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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country. -- Sinclair Lewis
I've always been more comfortable making my decisions from the subconscious level, or more emotionally, because I find it is more truthful to me; Intellectually, I don't think like that because I get uncomfortable. -- Tim Burton
Intellectually I'm probably a Republican. -- Sting
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How am I immature? Intellectually, emotionally, and sexually. Yeah, but in what other ways? -- Woody Allen
Intellectually, the Republican idea deserves the tolerance and respect one gives to the dead. -- H. P. Lovecraft
Intellectually, most people never wash. They never free their minds of the accumulated rubbish of centuries. -- Louis Dudek
Intellectually, I know I am worthy, however arbitrary a thing worthiness is, and have always been worthy. -- Roxane Gay
It is not in the gene of an Intellectually blinded person to experience the paradise in the writer's imagination. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
Intellectually, I think everyone really knows that women are funny, but it's a weird thing that people keep trotting out. -- Bonnie McFarlane
Intellectually, as politically, the direction of all true progress is towards greater freedom, and along an endless succession of ideas. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
Intellectually religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves readily to the current view of the world and consecrate it. -- John Dewey
Do I remain a revolutionary? Intellectually -- without a doubt. But am I prepared to give my body to the struggle or even my comforts? This is what I puzzle about. -- Lorraine Hansberry
I have done very little in my life except go to school and work for the CIA. Intellectually I think I did everything I could. Emotionally you always think you should have something more. -- Tyler Drumheller
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
Just as many smart people fail in the investment business as stupid ones. Intellectually active people are particularly attracted to elegant concepts, which can have the effect of distracting them from the simpler, more fundamental truths. -- Peter Cundill
It's pretty popular today to say that everybody should learn to fail and that failure's a good thing. Intellectually, it's an obvious thing. But in fact, it gets conflated with another meaning of failure, so when we grow up as kids, failing in school was a really bad thing. -- Edwin Catmull
Intellectually, perspective [drawing] is a breakthrough, because here, for the first time, the physical space we live in is being depicted as ifit were an abstract, mathematical space. A less obvious innovation due to perspective is that here, for the first time, people are actually drawing pictures of infinities. -- Rudy Rucker
A people morally and intellectually equal to self-government must also be equal in self-defence. -- Jefferson Davis
When you make a decision to forgive it's a decision that you have to make intellectually. -- T. D. Jakes
Nostalgia is a very complicated subject for me. I'm attracted by nostalgia but I refuse it intellectually. -- Miuccia Prada
All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work. -- Calvin Coolidge
I believe that an art exhibition can be engaging, fun and deeply intellectually satisfying and serious. These are not contradictory concepts in art. -- Jeffrey Deitch
You cannot be against embryonic stem cell research and be intellectually and therefore morally consistent, if you're not also against in vitro fertilization. -- Ron Reagan
Conservative New Testament studies could also provide an intellectually satisfying alternative to German biblical criticism and to the liberal theology that accompanied it. -- John Gresham Machen
Not everyone realises that to write a really good piece of journalism is at least as demanding intellectually as the achievement of any scholar. -- Max Weber
Political correctness is one of the engines of nannyism. Allowing and even encouraging 'offensive' ideas is vital for the intellectually health of a free society. -- David Harsanyi
Poverty places not just one or two obstacles but multiple obstacles in a child's pathway to what we would consider to be regular development - cognitively, intellectually and emotionally. -- Geoffrey Canada
I studied economics and made it my career for two reasons. The subject was and is intellectually fascinating and challenging, particularly to someone with taste and talent for theoretical reasoning and quantitative analysis. -- James Tobin
I am an English major in school with an emphasis in creative writing. I think hearing Maya Angelou speak at school last year was one of the best moments Stanford, at least, intellectually, had to offer. -- Fred Savage
I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn't have to choose. And I believe that's always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately. -- Erica Jong
No doubt, corporate CEOs who lie to their shareholders and politicians who lie to their public know and believe intellectually that lying is immoral. Why then do they lie? They lie to others because they first lie to themselves. -- Lewis B. Smedes
The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land, to add something to the extent and the solidity of our possessions. -- Thomas Huxley
For those who struggle with anti-pagan prejudices and stereotypes, Humanist Paganism might be a powerful educational tool. It can show that a pagan can be a sophisticated, cosmopolitan, and enlightened person, and that a pagan culture can be artistically vibrant, environmentally conscious, intellectually stimulating, and socially just. -- Brendan Myers
