Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words or in exact and priggish argument.

Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature the texts our first attempt at cosmology making sense of where we are in the universe our first attempt at health care believing in faith healing our first attempt at philosophy.

Politics is an act of faith you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.

There is nothing wrong with America that faith love of freedom intelligence and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!

Worry is spiritual short sight. Its cure is intelligent faith.

The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement.

We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States.

Our failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq thus far has been deeply troubling and our intelligence-gathering process needs thorough and unbiased investigation.

We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again this time more intelligently.

If you believe your catcher is intelligent and you know that he has considerable experience it is a good thing to leave the game almost entirely in his hands.

Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.

To me the job of the artist is to provide a useful and intelligent vocabulary for the world to be able to articulate feelings they experience everyday and otherwise wouldn't have the means to express in a meaningful and useful way.

There are a lot of obstacles in the way of our understanding animal intelligence - not the least being that we can't even agree whether nonhuman species are conscious. We accept that chimps and dolphins experience awareness we like to think dogs and cats do. But what about mice and newts? What about a fly? Is anything going on there at all?

All observers not laboring under hallucinations of the senses are agreed or can be made to agree about facts of sensible experience through evidence toward which the intellect is merely passive and over which the individual will and character have no control.

Anyone who teaches knows that you don't really experience a text until you've taught it in loving detail with an intelligent and responsive class.

I write out of my intellectual experience.

Skill is the unified force of experience intellect and passion in their operation.

Experience without theory is blind but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

Women have talent and intelligence but due to social constraints and prejudices it is still a long distance away from the goal of gender equality.

It will appear evident upon attentive consideration that equality of intellectual and physical advantages is the only sure foundation of liberty and that such equality may best and perhaps only be obtained by a union of interests and cooperation in labor.

If we were to select the most intelligent imaginative energetic and emotionally stable third of mankind all races would be present.