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She had never heard the word 'intellectual' used as a noun before she went to Barnard, and she took it to heart. It was a brave noun, a proud noun, a noun suggesting lifelong dedication to lofty things and a cool disdain for the commonplace. An intellectual might lose her virginity to a soldier in the park, but she could learn to look back on it with wry, amused detachment. An intellectual might have a mother who showed her underpants when drunk, but she wouldn't let it bother her. And Emily Grimes might not be an intellectual yet, but if she took copious notes in even the dullest of her classes, and if she read every night until her eyes ached, it was only a question of time. By Richard Yates Noun Barnard Intellectual Word Heart

The [true] intellectual is he who does not let harm done to others and nor let any harm done to even one's own self. By Dada Bhagwan True Harm Intellectual

We're intellectual opposites. Well, I'm intellectual and you're opposite. By Mae West Intellectual Opposites Opposite

Intellect is the ability to avoid belaboring the obvious. By Alfred Bester Intellect Obvious Ability Avoid Belaboring

To be an intellectual really means to speak a truth that allows suffering to speak. By Cornel West Speak Intellectual Truth Suffering

Intellect alone is a dry and rattling thing. By Ilka Chase Intellect Thing Dry Rattling

It is to be hoped you are not 'intellectual,' which is an unpardonable trait By Mary Maclane Intellectual Trait Hoped Unpardonable

Intellect is void of affection and sees an object as it stands in the light of science, cool and disengaged. The intellect goes out of the individual, floats over its own personality, and regards it as a fact, and not as I and mine. By Ralph Waldo Emerson Science Cool Disengaged Intellect Void

The intellectual is engage-he is pledged, committed, enlisted. What everyone else is willing to admit, namely that ideas and abstractions are of signal importance in human life, he imperatively feels. By Richard Hofstadter Committed Enlisted Pledged Intellectual Engagehe

An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts. By Albert Camus Intellectual Halves Watched Deny Question

Being an intellectual among intellectuals means nothing. There must be more. By Darnell Lamont Walker Intellectual

Intellect is neither practical nor impractical; it is extra-practical. By Richard Hofstadter Intellect Impractical Extrapractical Practical

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I'm not like a high intellectual. By Billy West Intellectual High

Occasionally, you will be given the chance to be either intellectual or pleasant. Leave being intellectual to others. By Ernie J Zelinski Occasionally Pleasant Intellectual Chance Leave

I am not an intellectual, I write with my body. And what I write is a moist fog. By Clarice Lispector Intellectual Body Write Fog Moist

Education leads to intellectual life. By Lailah Gifty Akita Education Life Leads Intellectual

We've no use for intellectuals in this outfit. What we need is chimpanzees. Let me give you a word of advice: never say a word to us about being intelligent. We will think for you, my friend. Don't forget it. By Louis-Ferdinand Celine Outfit Intellectuals Word Chimpanzees Advice

I would like to attribute my range of interests to being an independent intellectual, but although I'm independent, I'm not sure I qualify as an intellectual. Basically, I'm an old-fashioned amateur. By Anne Fadiman Intellectual Independent Attribute Range Interests

Intellectuals suck, Nathan. They are the most boring people in the world. By Paul Auster Nathan Intellectuals Suck World Boring

True intellect is that which resolves issues. All else is excess intellect; it causes harm. By Dada Bhagwan True Issues Intellect Resolves Harm

Intellectualism' is the belief that our mind comes upon a world complete in itself, and has the duty of ascertaining its contents; but has no power of re-determining its character, for that is already given. By William James Intellectualism Contents Character Belief Mind

The intellectual ... must try never to forget the arguments of the adversary, or the uncertainty of the future, or the faults of one's own side, or the underlying fraternity of ordinary men everywhere. By Raymond Aron Intellectual Adversary Future Side Forget

I was not naturally intellectual, but somebody whose interest had to be whetted, still the case sadly. By Jeremy Irons Intellectual Whetted Sadly Naturally Interest

Intellectuals range through the finest gradations of kind and quality: from those who are merely educated neurotics, usually with strong hidden reactionary tendencies, through mediocrities of all kinds, to men of real brains and sensibility, more or less stiffened into various respectabilities or substitutes for respectability. The number of Ignorant Specialists is large. The number of hysterics and compulsives is also large. By Louise Bogan Intellectuals Quality Neurotics Tendencies Sensibility

Real intelligence is a creative use of knowledge, not merely an accumulation of facts. The slow thinker who can finally come up with an idea of his own is more important to the world than a walking encyclopedia who hasn't learned how to use this information productively. By Susan Winebrenner Real Knowledge Facts Intelligence Creative

Somewhere in every intellectual is a dumb prick. By Saul Bellow Prick Intellectual Dumb

You don't need to be deep in order to be called intellectual. You need to create connectivity with the people by using the language that they can understand. You don't need to be an artist, because it comes out naturally. You don't need to be critic and poet, because what matters is that you believe in yourself. You just don't need to be envious for the happiness of other people. Throw all your bitterness away.Peace be with you! By Alon Calinao Dy Intellectual Deep Order Called People

If there's an intellectual highway, there's also an intellectual subway. By Stanley Crouch Intellectual Highway Subway

