"Intellectualism came very late to America. That's why Americans are so proud of it. I found very few real intellectuals in America. But there are so many pseudo-intellectuals."

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"Intellectualism came very late to America. That's why Americans are so proud of it. I found very few real intellectuals in America. But there are so many pseudo-intellectuals."

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

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"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

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

Marcel Proust, French Author

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"No one knows a man better than himself."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence."

Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch Philosopher

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"Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

Intellectual, Intellect, Obstinacy, Result, Will

"Intellectuals would be much more accepted now than in the '40s."

Parker Stevenson, American Actor

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"A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect."

Charles Lamb, English Critic

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"I considered that the homes that people live in exactly describe their lives."

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"And it really began with Einstein. We attended his lectures. Now the theory of relativity remained - and still remains - only a theory. It has not been proven. But it suggested a completely different picture of the physical world."

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"But I always wanted my characters to be more than cyphers for the failings of their world. And I never had to look too hard to find a part of myself in them."

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

"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."

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

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

"No one knows a man better than himself."

"It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle."

"It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence."

"Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect."

"Intellectuals would be much more accepted now than in the '40s."

"A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect."

Explore more quotes by Douglas Sirk

"If I can say one thing for my pictures, it is a certain craftsmanship. A thought which has gone into every angle. There is nothing there without an optical reason."

"I considered that the homes that people live in exactly describe their lives."

"And it really began with Einstein. We attended his lectures. Now the theory of relativity remained - and still remains - only a theory. It has not been proven. But it suggested a completely different picture of the physical world."

"But I always wanted my characters to be more than cyphers for the failings of their world. And I never had to look too hard to find a part of myself in them."

"I think the great artists, especially in literature, have always thought with the heart."

"If I couldn't read, I couldn't live."

"You have to think with the heart."

"A director in Hollywood in my time couldn't do what he wanted to do."

"And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble."

"My idea at this time, which was slowly developing, was to create a comedie humaine with little people, average people - samples from every period in American life."