is older, and intellectually older still. Votes: 0

Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison. Votes: 0

In backbends, one touches the body physically, mentally, intellectually, consciously and spiritually everywhere. Votes: 0

I like it to be visually powerful, intellectually elegant, and above all, timeless. Votes: 0

Being intellectually hospitable is a virtue that I bring into the interview space, Votes: 0

Empathy is intuitive, but it is also something you can work on intellectually. Votes: 0

There is no worse torture than knowing intellectually about love and the way. Votes: 0

I want to be a part of something that's good and intellectually challenging. Votes: 0

I'd say, probably, intellectually I've drawn as much from Judaism as any other faith. Votes: 0

One can believe intellectually in the efficacy of prayer and never do any praying. Votes: 0

Sociology seems to have missed every intellectually promising boat in the last half century. Votes: 0

Biblically sound, faithful, and intellectually satisfying theology that will . . . cure many current theological concerns. Votes: 0

I love reading fiction about people who are connecting intellectually. I find that exhilarating. Votes: 0

Your friend is intellectually honourable," Jimmy's mother would say. "He doesn't lie to himself. Votes: 0

The message of Islam asks you to be intellectually, spiritually, socially, and politically independent Votes: 0

Jarecki's 'Reagan' is a compellingly watchable and appropriately conflicted portrait...artfully nuanced and intellectually curious. Votes: 0

Agatha Christie's writing is incredibly skillful because her books are incredibly intellectually puzzling and challenging. Votes: 0

He was perceived to be intellectually promiscuous, a little too eager to please all groups. Votes: 0

Being at the top of your game intellectually, philosophically, politically, is not a forever thing. Votes: 0

To live is to have problems and to solve problems is to to grow intellectually. Votes: 0

I try to figure out - intellectually, philosophically, psychologically - what the experience of beauty is. Votes: 0

It's wonderful when music is intellectually stimulating. But ultimately it has to be a visceral experience. Votes: 0

Psychopaths know intellectually what is immoral they just don't have a feeling of immorality about it. Votes: 0

Judaism is an intellectually based religion, and the single most important theme is that of study. Votes: 0

I find value investing to be a stimulating, intellectually challenging, ever changing, and financially rewarding discipline Votes: 0

I would say that, intellectually, Catholicism had no more impact on me than did social theory. Votes: 0

Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. Votes: 0

The scientific argument advanced for intelligent design at the Dover trial, those arguments collapsed, scientifically and intellectually Votes: 0

All children should be loved, protected, nurtured --emotionally and intellectually-- respected, and never, under any circumstances, underestimated. Votes: 0

Where do the really best laughs come from? Terrific connections made intellectually, or terrific revelations made emotionally. Votes: 0

Education is the preparation of a child intellectually, emotionally, spiritually, and physically for life and for eternity. Votes: 0

The scientific argument advanced for intelligent design at the Dover trial, those arguments collapsed, scientifically and intellectually. Votes: 0

Children of polygamists besides being equally as bright and brighter intellectually, are much more healthy and strong. Votes: 0

Doing what has never been done before is intellectually seductive, whether or not we deem it practical. Votes: 0

My parents were both very intellectually honest, straightforward, and for them, faith meant that you were fully engaged. Votes: 0

There's a big difference between being able to explain religion intellectually and transforming that knowledge into spiritual experience. Votes: 0

No matter what that makes elastic - sharply, intellectually and sincerely, keep at bay it as noxious waste. Votes: 0

The business of schools is to design, create, and invent high-quality, intellectually demanding schoolwork that students find engaging. Votes: 0

[T]o argue that something is so because it is in the Bible is more than intellectually bankrupt. Votes: 0

One should not be too severe on English novels; they are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed. Votes: 0

Whenever people are being intellectually dishonest in debate, it is an implicit concession they have lost the fight Votes: 0

The United States survives so long as at least one of its major parties is politically and intellectually healthy. Votes: 0

We know intellectually that money can't buy happiness yet we spend and go into debt as if it does. Votes: 0

