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intellectual
«To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.»
Author: Henri Cartier-Bresson
(Photographer)
| Keywords:
breath, capture, converge, converged, converges, converging, faculties, fleeting, fleets, image, intellectual, mastering, photograph, precise, The Fleet
«The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
demand, intellectual, natural, nevertheless, vice
«The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.»
Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer
| Keywords:
essence, ignore, intellect, intellectual, literature, silly, sterile, substance, substances, The Passions, The War
«The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| About:
Education
| Keywords:
acquisition, acquisitions, facts, intellectual, in the main, learning, main
«The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
any, can-do, creature, creatures, Do, fact, from, His, inferiority, intellectual, knows, man, moral, Moral right, other, proves, right, superiority, The Creatures, wrong, wronging
«To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual»
«What is mind but motion in the intellectual sphere?»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
intellectual, mind, motion, sphere
«The intellectual advancement of man depends on how often he can exchange an old superstition for a new truth»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
| Keywords:
advancement, advancements, depends, exchange, exchanges, intellectual, New Man, Of Man, superstition, The Exchange
«To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal.»
Author: Saint Augustine
(Bishop, Theologian)
| About:
Wisdom
| Keywords:
apprehension, apprehensions, belongs, eternal, intellectual, rational, temporal