It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing... if you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you've got it half-made. I mean intellectually. -- V. S. Naipaul
Husbands, recognize your wife's intelligence and her ability to counsel with you as a real partner regarding family plans, family activities, and family budgeting. Don't be stingy with your time or with your means. Give her the opportunity to grow intellectually, emotionally, and socially as well as spiritually. -- Ezra Taft Benson
If a man can make me laugh and stimulate me intellectually, then I wouldn't mind if he was 4 ft. 8 in. with a huge belly. The only thing that would put me off is bad breath - but even that can be fixed. A bad personality isn't so easy to fix. -- Olga Kurylenko
Athletes and musicians make astronomical amounts of money. People get paid $100 million to throw a baseball! Shouldn't we all take less and pass some of that money onto others? Think about firefighters, teachers and policemen. We should celebrate people that are intellectually smart and trying to make this world a better place. -- Kid Rock
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What is the meaning of 'gossip?' Doesn't it originate with sympathy, an interest in one's neighbor, degenerating into idle curiosity and love of tattling? Which is worse, this habit, or keeping one's self so absorbed intellectually as to forget the sufferings and cares of others, to lose sympathy through having too much to think about? -- Lucy Larcom
Fear and euphoria are dominant forces, and fear is many multiples the size of euphoria. Bubbles go up very slowly as euphoria builds. Then fear hits, and it comes down very sharply. When I started to look at that, I was sort of intellectually shocked. Contagion is the critical phenomenon which causes the thing to fall apart. -- Alan Greenspan
I'm looking for a way out of here. I can't have it physically, so I'm going to have it intellectually. It was a beautiful thing to ride Seabiscuit in my imagination. And it's just fantastic to be there alongside Louie as he's breaking the NCAA mile record. People at these vigorous moments in their lives - it's my way of living vicariously. -- Laura Hillenbrand
Generalities are intellectually necessary evils. -- Aldous Huxley
A film engages you emotionally and intellectually. -- Irrfan Khan
I get overwhelmed when I approach things intellectually. -- Keegan-Michael Key
In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy. -- Francis Crick
Resiliency is not gender-, age-, or intellectually specific... -- Asa Don Brown
It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue. -- Oscar Wilde
Pragmatism is an intellectually safe but ultimately sterile philosophy. -- J. Robert Oppenheimer
Those [presidents] who were strongest intellectually were also strongest spiritually... -- John F. Kennedy
I only surround myself with people who are intellectually stimulating. -- Anna Chlumsky
You have to change men physically before you change them intellectually. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
We still need to feed the public, both physically and intellectually. -- Barry Corbin
Root for the girls who wear dresses and are intellectually very strong. -- Sophie Turner
Algebra and money are essentially levelers; the first intellectually, the second effectively. -- Simone Weil
No one can be as intellectually slothful as a really smart person -- Stephen King
One can become as intellectually arrogant about spirituality as about empirical science. -- Shirley MacLaine
It is conceivable that religion may be morally useful without being intellectually sustainable. -- John Stuart Mill
Chronologically she is twelve, but emotionally she is older, and intellectually older still. -- Dean Koontz
Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison. -- Swami Vivekananda
In backbends, one touches the body physically, mentally, intellectually, consciously and spiritually everywhere. -- B.K.S. Iyengar
I like it to be visually powerful, intellectually elegant, and above all, timeless. -- Massimo Vignelli
Being intellectually hospitable is a virtue that I bring into the interview space, -- Krista Tippett
Empathy is intuitive, but it is also something you can work on intellectually. -- Tim Minchin
There is no worse torture than knowing intellectually about love and the way. -- Rumi
I want to be a part of something that's good and intellectually challenging. -- Giovanni Ribisi
I'd say, probably, intellectually I've drawn as much from Judaism as any other faith. -- Barack Obama
One can believe intellectually in the efficacy of prayer and never do any praying. -- Catherine Marshall
Sociology seems to have missed every intellectually promising boat in the last half century. -- Pierre L. van den Berghe
Biblically sound, faithful, and intellectually satisfying theology that will . . . cure many current theological concerns. -- Jay Kesler
I love reading fiction about people who are connecting intellectually. I find that exhilarating. -- Lily King
Your friend is intellectually honourable," Jimmy's mother would say. "He doesn't lie to himself. -- Margaret Atwood
The message of Islam asks you to be intellectually, spiritually, socially, and politically independent -- Tariq Ramadan
Jarecki's 'Reagan' is a compellingly watchable and appropriately conflicted portrait...artfully nuanced and intellectually curious. -- Hank Stuever
Agatha Christie's writing is incredibly skillful because her books are incredibly intellectually puzzling and challenging. -- Sophie Hannah
He was perceived to be intellectually promiscuous, a little too eager to please all groups. -- David Halberstam
Being at the top of your game intellectually, philosophically, politically, is not a forever thing. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
To live is to have problems and to solve problems is to to grow intellectually. -- J. P. Guilford