Sweeping, confident articles on the future seem to me, intellectually, the most disreputable of all forms of public utterance. Votes: 0

The world my children are growing up in is so much more sophisticated and exposed - emotionally, intellectually, sexually. Votes: 0

Although atheism might have been logically tenable before Darwin, Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist. Votes: 0

But investment in space stimulates society, it stimulates it economically, it stimulates it intellectually, and it gives us all passion. Votes: 0

It strikes me as being morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus. Votes: 0

You have to be intellectually honest with yourself and others. In my judgment, all great investors are seekers of truth. Votes: 0

As professional actors, it's our job to entertain our audiences while setting benchmarks for ourselves as well, creatively and intellectually. Votes: 0

The important question is whether [a theory] is true, not whether envisioning an alternative is too intellectually painful to bear. Votes: 0

I called Donald Trump a racist. Nobody that makes that charge is being intellectually honest, or else they're being intellectually lazy. Votes: 0

My deepest impulses are optimistic; an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect. Votes: 0

My deepest impulses are optimistic, an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect. Votes: 0

I really don't think we should dismiss a book because we feel messed about intellectually. Or emotionally. That's the writer's job! Votes: 0

I find it satisfying and intellectually stimulating to work with the intensity, brevity, balance and word play of the short story. Votes: 0

I often feel intellectually frustrated when I'm in a position where I'm not moving forward; when I'm not enquiring about something. Votes: 0

I'm talking about intellectually and emotionally challenging, but at the same time it's actually not that challenging. So there's this dichotomy. Votes: 0

The Commons is one of the most depressing and intellectually unstimulating places in the country. [On the state of British politics Votes: 0

The things that you know intellectually when you're young become internalized as you get older. You realize all those clichés. Votes: 0

I respect those who openly advocate for unlimited immigration to the United States. Open borders is an intellectually coherent, defensible position. Votes: 0

I think you are wrong, Basil, but I won't argue with you. It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue. Votes: 0

There is nothing that this age, from whatever standpoint we survey it, needs more, physically, intellectually, and morally, than thorough ventilation. Votes: 0

Hollywood movies are designed for 15-year-old youths from North Dakota who, intellectually speaking, are on equal terms with a British zoo animal. Votes: 0

A person who is inherently and intuitively curious is often intellectually and distinctly very serious towards his roles and responsibilities in life. Votes: 0

I’m not intellectually convinced that one-man, one-vote is the best. We practise it because that’s what the British bequeathed us Votes: 0

It appears the Kochs are among the most defensive billionaires, preferring the comfy confines of their callous and intellectually dishonest world view. Votes: 0

Training the intellect does not result in intelligence. Intelligence comes into being when one acts in perfect harmony, both intellectually and emotionally. Votes: 0

It's no secret that our nation's public universities want to transform American young people into a bunch of hyper-sensitive, intellectually-neutered cream puffs. Votes: 0

I'm preprogrammed emotionally and intellectually not to go down blind alleys. I don't waste the time. I automatically edit out whatever's impractical. Votes: 0

I feel that my job, as an artist, is to disturb the peace. And to disturb it intellectually, linguistically, politically and literally. Votes: 0

One of the hardest parts of writing is writing from the gut or the heart or something like that rather than intellectually. Votes: 0

A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction. Votes: 0

The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact. Votes: 0

I want the ethic of being independent and open-minded, having a lot of integrity, intellectually, to be part of anything I do. Votes: 0

Conservative New Testament studies could also provide an intellectually satisfying alternative to German biblical criticism and to the liberal theology that accompanied it Votes: 0

In a more intellectually rigorous age, I wouldn't be talked about as a satirist at all. I would just be a topical comedian. Votes: 0

I find that the hardest work in the world... is to persuade Easterners that growing up in the West is not intellectually crippling. Votes: 0

In a more intellectually rigorous age, I wouldn't be talked about as a satirist at all. I would just be a topical comedian." Votes: 0

