Pastoral Resources

Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

There was a very serious communist strain among American intellectuals before the war. America was a more tolerant place in those days, and Communists were not treated as pariahs. That ended with the McCarthy era.

What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.

I don't dare postulate about science, but I know that it takes both emotion and intellect in order for art to happen.

The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.

Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.

We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense.

I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.

We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the human intellect.

Men have been found to deny woman intellect; they have credited her with instinct, with intuition, with a capacity to correlate cause and effect much as a dog connects its collar with a walk.

But the Spain which emerged around 1960, beginning with its economic miracle, created by the invasion of tourists, can no longer result in impassioned dedication on the part of its intellectuals, and even less on the part of foreign intellectuals.

And with each day that passed, the gulf broadened and my isolation became more accentuated. In such a situation, the discovery that my experience was not unique, that it had also been that of other Spanish intellectuals, became very important for me.

I obtain great satisfaction out of using my intellect.

It was generally believed that Catholics were not interested in arts and science graduate schools. They weren't going to be intellectuals. And so I put the theses to the test. And they all collapsed.

I think we actually punish children out of their relationship with their bodies... we categorically separate mind and body and emotion and intellect.