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Yoga is more than physical. It is cellular, mental, intellectual and spiritual-it involves man in his entire being — B.K.S. Iyengar

[T]he source of everything respectable in man either as an intellectual or as a moral being namely, that his errors are corrigible. — John Stuart Mill

To ask for a purely intellectual proof of the existence of God is like asking for the privilege of being able to see with your ears! — Meher Baba

They took off running like a couple of spastic marathoners. — John Green

[On being asked how many Mrs. Thatchers there were:] Oh, three at least. There is the intellectual one, the intuitive one and the one at home. — Margaret Thatcher

The intellectual is, quite simply, a human being who has a pencil in his or her hand when reading a book. — George Steiner

An airplane stands for freedom, for joy, for the power to understand, and to demonstrate that understanding. — Richard Bach

There has never been a boy painter, nor can there be. The art requires a long apprenticeship, being mechanical, as well as intellectual. — John Constable

The eyes are the nipples of the face — Anna Faris

The means of effective communication are being expropriated from the intellectual worker. — C. Wright Mills

Confidence comes from hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication. — Roger Staubach

A true intellectual is a man who, after reading a book and being convinced by its arguments, will shoot someone or, more likely, order someone shot. — John McCarthy

Occasionally, you will be given the chance to be either intellectual or pleasant. Leave being intellectual to others. — Ernie J Zelinski

The days we shared I alone would remember now.
I suddenly felt less real. — Robin Hobb

Intellectual capacity is no guarantee against being dead wrong. — Carl Sagan

Human as an intellectual being needs answers about the existence for the purpose of knowing the way to live. — Zaman Ali

I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing. — Richard Rorty

But a huge part of being a writer is discovering your own intellectual and aesthetic autonomy, and how you best get the best words onto the page. — Paul Harding

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. — Janis Joplin

To be free is of the essence of every intellectual being. — Jacques Maritain

I hate to do what I'm told, that's why I'm not good at 9-to-5s. — Beth Ditto

I too had thoughts once of being an intellectual, but I found it too difficult. — Albert Schweitzer

Stealing music is not right, and I can understand people being very upset about their intellectual property being stolen. — Steve Jobs

Nature makes merit, and fortune puts it to work. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Freedom would mean rest, artistic achievement, the intellectual fulfilment of my being. — Pessoa, Fernando

I'm just being myself. I'm not a very complex guy; I'm not a very studious, crazy intellectual guy. I'm just a guy. — Mac DeMarco

NVC shows us a way of being very honest, but without any criticism, insults, or putdowns, and without any intellectual diagnosis implying wrongness. — Marshall B. Rosenberg

Veronika had accused her father of being a misogynist and Thomas had told Veronika to stop acting like a pseudo lesbian intellectual. — Liane Moriarty

The mind serves best when it's anchored in the Word of God. There is no danger then of becoming an intellectual without integrity ... — Flannery O'Connor

Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven. — Francis Beaumont

To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them. — Chinua Achebe

Just for being a religion at all you're as complicit as the rest in the retardation of the human intellectual progress. — Doug Stanhope

The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective. — Manuel Puig

Being an intellectual among intellectuals means nothing. There must be more. — Darnell Lamont Walker

Persons of slender intellectual stamina dread competition, as dwarfs are afraid of being run over in the street. — William Hazlitt

Scepticism is never certain of itself, being less a firm intellectual position than a pose to justify bad behavior. — Fulton J. Sheen