The Paradox of Freedom—the way to expand your freedom is to narrow your focus. Stay focused on saving to achieve financial freedom. Stay focused on training to achieve physical freedom. Stay focused on learning to...

I am not looking for a “perfect” man. Only one who matches me on an emotional, spiritual, sexual, and intellectual level.

Integrity is the integument that makes intelligence more acceptable

If only everyone could know and live with their inner craziness. Would the world be a worse place for it? No, people would be fairer and happier.

Sharing is the first stage to the evolution of the intellectual.

God is not an alternative to science as an explanation, he is not to be understood merely as a God of the gaps, he is the ground of all explanation: it is his existence which...

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

As for the majority, it is not so much race as it is political affiliation that really divides it today. What was once an issue of physical difference is now one of intellectual difference. Men...

To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. This is the sport, the luxury, special to the intellectual man. The gesture characteristic of his tribe consists in looking at the world with eyes...

It is better for the intellectual not to talk all the time. To begin with, it would exhaust him, and, above all, it would keep him from thinking. He must create if he can, first...

With intellectual labor your hard work is forever, while with manual labor your hard work is temporary and soon forgotten.

A professional headshot in front of a bookshelf says you’re an intellectual. A professional headshot peeking though a bookshelf says you’re probably under a restraining order.

Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn

You make all the fashion statements just by dressing up your mind.

There is nothing distinctively scientific about the hypothetico-deductive process. It is not even distinctively intellectual. It is merely a scientific context for a much more general stratagem that underlies almost all regulative processes or processes...

The young are often savvy in the cultural world but not so much the intellectual; the old the intellectual but not so much the cultural. But I tell you those who do the most damage...

For the first time after so many years I come back to cry aloud in the desert. Because this is the mission of the intellectual who is truly a prophet—to cry in the desert. The...

Over intellect will make you a genius, over emotions will make you a lunatic.

Random search for data on … off-chance is hardly scientific. A questionnaire on ‘Intellectual Immoralities’ was circulated by a well-known institution. ‘Intellectual Immorality No. 4’ read: ‘Generalizing beyond one’s data’. [Wilder Dwight] Bancroft asked whether...

I like to go to Starbucks and watch the intellectuals. I observe them and their intellectualness. They in turn observe me drinking coffee and being a creeper.

Envy and respect are not the same things…Before I endow you with respect, I should find out whether your curiosity is intellectual or merely morbid. Not that those who gawk at train derailments are so...

She was no intellectual, but men were scrupulous about avoiding intellectual women unless they had the sense to keep it well hidden.

Those ‘back burner’ thoughts, the ones the brain isn’t quite sure about yet, may cook the slowest yet they often manage to be the tastiest when they come out.

Intelligence is a way of thinking, not a choice of words.

It is a courage which can find the solution to every problem, not the intelligence.

Además no es tan malo vivir solo. Yo la paso bien, decidiendo a cada instante lo que quiero hacer, y gracias a la soledad me conozco; algo fundamental para vivir

A great thinker does not necessarily have to discover a master idea but has to rediscover and to affirm a true but forgotten, ignored or misunderstood master idea and interpret it in all the diverse...

we must pass over in silence.

The outcome of insane parents is either a murderer or an intellectual.

The intellectual mind judges a book after having read it.A fool’s mind judges a book by its title.

Intellect is the virtue of ignoring one’s emotions’ attempt to contaminate one’s opinions.

During intellectual droughts one shower of good ideas can cause a flash-flood to wash away the roads your habits travel.

Travelling in other’s shoes is a complex process. Everyone carries loads of inherited virtues and then, heaps of experience acquired while travelling their own exclusive path of life. One’s personality, particularly the way one thinks,...

I went on writing reviews for the newspaper, and critical articles crying out for a different approach to culture, as even the most inattentive reader could hardly fail to notice if he scratched the surface...

[On famous Nobel Laureate Niels Bohr][Niels] Bohr’s sort of humor, use of parables and stories, tolerance, dependence on family, feelings of indebtedness, obligation, and guilt, and his sense of responsibility for science, community, and, ultimately,...

Like Alan Turing, Zuse was educated in a system that focused on a child’s emotional and philosophical life as well as his intellectual life, and at the end of school, like Turing, Zuse found himself...

The most dangerous thing about an academic education is that it enables my tendency to over-intellectualize stuff, to get lost in abstract thinking instead of simply paying attention to what’s going on in front of...

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...

A true comedian is really a good humanitarian, but a very rare few match up to that high standard.

Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.

The wisdom of thought beyond barriers is life changing.

Kupata maarifa kutokana na shida ni jambo la kawaida maana shida ni kipimo cha akili, lakini kupata maarifa bila shida ni hekima maana hekima ni ufunguo wa maamuzi mema na udadisi wa kiakili.

Intellectuals that approach me, only serve to feeding my intellectualism. Imaginists that approach me, only serve to enhancing my Imaginism. It’s impossible to feed my I, for I am the Greatest ‘I AM.

Intellectual death is endemic in areas where people are unprepared to obtain new information for development. Learning is a way of staying alive.

I personally never expected anything of Obama, and wrote about it before the 2008 primaries. I thought it was smoke and mirrors […] I don’t usually admire Sarah Palin, but when she was making fun...

Every penny that has always been earned with integrity by a person to lead life with a real simplicity has only perhaps helped to serve Almighty & protect and preserve humanity in the society.

To force oneself to believe and to accept a thing without understanding is political, and not spiritual or intellectual.

Many things have been compared to a brick, mainly as a tribute to their intellect or to their aerodynamic characteristics.

Reading is my passion and my escape since I was 5 years old. Overall, children don’t realize the magic that can live inside their own heads. Better even then any movie.

Is my paranoia getting completely out of hand, or are you mongoloids really talking about me?