Intellectual Quotes

• Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.

  Janis Joplin

  Inspirational, Strong Women, Intelligence

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  Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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  My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.

  George Washington

  Mothers Day, Beautiful, Mom

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, 'I was wrong'.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Sydney J. Harris (1985). “Pieces of Eight Pa”, Mariner Books

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• I think ideas only lead to change for intellectual people; and not even them. What really leads to change is experience. Life itself is the teacher.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Teacher, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: www.mightycompanions.org

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• The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot.

  Mark Twain

  Recovery, Animal, Intelligent

  Mark Twain (2009). “Mark Twain’s Book of Animals”, p.264, Univ of California Press

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• Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Funny, Wise

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• Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

  Immanuel Kant

  Inspirational, Philosophical, Play

  "General Systems" Vol. 7-8, by he Society for the Advancement of General Systems Theory, (p. 11), 1962.

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• Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.

  Bill Gates

  Money, Business, Bananas

  Attributed to Bill Gates in "The Wall Street Journal", December 29, 2011.

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• An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

  Charles Bukowski

  Art, Simple, People

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• It doesn't stand up to huge intellectual scrutiny.

  Andrew Lloyd Webber

  Scrutiny, Huge

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• He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Book, Communication, Humor

  Abraham Lincoln (1992). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln”, Plume

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• Be wary of the arrogant intellectual who comments from the stands without having played on the field.

  Ray Dalio

  Life, Investing, Arrogant

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• An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.

  Aldous Huxley

  Education, Wisdom, Witty

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• An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Men, Parks, Know How

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• Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Education

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• The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Life, War, Silly

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• The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. So long as men are not trained to withhold judgment in the absence of evidence, they will be led astray by cocksure prophets, and it is likely that their leaders will be either ignorant fanatics or dishonest charlatans. To endure uncertainty is difficult, but so are most of the other virtues.

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Long, Leader

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• Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.

  George Meredith

  Cynicism, Dandyism

  'The Egoist' (1879) ch. 7

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• The intellectual activity of those without power is always characterized as non-intellectual.

  Paulo Freire

  Justice, Diversity, Culture

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• We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Spiritual, Vision, Unseen

  Calvin Coolidge (2001). “The Price of Freedom: Speeches and Addresses”, p.377, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

  Albert Camus

  Knowledge, Responsibility, Intelligent

  Carnets, 1935-42 (Notebooks, 1962) p. 41

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• Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

  Thomas Sowell

  Liberty, Records, Politics

  Thomas Sowell (2011). “The Thomas Sowell Reader”, p.144, Basic Books

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• An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Leadership, Motivation, Military

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called 'Facts'. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Mind, Facts, Horror

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