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"Never believe all that you hear. Always verify the original source of information."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Intellectual, Believe, Verify, Information, Never

"But let no one imagine that we were mere ascetics. There is no more complex pleasure than thought, and it was to thought that we delivered ourselves over."

Jorge Luis Borges, Argentinian Poet

Intellectual, Thought, Pleasure, Intellect, Reflection

"Nothing will be impossible for the one who reads."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Intellectual, Impossible, Reads, One, Knowledge

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

Marcel Proust, French Author

Intellectual, Intellectuals, Saying

"No one knows a man better than himself."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Intellectual, Know, Man, Self, Identity

"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

"Irony is the hygiene of the mind."

Elizabeth Bibesco, British Poet

Intellectual, Hygiene, Irony, Mind

"Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

Intellectual, Intellect, Vulgarity, Will

"We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without touching the bottom."

Tahar Ben Jelloun, French Poet

Intellectual, Intellectuals, Mediocrity, State

"I'm not one of those James Joyce intellectuals who can stand back and look at the whole edifice... It was a slow process for me to just crawl out of it, like a snake leaving his skin behind."

Frank McCourt, Irish Author

Intellectual, Intellectuals, Skin

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"I was as repelled by the French as I was attracted by their country."

Nation

"I have always fought for ideas - until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and flashes of vision which enlighten."

Creativity

"In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person."

Love

"Life for me has been exactly what I thought it would be, a cake, which I have eaten and had too."

Life

"Self-preservation is the first responsibility."

Self-Preservation

"It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane."

Sane

"I defied nothing at all. I ignored the law because I didn't know it existed. It didn't occur to me that anyone would want to curb my inspiration."

Inspirational

"My greatest enemy is reality. I have fought it successfully for thirty years."

Enemy

"Intellectuals are too sentimental for me."

Intellectual