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Intellectual Quotes
"Traveling is the only passion that doesn't need to feel shy in front of intellect."
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"Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity."
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"Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism."
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"The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect."
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"Irony is the hygiene of the mind."
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"The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing."
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"Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine."
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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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"Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain."
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"Never believe all that you hear. Always verify the original source of information."
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"Certainly the party counts a considerable number of intellectuals among its members, but I am by no means disposed to apologise for that."
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"It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence."
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"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."
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"Will and intellect are one and the same thing."
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"Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets."
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"Homer is the nice side of Al Bundy with the same intellect. I really like him and Al Bundy."
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"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."
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"Intellectuals would be much more accepted now than in the '40s."
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"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."
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"Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals."
7
"We do not have many intellectuals who can speak out for us internationally. We have no writers who are recognized, respected and loved outside the Arab world."
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"A mugwump is a person educated beyond his intellect."
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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."
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"I obtain great satisfaction out of using my intellect."
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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."
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"Futurism: This was a movement of intellectuals who wanted to replace tradition with the modern world of machinery, speed, violence, and public relations. It proves that we should be careful what intellectuals wish for, because we might get it."
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"Intellectuals are too sentimental for me."
5
"Nothing will be impossible for the one who reads."
5
"There is a gulf between the Arab peoples and Arab intellectuals."
5
"It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle."
5
"Soccer riots kill at most tens. Intellectuals' ideological riots sometimes kill millions."
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"No one can do the learning for you."
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"No one will teach you what you ought to know. You must search the truth for yourself."
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"No one knows a man better than himself."
4
"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."
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"Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice."
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"Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way."
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"Our big mistake in modern intellectualism is first and foremost its lack of nuance. We have made science synonymous with atheism - a presupposed conception and yet, another means to non sequiturs - and therefore, to a number of enthusiasts determined to go the further, anti-theism. Hereby let us observe that science has long served best and should be, if none other, the one discipline, if at all possible, free of potential ideology, pro-religious or anti-religious, and/or biased presupposition in order to maintain the true authenticity and the full reliability of its nature."
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"The higher the voice the smaller the intellect."
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"It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale."
3
"No one was born a reader we learn to build the habit of reading."
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"Never assume you know it all. Ask questions."
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"Nobody knows it all. You must keep learning."
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"My quest and passionate curiosity are the basis for my love for scientific adventure."
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"Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect."
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