Overintellectualization Quotes & Sayings

Libraries are brothels for the mind. Which means that librarians are the madams, greeting punters, understanding their strange tastes and needs, and pimping their books. — Guy Browning

The overintellectualization of surrealism can be a bromide. A dream interpreted is a deflated dream. — Graham Joyce

It's fun to be creative and innovative and come up with something crazy. So I need people to work with who are not going to be afraid to take it to the left a bit. — Aaliyah

It is one thing to say, "Some men shall rule," quite another to declare, "All men shall rule," and that in virtue of the most primitive, the most rudimentary attribute they possess, that namely of sex. — Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi

I'll admit - I was honored to be on the cover of Time. — Ethel Merman

A rug feels like a lion, but that doesn't mean you can ride it. — Lemony Snicket

A true friend is like a good book, the inside is better than the cover. — Anonymous

Myth is the system of basic metaphors, images, and stories that informs the perceptions, memories, and aspirations of a people; provides the rationale for its institutions, rituals and power structure; and gives a map of the purpose and stages of life. — Sam Keen

But, the truth is and we can argue about whether this is right or not as long as we want to, but the fact is that women really do spend more time with their families. Until I can find a man who can tell me the dates of all of his nieces and nephews birthdays and get presents out to them regularly, I'm going to stay by that statement. — Cokie Roberts

BEING ABLE to lighten up is the key to feeling at home with your body, mind, and emotions, to feeling worthy to live on this planet. — Pema Chodron

She became certain that there was something in the dark behind her: something very old and very slow. Her heart beat so hard and so loudly she was scared it would burst out of her chest. — Neil Gaiman

Sometimes there were kids who were simply born to be thirty, or fifty, or seventy; I could see their unfinished teenaged faces overlaid with the transparencies of their aged selves and had to resist telling them so - that the maturity that wanted was going to happen, that someday they would look as completed as they felt, in their fleeting, truest moments. — Holly LeCraw

A genuine satyagraha should never excite contempt in the opponent even when it fails to command regard or respect. — Mahatma Gandhi

He who is able to accept everything gladly from the Lord - including darkness, dryness, flatness - and completely disregard self is he who lives for Him. - — Watchman Nee

Movie and television stars lay down the law of
fashions, manners, speech, and even moral behavior. It has been proven that a movie or a television program can brainwash. — Billy Graham

That sort of overintellectualization obscures the patterns of the Wild Woman and the instinctual nature of women. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes