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Quote by Ezra Pound

“The intellect is a very nice whirligig toy, but how people take it seriously is more than I can understand.”

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Ezra Pound was an American poet, literary critic, and economist. Born on October 30, 1885, and passing away on November 1, 1972, he is regarded as one of the most influential poets of the 20th century. Known for his work in the Imagist movement and his extensive contributions to literature, Pound played a pivotal role in shaping modern poetry. more

“The only chance for victory over the brainwash is the right of every man to have his ideas judged one at a time. You never get clarity as long as you have these packaged words, as long as a word is used by twenty-five people in twenty-five different ways. That seems to me to be the first fight, if there is going to be any intellect left.”

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Author:Ezra Pound

“Intelligence, in diapers, is invisible. And when it matures, out the window it flies. We have to pounce on it earlier.”

Life Inspirational Window Intelligent Invisible Diapers

Author:Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

“The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.”

Has Beens Play Serious Intelligent Instruments Intelligence Intellect Serious Things

Book:The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays

Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays

“I'd been a thriller reader all my life.”

Reader Thrillers

Author:Lee Child

“I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up.”

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Author:Frank Lloyd Wright

“Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out.”

Found Intelligent

Book:Wilde Complete Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest; A Woman of No Importance; Salome; The Duchess of Padua; Vera, or the Nihilists; A Florentine Tragedy; La Sainte Courtisane

Source: Wilde Complete Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest; A Woman of No Importance; Salome; The Duchess of Padua; Vera, or the Nihilists; A Florentine Tragedy; La Sainte Courtisane

“Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use.”

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Book:Right Wing Women

Source: Right Wing Women

“Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.”