#intellect

I shall suggest, on the contrary, that all communication relies, to a noticeable extent on evoking knowledge that we cannot tell, and that all our knowledge of mental processes, like feelings or conscious intellectual activities, is based on a knowledge which we cannot tell. ↗

— Michael Polanyi

#based #cannot #communication #conscious #contrary

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

— Miuccia Prada

#complicated #i #intellectually #me #nostalgia

Now, I'm not saying I'm fashionable, but there are sociological interests that matter to me, things that are theoretical, political, intellectual and also concerned with vanity and beauty that we all think about but that I try to mix up and translate into fashion. ↗

— Miuccia Prada

#also #beauty #concerned #fashion #fashionable

Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#countries #give #hope #instability #intellectuals

The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#being #certain #essayist #fantasy #follow

I desire to assist in attracting to this profession young men of character and ability, also to help those already engaged in the profession to acquire the highest moral and intellectual training. ↗

— Joseph Pulitzer

#acquire #already #also #assist #attracting

Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat. ↗

— Mary Renault

#boredom #considered #defeat #had #intellectual

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. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#agenda #conservatism #economy #families #had

From the lowest animals of which we can affirm intelligence up to man this type of intellect is found. ↗

— Edward Thorndike

#found #intellect #intelligence #lowest #man

I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense. ↗

— Harold Brodkey

#another #duties #her #his #i