Quotes of Intellectually - somelinesforyou

“ People think that if you have a huge appetite, then you'll be better at it. But actually, it's how you confront the food that is brought to you. You have to be mentally and psychologically prepared. ”

- Takeru Kobayashi

“ It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually. ”

- M. Scott Peck

“ The most urgent necessity in human life is to be able to face life victoriously. For many are living mentally, physically, morally and spiritually defeated. ”

- F. A. Wickett

“ We never desire strongly, what we desire rationally. ”

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“ All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work. ”

- Calvin Coolidge

“ The life of a person has meaning if it enriches the lives of other people materially, intellectually and or morally. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ Today the world is the victim of propaganda because people are not intellectually competent. More than anything the United States needs effective citizens competent to do their own thinking. ”

- William Mather Lewis

“ Racing takes everything you've got — intellectually, emotionally, physically — and then you have to find about ten percent more and use that too. ”

- Janet Guthrie

“ One should not be too severe on English novels; they are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction. ”

- Rita Mae Brown

“ Intellectually, I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country. ”

- Sinclair Lewis

“ Intellectually, religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves readily to the current view of the world and consecrate it. ”

- John Dewey

“ Vernon Reis opened the world to me through books. He taught me that while I was physically firmly planted in blue-collar Auburn, Washington in the 50s and early 60s, intellectually I could go anywhere, explore anything, and sample exciting new ideas simply by opening a book. ”

- Christine Gregoire

“ Most people live, whether physically, intellectually, or morally, in a very restricted circle of their being. They make use of a very small portion of their possible consciousness, and of their soul's resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole bodily organism, should get into the habit of using and moving only his little finger… ”

- William James

“ 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. ”

- Paul Wellstone

“ I've become wary of interviews in which you're forced to go back over the reasons why you made certain decisions. You tend to rationalize what you've done, to intellectually review a process that is often intuitive. ”

- Peter Weir

“ I think the average Jew is probably sharper intellectually than the average gentile, because for years and years he's had to live by his wits. Consequently, there has evolved a race of Jews who are more agile mentally than the rest of us. ”

- George Lincoln Rockwell

“ 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. ”

- Roddy McDowall

“ The Iowa Psychology Department was not Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood. It was, indeed, an intellectually lively and demanding place where major theoretical issues were pursued with a passion. It was refreshingly free of colorless eclecticism. ”

- Albert Bandura

“ The reading public is intellectually adolescent at best, and it is obvious that what is called "significant literature" will only be sold to this public by exactly the same methods as are used to sell it toothpaste, cathartics and automobiles. ”

- Raymond Chandler
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