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Intellectual Quotes
"The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing."
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"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."
28
"The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect."
26
"Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism."
21
"Irony is the hygiene of the mind."
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"It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence."
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"Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine."
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"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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"Intellectuals are too sentimental for me."
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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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"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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"Will and intellect are one and the same thing."
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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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"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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"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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"Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain."
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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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"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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"He seemed to be in quest for mental food, not heart sustenance."
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"Never believe all that you hear. Always verify the original source of information."
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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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"Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets."
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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."
13
"Nothing will be impossible for the one who reads."
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"There is a gulf between the Arab peoples and Arab intellectuals."
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"Intellectuals would be much more accepted now than in the '40s."
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"It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle."
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"Soccer riots kill at most tens. Intellectuals' ideological riots sometimes kill millions."
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"Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals."
12
"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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"No one will teach you what you ought to know. You must search the truth for yourself."
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"The higher the voice the smaller the intellect."
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"My quest and passionate curiosity are the basis for my love for scientific adventure."
11
"No one was born a reader we learn to build the habit of reading."
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"No one can do the learning for you."
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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."
10
"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."
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"A mugwump is a person educated beyond his intellect."
10
"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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"I obtain great satisfaction out of using my intellect."
9
"Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way."
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"No one knows a man better than himself."
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"Nobody knows it all. You must keep learning."
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"Never assume you know it all. Ask questions."
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"Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect."
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