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Intellectual Quotes
"Intellectuals are too sentimental for me."
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"Traveling is the only passion that doesn't need to feel shy in front of intellect."
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"Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine."
"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."
"Homer is the nice side of Al Bundy with the same intellect. I really like him and Al Bundy."
"Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way."
"The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Irony is the hygiene of the mind."
"Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity."
"Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain."
"The higher the voice the smaller the intellect."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect."
"Certainly the party counts a considerable number of intellectuals among its members, but I am by no means disposed to apologise for that."
"There is a gulf between the Arab peoples and Arab intellectuals."
"It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence."
"It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle."
"Intellectuals would be much more accepted now than in the '40s."
"A mugwump is a person educated beyond his intellect."
"Soccer riots kill at most tens. Intellectuals' ideological riots sometimes kill millions."
"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."
"Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice."
"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."
"Will and intellect are one and the same thing."
"Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals."
"Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets."
"I obtain great satisfaction out of using my intellect."
"The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing."
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