Theodore Roosevelt Quotes, Years Quotes, Intellectual Quotes

Poverty is a bitter thing; but it is not as bitter as the existence of restless vacuity and physical, moral, and intellectual flabbiness, to which those doom themselves who elect to spend all their years in that vainest of all vain pursuits-the pursuit of mere pleasure as a sufficient end in itself.

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A great thing would be done if all these God-visions could embrace and cast themselves into each other; but intellectual dogma and cult egoism stand in the way.

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It recognizes no morality but a sham morality meant for deceit, no honor even among thieves and of a thievish sort, no force but physical force, no intellectual power but cunning, no disgrace but failure, no crime but stupidity.

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Intellectual knowledge exists in and of the brain. Because the brain is part of the body, which must one day expire, this collection of facts, however large and impressive, will expire as well. {But spiritual insight transcends death.}

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What is mind but motion in the intellectual sphere?

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The religion which is to guide and fulfill the present and coming ages, whatever else it be, must be intellectual. The scientific mind must have a faith which is science.

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Intellectual food is like any other; it is pleasanter and more beneficial to take it with a spoon than a shovel.

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It is only men who are free, who create the inventions and intellectual works which to us moderns make life worth while.

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Intellectual freedom depends upon material things.

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Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap.

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These stories about my intellectual capacity really get under my skin. You know, for a while I even thought my staff believed it. There on my schedule first thing every morning it said, 'Intelligence Briefing.'

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My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties.

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I learnt from Hussein how to achieve victory while being oppressed.

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A philosopher is a sort of intellectual yokel who gawks at things that sensible people take for granted.

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Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.

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I am afraid that you have been listening to the conversation of someone older than yourself. That is always a dangerous thing to do, and if you allow it to degenerate into a habit, you will find it absolutely fatal to any intellectual development.

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For such is man: a Theological Dogma might be refuted to him a thousand times - provided however, that he had need of it, he would again and again accept it as true. Belief is always most desired, most pressingly needed where there is a lack of will. Fanaticism is the sole "volitional strength" to which the weak and irresolute can be excited, as a sort of hypnotising of the entire sensory-intellectual system.

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I am thoroughly sick of pearls. They make one look so plain, so good and so intellectual.

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Observation and experiment for gathering material, induction and deduction for elaborating it: these are are only good intellectual tools.

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No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

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