There were sins whose fascination was more in the memory than in the doing of them, strange triumphs that gratified the pride more than the passions, and gave to the intellect a quickened sense of joy, greater than any joy they brought, or could ever bring, to the senses.
Oscar WildeStichwörter: joy memory pride intellect sins senses passions
Emotions are like muscles. Most of them go highly unattended, it's usually the weaker, undefined ones that cause injury to the rest, and there is most certainly memory response in play.
Erica GorosStichwörter: inspiration change emotions self-help intellect humor-inspirational
He had let me know time after time that he was a thinking man, a man of intellect and wit. Yet one unintended hungry look into my eyes and he betrayed each of his words he had carefully spoken to me. I knew it in that instant. He was a viscerally driven man. And one day, he would possess me.
Coco J. GingerStichwörter: love writing writers wit intellect trains love-story possess jamie-weise hungry-look thinking-man viscer
The detective story is the normal recreation of noble minds.
Philip GuedallaStichwörter: reading mysteries intellect detective-stories recreation
A man can live on his wits and his balls for only so long.
Hunter S. ThompsonStichwörter: reality determination life-lessons intellect
Muscle is good, but craft is better
WaceStichwörter: intelligence strength intellect merlin
[T]he more clamour we make about 'the women's point of view', the more we rub it into people that the women's point of view is different, and frankly I do not think it is -- at least in my job. The line I always want to take is, that there is the 'point of view' of the reasonably enlightened human brain, and that this is the aspect of the matter which I am best fitted to uphold.
Dorothy L. SayersStichwörter: intelligence empowerment equality gender women perspective feminism prejudice misogyny brain intellect stereotypes double-standards clichés point-of-view
...When a man first awakens, it sometimes takes several moments before he starts thinking clearly."
"And here I thought it took several years, perhaps a lifetime for the average man's intellect to kick in.
Stichwörter: humor men sleeping intellect karen-marie-moning gwen drustan kiss-of-the-highlander the-highlanders
Man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild.
James AllenIf I show up at your house ten years from now and find nothing in your living room but The Readers Digest, nothing on your bedroom night table but the newest Dan Brown novel, and nothing in your bathroom but Jokes for the John, I’ll chase you down to the end of your driveway and back, screaming ‘Where are your books? You graduated college ten years ago, so how come there are no damn books in your house? Why are you living on the intellectual equivalent of Kraft Macaroni and Cheese?
Stephen KingStichwörter: books stephen-king intellect commencement
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