To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.

The people who run a university are far more qualified and intelligent in handling people than someone who inherited his money and used it to buy a pro team.

After my mom died there was so much written about her fashion and her style and all that and I felt that one of the most important parts of her was missing her real intellectual curiosity.

The greater intellect one has the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.

Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.

Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.

I have never met anyone who did not support our troops. Sometimes however we hear accusations that someone or some group does not support the men and women serving in our Armed Forces. But this is pure demagoguery and it is intellectually dishonest.

I have four strikes against me. I'm black I'm short I'm intelligent and I have a medical condition.

There is no greater excitement than to support an intellectual wife and have her support you. Marriage is a partnership in which each inspires the other and brings fruition to both of you.

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it deserves all the consequences.

Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.

The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements but moral acts: to return love for hate to include the excluded and to say 'I was wrong'.

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them they will forgive us everything even our gigantic intellects.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life and urge doing. I am content with knowing if only I could know.

I've become so earthy. And I never was earthy. I'm doing all kinds of different roles which are not at all like the intellectual and the legal mind of Ben Stone.

Intellectual property is an important legal and cultural issue. Society as a whole has complex issues to face here: private ownership vs. open source and so on.

I spend so much time with the brightest and most talented and well-rounded people. I've had the privilege of having long and very intellectual conversations with people and sometimes I just sit there and listen. It's like a better version of a class. Even though I'm not sitting at a desk and in school I'm still learning all the time.

Ignorance of what real learning is and a consequent suspicion of it materialism and a consequent intellectual laxity both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.

The battle was first waged over the right of the Negro to be classed as a human being with a soul later as to whether he had sufficient intellect to master even the rudiments of learning and today it is being fought out over his social recognition.

Contrary to current cynicism about past golden ages the abstraction known as 'the intelligent layperson' does exist - in the form of millions of folks with a passionate commitment to continuous learning.

After learning the language and culture of the Chinese people these Jesuits began to establish contacts with the young intellectuals of the country.

Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature.

Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.

I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual I'm too abstract I think too much.