They do not predict, however, other values we hold in high esteem at the college level, such as motivation, creativity, independent thought, intellectual curiosity and perseverance.
Thus intellectual courage and perseverance, not just good memory and perception, might figure centrally in an explanation of how a knower arrived at the truth.
Despite the symbolism of aging (pallor framed by gray curls, furrowed brow, lusterless eyes inside dark circles, prominent nasal labial lines, fading features) the conjured portrait is of beauty, refinement, dignity, nobility, perseverance, intellectual cultivation.
In that case, what should be taught are academic or intellectual virtues like thoroughness, perseverance, intellectual honesty.
There were no murmurs in the crowd as he plucked and fiddled the strings of his cello in the Nolan gallery, a fragile testament to perseverance and intellectual survival.
If the book is not exactly a call to arms, it's certainly an appeal to an intellectual and spiritual resilience, to a doughty perseverance, a hanging on to hope.
In Virtues of the Mind, Linda Zagzebski (1996, 114) gives a very comprehensive list of intellectual virtues, adding such items as intellectual humility, perseverance, adaptability and communicativeness.
Finally, "virtues of intellectual courage" include a willingness to conceive and examine alternatives to popular ideas, perseverance in the face of opposition from others, and determination to see an inquiry through to the end.
"As an intellectual he bestowed upon the games of golf and bridge all the enthusiasm and perseverance that he withheld from books and ideas".
Rous' colleagues, including the scientists René Dubos and Charles B. Huggins, lauded Rous' personal and professional qualities, writing that he was gifted with supreme intellectual powers, unfailing integrity and honesty, a remarkably intuitive sense for the science itself, great perseverance and work ethic, and an enormous zest for life.