I don't mind working, holding my ground intellectually, artistically; but as a woman, oh, God, as a woman I want to be dominated Votes: 0

I think it is really important to be in some way provocative -- either intellectually or viscerally -- in the films one makes. Votes: 0

I would like to make a building as intellectually driven as it is sculptural and as positive as it would be acceptable to hope. Votes: 0

Most contemporary fiction sucks. It's intellectually dishonest, often morally dishonest. It's cheap and easy. It pretends to be deep but is really quite shallow. Votes: 0

The intellectually sophisticated person is indifferent to all genuine individuality, because relationships and reactions result from it which cannot be exhausted with logical operations. Votes: 0

I would rather label the whole enterprise of setting a biological value upon groups for what it is: irrelevant, intellectually unsound, and highly injurious. Votes: 0

Every new generation believes its own period to be absolutely superior intellectually - greater than all past cultures yet equal among its modern cultures. Votes: 0

The ideas of things intellectually known pass into the substance of the intellect much more than do foods into the substance of the body. Votes: 0

Racing takes everything you've got -- intellectually, emotionally, physically -- and then you have to find about ten percent more and use that too. Votes: 0

I do love animals so much, and have a great respect for them emotionally and intellectually, because they are so different from human beings. Votes: 0

Some people have theorized that I lurched to prove myself intellectually. But it was not any lurch. It was more a kind of awakening. Votes: 0

I could not cherish London and not value Jewish London. The contribution of Jews to London is immense - politically, economically, culturally, intellectually, philanthropically, artistically. Votes: 0

Leisure consists in all those virtuous activities by which a man grows morally, intellectually, and spiritually. It is that which makes a life worth living. Votes: 0

Intuition is a method of feeling one's way intellectually into the inner heart of a thing to locate what is unique and inexpressible in it. Votes: 0

A teacher's failure to create an intellectually reflective, engagement for learning is not simply malpractice but it is immoral particularly for students who cannot withdraw. Votes: 0

Certain things are complete superstition and have no validity at all in the Bible. Yeah. They're just the antithesis of everything that is correct intellectually. Votes: 0

Political correctness is one of the engines of nannyism. Allowing and even encouraging offensive ideas is vital for the intellectually health of a free society. Votes: 0

There is very little in civilized life that demands everything you got intellectually, physically, and emotionally. Driving is living. It's aggressive instead of passive living. Votes: 0

We begin with the hypothesis that any subject can be taught effectively in some intellectually honest form to any child at any stage of development. Votes: 0

After I set out to refute Christianity intellectually and couldn't, I came to the conclusion the Bible was true and Jesus Christ was God's Son. Votes: 0

With all her masculine vigour and glory, Greece fell, gradually atrophied, because one half of her had been, of set purpose, intellectually and politically paralyzed. Votes: 0

This is still a man's profession, with a lot of men who intellectually and emotionally have not accepted that the military could be women's work. Votes: 0

I never think of things rationally or intellectually. I swear, every single decision I make is just instinct and my instincts tend to be accurate. Votes: 0

I admit that the eyes of the intellectually and culturally lively tend to glaze over at the mere mention of sociology, often with ample justification. Votes: 0

I was told that Federalist Society conventions were intellectually serious, courteous, and open to various points of view, and that has certainly been my experience. Votes: 0

Religious education is only valuable intellectually, if the child is educated in a religion versus [just] about a religion. I don't believe you can have both. Votes: 0

To suggest that a person's strongly held religious view is less tolerant than a strongly held antireligious view is morally, intellectually, and politically inconsistent and incorrect. Votes: 0

A random group of homeless people under a bridge would be far more intellectually sound and principled than anything I've encountered at the university so far. Votes: 0

When the melody touches your heart emotionally and the words hit your brain intellectually, more than likely you'll find you'll have an excellent song to sing. Votes: 0

The world is changing rapidly, and everyone changes along with the world. Discoveries is now becoming rampant; intellectually, technologically,etc, each having its advantage and disadvantage. Votes: 0

It is not possible to be intellectually honest and believe in gods. And it is not possible to believe in gods and be a true scientist. Votes: 0

I know I'm intellectually capable of finding a series of things and making hundreds of millions. I have to get there and do it. Carefully. Legally. Votes: 0

High Times magazine is a notch intellectually below Highlights for Children. I mean, they're both great to read when you're baked, but come on, ya know... Votes: 0

Berkeley had a liberal element in the student body who tended to be quite active. I think that's in general a feature of intellectually active places. Votes: 0

I am thoroughly satisfied that smoking is detrimental to the intelligence of Australians who I notice now are beginning to look sickly, pale and intellectually destitute. Votes: 0

Religiously the Empire was pluralistic and marked by a search for a faith which would be satisfying intellectually and ethically and would give assurance of immortality. Votes: 0

There is a danger when we give young people only a catalog of dos and don'ts. In these young minds, the gospel is not intellectually credible. Votes: 0

For particulars, as everyone knows, make for virtue and happiness; generalities are intellectually necessary evils. Not philosophers but fretsawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone of society. Votes: 0

In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy and especially dislike reading experimental papers. He seemed to have very strong biological intuitions but unfortunately of negative sign. Votes: 0

There is an immediate payoff to intelligent design: it destroys the atheistic legacy of Darwinian evolution. Intelligent design makes it impossible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist. Votes: 0

The immense majority of intellectually eminent men disbelieve in the Christian religion, but they conceal the fact in public, because they are afraid of losing their incomes. Votes: 0

If all ideas have to be bought, then you have an intellectually regressive system that will assure you have a highly knowledgeable elite and an ignorant mass. Votes: 0

When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social injustice, I supported it intellectually. Votes: 0

When you see, not only intellectually but with your heart too, how we are all connected, how can you harm another? It's the same as harming oneself. Votes: 0

I think schools generally do an effective and terribly damaging job of teaching children to be infantile, dependent, intellectually dishonest, passive and disrespectful to their own developmental capacities. Votes: 0

We must seek to be intellectually inclusive, just as we seek to be culturally inclusive. Ideas come and go - that's what makes a free society so vital. Votes: 0

Bush, himself the most intellectually backward American president of my political lifetime, is surrounded by advisers whose bellicosity is exceeded only by their political, military and diplomatic illiteracy. Votes: 0

How can you read and talk at the same time?" I asked. "Well, I usually can't, but neither the book nor the conversation is particularly intellectually challenging. Votes: 0

I like to see people reaching back for the roots and for the reason why. Not intellectually, but just for the gut feeling of what it's all about. Votes: 0

At 19, I basically held the position that if you were intellectually honest and really wanted to get in touch with political reality then you had to smell tear-gas. Votes: 0

To be a European is to try to negotiate morally, intellectually and existentially the opposing statements and praxis of the city of Socrates and the city of Isaiah. Votes: 0

Anyone who can look me in the eye and say they prefer the story of Moses or Jesus or Mohammed to the life of Socrates is intellectually defective. Votes: 0

Art criticism everywhere is now at a low ebb, intellectually corrupt, swamped in meaningless jargon, distorted by political correctitudes, anxiously addressed only to other critics and their ilk. Votes: 0

I want to be the best version of myself - intellectually, emotionally, and physically. So I like to wear clothes that I feel comfortable in, that reflect that. Votes: 0

To be sure an artist wishes to raise his standard intellectually as much as possible, but the man must remain in obscurity. Pleasure must be found in the studying. Votes: 0

Live a life that will help others spiritually, intellectually, physically, financially and relationally. Live a life that serves as a example of what an exceptional life can look like. Votes: 0

I generally think the president [Donald Trump] should get his Cabinet picks, unless they're egregiously out of the range, either ethically or intellectually out of the range of what's acceptable. Votes: 0

Poetry is at the centre of my life, too, emotionally speaking, and intellectually speaking - it's just that I'm one of those people who enjoy doing other stuff as well. Votes: 0