I try to figure out - intellectually, philosophically, psychologically - what the experience of beauty is. -- Denis Dutton
It's wonderful when music is intellectually stimulating. But ultimately it has to be a visceral experience. -- Maya Beiser
Psychopaths know intellectually what is immoral they just don't have a feeling of immorality about it. -- Barbara Oakley
Judaism is an intellectually based religion, and the single most important theme is that of study. -- Norman Lamm
I find value investing to be a stimulating, intellectually challenging, ever changing, and financially rewarding discipline -- Seth Klarman
I would say that, intellectually, Catholicism had no more impact on me than did social theory. -- Paul Farmer
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. -- William James
The scientific argument advanced for intelligent design at the Dover trial, those arguments collapsed, scientifically and intellectually -- Kenneth R. Miller
All children should be loved, protected, nurtured --emotionally and intellectually-- respected, and never, under any circumstances, underestimated. -- Augusten Burroughs
Where do the really best laughs come from? Terrific connections made intellectually, or terrific revelations made emotionally. -- Del Close
Education is the preparation of a child intellectually, emotionally, spiritually, and physically for life and for eternity. -- Kevin Swanson
The scientific argument advanced for intelligent design at the Dover trial, those arguments collapsed, scientifically and intellectually. -- Kenneth R. Miller
Children of polygamists besides being equally as bright and brighter intellectually, are much more healthy and strong. -- George Q. Cannon
Doing what has never been done before is intellectually seductive, whether or not we deem it practical. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
My parents were both very intellectually honest, straightforward, and for them, faith meant that you were fully engaged. -- Rob Bell
There's a big difference between being able to explain religion intellectually and transforming that knowledge into spiritual experience. -- Thubten Yeshe
No matter what that makes elastic - sharply, intellectually and sincerely, keep at bay it as noxious waste. -- Swami Vivekananda
The business of schools is to design, create, and invent high-quality, intellectually demanding schoolwork that students find engaging. -- Phillip C. Schlechty
[T]o argue that something is so because it is in the Bible is more than intellectually bankrupt. -- Jon Meacham
One should not be too severe on English novels; they are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed. -- Oscar Wilde
Whenever people are being intellectually dishonest in debate, it is an implicit concession they have lost the fight -- Barney Frank
The United States survives so long as at least one of its major parties is politically and intellectually healthy. -- Bret Stephens
We know intellectually that money can't buy happiness yet we spend and go into debt as if it does. -- Michelle Singletary
Sweeping, confident articles on the future seem to me, intellectually, the most disreputable of all forms of public utterance. -- Kenneth Clark
The world my children are growing up in is so much more sophisticated and exposed - emotionally, intellectually, sexually. -- Amy Grant
Although atheism might have been logically tenable before Darwin, Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist. -- Richard Dawkins
But investment in space stimulates society, it stimulates it economically, it stimulates it intellectually, and it gives us all passion. -- Bill Nye
It strikes me as being morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus. -- Bob Geldof
You have to be intellectually honest with yourself and others. In my judgment, all great investors are seekers of truth. -- Michael Steinhardt
As professional actors, it's our job to entertain our audiences while setting benchmarks for ourselves as well, creatively and intellectually. -- Hrithik Roshan
The important question is whether [a theory] is true, not whether envisioning an alternative is too intellectually painful to bear. -- J. D. Trout
I called Donald Trump a racist. Nobody that makes that charge is being intellectually honest, or else they're being intellectually lazy. -- Joe Scarborough
My deepest impulses are optimistic; an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect. -- Ellen Willis
My deepest impulses are optimistic, an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect. -- Ellen Willis
I really don't think we should dismiss a book because we feel messed about intellectually. Or emotionally. That's the writer's job! -- Hilton Als
I find it satisfying and intellectually stimulating to work with the intensity, brevity, balance and word play of the short story. -- Annie Proulx
I often feel intellectually frustrated when I'm in a position where I'm not moving forward; when I'm not enquiring about something. -- Eleanor Catton
I'm talking about intellectually and emotionally challenging, but at the same time it's actually not that challenging. So there's this dichotomy. -- Marina Abramovic
The Commons is one of the most depressing and intellectually unstimulating places in the country. [On the state of British politics -- Clare Short
The things that you know intellectually when you're young become internalized as you get older. You realize all those clichÃ©s. -- Cary Elwes
I respect those who openly advocate for unlimited immigration to the United States. Open borders is an intellectually coherent, defensible position. -- Jan C. Ting
I think you are wrong, Basil, but I won't argue with you. It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue. -- Oscar Wilde

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