Intellectual Rigor Quotes

#1. The claim in Psalms that "the heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament proclaims His works" (Psalms 19:2) is not a mere metaphor. The study of nature, even with all its intellectual rigor, is filled with spiritual wonder.

Gerald Schroeder

#2. Tesch seems to be someone who mistakes rudeness for intellectual rigor.

Emily St. John Mandel

#3. Jesuits encourage an intellectual rigor in a way that I like.

Alexander Payne

#4. Deep to me connotes intellectual rigor, not fashionable obscurity or the unnecessarily academic.

Alex Payne

#5. It may be that there are kernels of truth in a few of these doctrines, but their widespread acceptance
betokens a lack of intellectual rigor, an absence of skepticism, a need to replace experiments by desires.

Carl Sagan

#6. I believe in kindness and niceness and lots of spiritual things, but the real intellectual rigor and quest of logic is something that I'm afraid takes incredibly hard work and we live in an age in which hard work is if not actively deprecated or denigrated it is run away from or ignored.

Stephen Fry

#7. I went to work for Catholics United for the Faith, and I basically found myself in the midst of the traditionalist branch of the Catholic revival. There is an intellectual rigor that is very much valued there and that I was in awe of.

Regina Doman

#8. Again, I hear almost everyday from atheists who write off religion as primitive, premodern nonsense. I summon Aquinas, Augustine, Paul [of Tarsus], Teresa of Avila, Joseph Ratzinger, and Edith Stein-in all their intellectual rigor-as allies in the the struggle against this dismissive atheism.

Robert Barron

#9. It's always gratifying to share a hobby with a friend, and pining for erstwhile suitors falls into that category. In the months to come, Libby and I would analyze our respective exes with the gusto and intellectual rigor of Jesuits.

Patricia Marx

#10. No matter how much the fool has been taught to road, exceeds the fool that's sits at home.

Vivek Sahni

#11. Trust-fund baby. Jet setter. Poshly accented mechanic. She hadn't quite figured him out.

Terri L. Austin

#12. Every day, in every way, I'm getting better and better.

Emile Coue

#13. When I was onstage doing the work, adrenaline killed the pain because I never hurt in front of an audience.

Jerry Lewis

#14. Man's worst enemies are boredom and discontent.

George W. Buck

#15. In intellectual honesty, we should be willing to study and explore the spiritual life with all the rigor and determination we would give to any field of research.

Richard J. Foster

#16. Strenuous intellectual work and the study of God's Nature are the angels that will lead me through all the troubles of this life with consolation, strength, and uncompromising rigor.

Albert Einstein

#17. I think that magic, at its root, is a very abstract notion. There's no real, approved definition. And, in that sense, it's like love; you can only see magic by the effect it has on people.

Drummond Money-Coutts

#18. It felt as if everything that had happened so far in my life had been leading me to this point, preparing me for this task, and that I was uniquely equipped to pursue this quest. It was a perfect collision of personality, past experience, purpose, and timing.

Roz Savage

#19. If men were stubborn just in proportion as they were right, stubbornness would take her seat among the virtues; but men are generally stubborn just in proportion as they are ignorant and wrong.

Josh Billings

#20. I don't think I'm one of those guys who won't pick up a racket for three years ... I love hitting tennis balls.

Andy Roddick

#21. We have a lot of rhetoric today about "high rigor" and you often hear terms like that thrown about when discussing the Common Core. But the American education system historically has not embraced intellectual seriousness.

Dana Goldstein

#22. Biblical faith lives at the intersection of shocking honesty and glorious hope.

Paul David Tripp