Fyodor Dostoevsky Novelist, Philosopher “I have been tortured with longing to believe ... and the yearning grows stronger the more cogent the intellectual difficulties stand in the way.” Believe Intellectual Stronger ♥ 3
Khaled Hosseini Author, Physician “Kabul was a thriving cosmopolitan city with its vibrant artistic, intellectual and cultural life. There were poets, musicians, and writers. There was also an influx of western culture, art, and literature in the '60s and '70s.” Art Cities Intellectual ♥ 3
Lily King Author “I love this idea of trying to create that intellectual eroticism. That was what I was working toward all along.” Trying Ideas Intellectual ♥ 3
Jesse Ball Author “Americans are genuinely and profoundly anti-intellectual. They are especially so in their pleasure-seeking, which is epically banal.” Intellectual Pleasure Pleasure Seeking ♥ 3
JA John Adams Founding Father, Politician “Tis impossible to judge with much Præcision of the true Motives and Qualities of human Actions, or of the Propriety of Rules contrived to govern them, without considering with like Attention, all the Passions, Appetites, Affections in Nature from which they flow. An intimate Knowledge therefore of the intellectual and moral World is the sole foundation on which a stable structure of Knowledge can be erected.” Passion Judging Intellectual ♥ 3
John F. Kennedy Politician “There has also been a change - a slippage - in our intellectual and moral strength. Seven lean years of drouth and famine have withered a field of ideas.” Years Ideas Intellectual ♥ 3
John Green Author, YouTuber “Wow,” I said. “Are you making this up?” “Hazel Grace, could I, with my meager intellectual capacities, make up a letter from Peter Van Houten featuring phrases like ‘our triumphantly digitized contemporaneity’?” “You could not,” I allowed. “Can I, can I have the email address?” “Of course,” Augustus said, like it was not the best gift ever.” Grace Intellectual Email ♥ 3
John Stuart Mill Philosopher, Political Economist “If religious belief be indeed so necessary to mankind, as we are continually assured that it is, there is great reason to lament, that the intellectual grounds of it should require to be backed by moral bribery or subornation of the understanding.” Religious Understanding Intellectual ♥ 3
Jorge Luis Borges Writer, Poet “There are no moral or intellectual merits. Homer composed the Odyssey; if we postulate an infinite period of time, with infinite circumstances and changes, the impossible thing is not to compose the Odyssey, at least once.” Intellectual Merit Impossible Things ♥ 3
Jorge Luis Borges Writer, Poet “I'm not interested in the fact that a writer may label himself as being intellectual or anti-intellectual. l'm really interested in the stuff he's turning out.” May Intellectual Labels ♥ 3
Joseph Conrad Novelist, Short Story Writer “All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. All intellectual and artistic ambitions are permissible, up to and even beyond the limit of prudent sanity. They can hurt no one.” Hurt Ambition Intellectual ♥ 3
John Stuart Mill Philosopher, Political Economist “The guesses which serve to give mental unity and wholeness to a chaos of scattered particulars, are accidents which rarely occur to any minds but those abounding in knowledge and disciplined in intellectual combinations.” Giving Discipline Intellectual ♥ 3
