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Intellectual Quotes
“He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.”
“If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.”
Source: The Auto-biography of Goethe: Truth and Poetry: from My Own Life
Source: Impressions of Theophrastus Such: Top Novelist Focus
“The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.”
“An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.”
“Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.”
“Only when the heart loves can the intellect do great work.”
“What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.”
Source: The Opium of the Intellectuals
“Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.”
“It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.”
“I have great faith in fools,— self-confidence my friends will call it.”
“A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.”
“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.”
“Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary (or The Cynic's Wordbook: Unabridged with all the Definitions)
“Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.”
Source: Notebooks
Source: The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Point counter point
Source: Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist
“I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.”
“It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.”
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray (with an Essay by Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly)
Source: You've had your time: being the second part of the confessions of Anthony Burgess
“Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do.”
Source: George Washington Carver in his own words
“For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!”
“Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.”
Source: The Modern Temper
Source: Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher
“Whatever we believe about ourselves and our ability comes true for us.”
“I wish I knew as much about anything today as I knew about everything when I was twenty.”
“Longevity is the revenge of talent upon genius.”
Source: The evening colonnade
“Only the thinking man lives his life, the thoughtless man's life passes him by.”