Woodrow Wilson Quotes

A good sort of man is this Darwin, and well meaning, but with very little intellect.

You are not just a funny person or just a journalist. Most people are hybrids of having a smart opinion and a great sense of humor.

Red hair, sir, in my opinion, is dangerous.

I really like Jon Snow in quite an unhealthy way - he's got a jaunty tie and a fast brain.

Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function; living is the functionary.

I always feel as if my books came half out of Lyell's brain... & therefore that when seeing a thing never seen by Lyell, one yet saw it partially through his eyes.

Intellectualism' is the belief that our mind comes upon a world complete in itself, and has the duty of ascertaining its contents; but has no power of re-determining its character, for that is already given.

I think Stockman is an interesting sort of amalgam.

Brains and character rule the world. The most distinguished Frenchman of the last century said: Men succeed less by their talents than their character. There were scores of men a hundred years ago who had more intellect than Washington. He outlives and overrides them all by the influence of his character.

Intellectuals have opinions on subjects they just heard about five minutes ago.

True success depends more on character than on intellect.

I believe it was Gayelord Hauser, the nutritionist, who said, 'You are what you eat,' but if you happen to be an intellectual, you are what you quote.

I accept the fact I am an unregenerate egghead.

Frances Bellamy thought the changes spoiled the poetry of it. He was a pretty stern guy. Everybody has some sense of humor, but I don't think he had much.

Oh! I don't think I would like to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't know what to talk to him about.

Listen, no part of me is more definitive of who I am than my brain.

A man's bookcase will tell you everything you'll ever need to know about him," my father had told me more than once. "A businessman has business books and a dream has novels and books of poetry. Most women like reading about love, and a true revolutionary will have books about the minutiae of overthrowing the oppressor. A person with no books is inconsequential in a modern setting, but a peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.

I'm not what you call your basic intellectual.

The trouble with me is, I belong to a vanishing race. I'm one of the intellectuals.

Isaiah Berlin described the intellectuals of [Mikhail] Bakunin's "Red bureaucracy" as a "secular priesthood.

I love funny women, and just being around them talking is fine with me. I love an interesting mind.

The idealist regards facts as provisional.

People think I hate Billy Martin. I don't. I hate some of the things he did. And I will say I don't understand him. Billy Martin is not an intellectual, but there is a cunningness to him that is something to behold.

It never occurred to him to be spiritually won over to the enemy. Many moderns, inured to a weak worship of intellect and force, might have wavered in their allegiance under this oppression of a great personality. . . . But this was a kind of modern meanness to which Syme could not sink even in his extreme morbidity. Like any man, he was coward enough to fear great force; but he was not coward enough to admire it.

[Kaz] is a great scholar, very funny - a true man of no rank!