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"Cultivate the frontal portion of her brain as much as that of man is cultivated, and she will stand his equal at least. Even now, where her mind has been called out at all, her intellect is as bright, as capacious, and as powerful as his."

Ernestine Rose, American Activist

Intellectual, Intellect, Man, Mind, Now

"My quest and passionate curiosity are the basis for my love for scientific adventure."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Intellectual, Quest, Curiosity, Love, Science

"Never assume you know it all. Ask questions."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Intellectual, Assume, Know, Ask, Questions

"No one can do the learning for you."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Intellectual, Learning, Self, Responsibility, Knowledge

"Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

Intellectual, Wisdom, Truth, Life, Power

"Nobody knows it all. You must keep learning."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Intellectual, Know, Learning, Keep, Knowledge

"Be convinced that, if man were able to reach the end without preparatory studies, such studies would not be preparatory but tiresome and utterly superfluous."

Maimonides, Spanish Philosopher

Intellectual, End, Man

"Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice."

George Gissing, British Novelist

Intellectual, Vice

"Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life-the life which has a seed of ennobling thought and purpose within it-can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances."

George Eliot, British Author

Intellectual, Intellect, Grief, Struggle, Thought

"Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way."

Marcel Proust, French Author

Intellectual, Intellectuals, Saying

Explore more quotes by Edmund Wilson

"The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination."

Imagination, Vision

"All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely."

Hollywood,

"Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals."

Intellectual, Intellectuals, Marxism, Opium

"If I could only remember that the days were, not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart."

Food, Peace, Heart, Safety

"No two persons ever read the same book."

Reading, Read

"His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship."

Life, Style

"The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society."

Imagination, Society, Possibility

"Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine."

Genius, Will

"There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income."

Income, Nothing