People will begin to explore all the sidestreets of sexual experience, but they will do it intellectually. . . . Sex won't take place in the bed, necessarily--it'll take place in the head! Votes: 0

It's not enough to be right because he [Rick Perry] is right, you got to be persuasively right, got to be intellectually agile, and I think he can do it. Votes: 0

I think Chris Rock at the Oscars was a great example. I thought that was intellectually hilarious. The Gap starts a war with Banana Republic... That to me was funny. Votes: 0

From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. ... I fell morally and intellectually obligated simply to concede that the death penalty experiment has failed. Votes: 0

Hunters and trackers learn not only to understand intellectually a bunch of facts about the animal they follow, but to feel their way into the very being of the animal. Votes: 0

I like John Kerry. I think he's intellectually curious and very thoughtful. I think he's deeply committed on issues like the environment. I think he's an internationalist, which I am. Votes: 0

Conservatism has had from its inception vigorously positive, intellectually rigorous agenda and thinking. That agenda should have in my three pillars: strengthen the economy, strengthen our security, and strengthen our families. Votes: 0

The tragedy of all political action is that some problems have no solution; none of the alternatives are intellectually consistent or morally uncompromising; and whatever decision is taken will harm somebody. Votes: 0

Many of us have read about and talked about forgiveness, and we understand intellectually why it might benefit us to let go of anger toward others. But we hold on anyway. Votes: 0

The real problem with natural selection is that it makes no intuitive sense. It is like quantum physics; we may intellectually grasp it, but it will never feel right to us. Votes: 0

The content of the curriculum should never exclude the realities of the very students who must intellectually wrestle with it. When students study all worlds except their own, they are miseducated. Votes: 0

Most of my choices come about through some kind of intuition or instinct, and if I need to, I'll post-rationalize them, intellectually, afterwards. But generally, they come about just by feeling. Votes: 0

It is fatal to decide, intellectually, what good poetry is because you are then in honour bound to try to write it, instead of the poems that only you can write. Votes: 0

Many a poor sore-eyed student that I have heard of would grow faster, both intellectually and physically, if, instead of sitting up so very late, he honestly slumbered a fool's allowance. Votes: 0

Rush Limbaugh makes money getting simpleminded people to feel good about their intellectually undernourished brain spasms. He's very good at it, and I scarcely believe a fraction of what he says. Votes: 0

I think, first and foremost, Marie Antoinette was intellectually impoverished. She really had never been introduced to the notion of abstract thinking - of thinking at all in any profound way. Votes: 0

I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity. Votes: 0

Political leaders or governments owe their position partly to force and partly to popular election. They cannot be regarded as representative of best elements, morally or intellectually, in their respective nations. Votes: 0

When you tell people you're in history, they give you this pained expression because that was the course they hated in high school. But history can be exciting, intellectually rigorous, and fun. Votes: 0

Tailoring the facts to fit one's theory constitutes neither good science nor good journalism. Rather, it is intellectually dishonest and, when published for consumption by a mass audience, adds up to propaganda. Votes: 0

The greatest problem is not with flat-out white racists, but rather with the far larger number of Americans who believe intellectually in racial equality but are quietly oblivious to injustice around them. Votes: 0

We all have different competencies. Some of us are intellectually gifted, some of us athletically gifted, some of us are great listeners. Everyone has a different level of what they can do. Votes: 0

Those of us who stayed were younger, more tractable. Less sure of ourselves socially and intellectually, we gave ourselves to the sport with little idea of what we could give or receive. Votes: 0

Artists and intellectuals are not he same animal. This causes a great deal of confusion. Our schools teach educate us intellectually but not artistically. We learn to deconstruct art, not construct it. Votes: 0

Conservative ideas are alive and dynamic, the result of a free and intellectually honest vision for the country. As long as conservatism is strong, the future of a strong America is assured. Votes: 0

I adopted the assumption of many of my generation that women were intellectually inferior to men, that we were not capable of governing, leading, managing anything but our homes and our children. Votes: 0

I never thought of Kim Basinger in terms of age. For me she embodies woman with her subtleties and intricacies. She's sensual and intellectually engaging, elegant with a very strong personal style. Votes: 0

We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness. We need others physically, emotionally, and intellectually. We need them if we are to know anything, even ourselves. Votes: 0

I loved New York—every inch of it. It was a little bit scary at that time, but still, the excitement was so strong—visually and intellectually. It was like a monster. Votes: 0

If people are not safe, they will not make themselves vulnerable. If they feel too comfortable, they can become complacent or lose their curiosity. They can become intellectually lazy about what matters most. Votes: 0

Adolescence is interesting. I mean, all of life is interesting and all of life is transitionary. But I think there is an exponential growth physically, intellectually, emotionally and there is so much potential. Votes: 0

The public schools I attended were dominated by athletics and rarely inspiring intellectually, but I enjoyed a small circle of interesting friends despite my ineptitude at team sports and my preference for reading. Votes: 0

The terrible thing about being blacklisted as an actress was that even though, intellectually, you knew what was happening, you still always wondered whether you weren't being hired because you weren't any good. Votes: 0

The female characters in my books tend to be independent, frisky, spunky, witty, emotionally strong, erotically daring, spiritually oriented and intellectually generous; in short, the kind of women I admire in real life. Votes: 0

First of all I like John Kerry. I think he's intellectually curious and very thoughtful. I think he's deeply committed on issues like the environment. I think he's an internationalist, which I am Votes: 0

Christ had given the apostles a world-wide commission, embracing all the nations; but intellectually they did not understand what He meant. They found that out as they followed the impulse of the Spirit. Votes: 0

A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail. Votes: 0

All ethics and morals are culturally relative. And Esme's reaction taught me that while cultural relativism is an easy concept to process intellectually, it is not, for many, an easy one to remember. Votes: 0

The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land." Votes: 0

A vast sector of modern advertising... does not appeal to reason but to emotion; like any other kind of hypnoid suggestion, it tries to impress its objects emotionally and then make them submit intellectually. Votes: 0

I suppose this is, essentially, my perspective on life. Just because we've made mistakes and learned things from them intellectually doesn't mean we won't continue to make the same mistakes over and over again. Votes: 0

Part of the broader task of Christian scholarship is to help create and sustain a cultural milieu in which the gospel can be heard as an intellectually viable option for thinking men and women. Votes: 0

At the same time, much of it seems to have to do with recreating things we or others had already done; it seems rather derivative intellectually; is there a dearth of really new ideas? Votes: 0

No, Not even remotely...Because I don't care. I don't pick roles based on how famous they are going to make me, I pick roles based on how they're going to inspire me intellectually. Votes: 0

The emphasis in doing any in-depth photography is on building relationships, quality relationships. It's what I call thirty-cups-of-coffee-a-frame photography. You need to enter into the community - not just photographically, but intellectually and emotionally. Votes: 0

A man receives only what he is ready to receive, whether physically or intellectually or morally, as animals conceive at certain seasons their kind only. We hear and apprehend only what we already half know. Votes: 0

Between the ages of 24 and 27, I read Freud's complete works, everything that had been translated into English. It was very stimulating intellectually. But I did not accept his view of neurosis or of human nature. Votes: 0

I was very precocious when I was young. I went to college at 16, and I graduated at 20. I wanted to be a writer, but I was more interested in experience than in applying myself intellectually. Votes: 0

It is difficult to wrap your mind around this intellectually and until you've had the experience, it can be difficult to understand. I tell people to give it a shot; you have nothing to lose. Votes: 0

Anyone who claims to be intrigued by the "intellectual challenge of the markets" is not a trader. The markets are as intellectually challenging as a fistfight. Ultimately, trading is an exercise in self-mastery and endurance. Votes: 0

It is a culturally interesting (but also deeply depressing) fact that many religious claims seem to retain their emotional power for believers only if taken in ways that are intellectually unsupportable and even morally contemptible. Votes: 0