I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up. By Frank Lloyd Wright Intellectuals Hate Top Bottom

I'm not what you call your basic intellectual. By George H. W. Bush Intellectual Call Basic

Ideally, the pursuit of truth is said to be at the heart of the intellectual's business, but this credits his business too much and not quite enough. As with the pursuit of happiness, the pursuit of truth is itself gratifying whereas consummation often turns out to be elusive. Truth captured loses its glamour; truths long known and widely believed have a way of turning false with time; easy truths are bore and too many of them become half truths. Whatever the intellectual is too certain of, if he is healthily playful, he begins to find unsatisfactory. The meaning of his intellectual life lies not in the possession of truth but in the quest for new uncertainties. Harold Rosenberg summed up this side of the life of the mind supremely well when he said that the intellectual is one who turns answers into questions. By Richard Hofstadter Pursuit Truth Business Intellectual Truths

The usual duty of the "intellectual" is to argue for complexity and to insist that phenomena in the world of ideas should not be sloganized or reduced to easily repeated formulae. By Christopher Hitchens Intellectual Formulae Usual Duty Argue

The intellectual, the man of thought, doubt and analysis, should give the best of himself. By Tahar Ben Jelloun Intellectual Thought Doubt Analysis Man

What the intellectual craves above all else is to be taken seriously, to be treated as a decisive force in shaping history. He is far more at home in a society that weighs his every word and keeps close watch on his attitudes then in a society that cares not what he says or does. He would rather be persecuted than ignored. By Eric Hoffer History Society Intellectual Craves Treated

The action required to sustain human life is primarily intellectual; everything man needs has to be discovered by his mind and produced by his effort. By Ayn Rand Intellectual Effort Action Required Sustain

Genius is intellect constructive. By Ralph Waldo Emerson Genius Constructive Intellect

There are very few intellectual elites and those who think they are, are merely not and those who are not shows us the intellectual power of human mind. By Santosh Kalwar Intellectual Mind Elites Shows Power

Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values. By Gerald Brenan Intellectuals People Ideas Importance

Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap By Jacques Barzun Deficiency Opinion Handicap Seldom Clear

Intellect is merely a narrow and highly specific kind of thing that we DO, but our immediacy relates us to what we naturally and essentially ARE, the actualities of our full-dimensional existence. By Kenny Smith Intellect Existence Narrow Highly Specific

Intellect is not speaking and logicising; it is seeing and ascertaining. By Thomas Carlyle Intellect Logicising Ascertaining Speaking

The education of the intellect is a great business; but an unconsecd intellect is the saddest sight on which the sun looks down. By Edwin Chadwick Intellect Business Education Great Unconsecd

I had to fight the intellectual label when I started in television, because, first of all, it's not going to help you commercially, and also, it wasn't particularly true of me. I mean, if anybody thought I was an intellectual, they probably had never really seen one. By Dick Cavett Television Commercially Intellectual Fight Label

Intellect is a part of a good faith. Intellect is the light, the heart is the direction. By Tariq Ramadan Intellect Faith Part Good Light

To be intellectual does not require one to be alienated and oppositional. By Nancy Pearcey Oppositional Intellectual Require Alienated

We started this mostly from an intellectual place. By Melinda Gates Place Started Intellectual

Every breeze wafts intelligence from country to country, every wave rolls it and gives it forth, and all in turn receive it. There is a vast commerce of ideas, there are marts and exchanges for intellectual discoveries, and a wonderful fellowship of those individual intelligences which make up the minds and opinions of the age. By Daniel Webster Country Breeze Wafts Wave Rolls

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas. By Susan Sontag Intelligence Ideas Taste Kind

If by 'intellectual' you mean people who are a special class who are in the business of imposing thoughts and forming ideas for people in power, and telling people what they should believe ... they're really more a kind of secular priesthood, whose task it is to uphold the doctrinal truths of the society. And the population SHOULD be anti-intellectual in that repect. By Noam Chomsky People Intellectual Power Special Class

Academics are not intellectuals; they are not curious, they build their stolid tents of specialized knowledge and stay securely in them. By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Academics Intellectuals Curious Build Stolid

With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word 'intellectual,' of course, became the swear word it deserved to be. By Ray Bradbury Jumpers Racers Tinkerers Grabbers Snatchers

Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism. By Criss Jami Absurdity Intellectualism Ecstasy

We are all so to speak intellectuals about something. By Randall Jarrell Speak Intellectuals

Intellectual growth is when you surpass the barrier of puerility, puzzling people with your dazzling creativity. By Michael Bassey Johnson Intellectual Puerility Puzzling Creativity Growth

Intellect is the virtue of ignoring one's emotions' attempt to contaminate one's opinions. By Mokokoma Mokhonoana Intellect Opinions Virtue Ignoring Emotions

The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all. By Oscar Wilde Thing Intellect Plays Instrument

Intellect is limited, but it has one great merit; it can recognise its limits! By Raheel Farooq Intellect Limited Merit Limits Great

The human mind demands intellectual expansion and expression. By Brandon Notch Expression Human Mind Demands Intellectual

The intellect shows profit-loss in all worldly things. It shows duality. The intellect is the mother of duality. By Dada Bhagwan Things Duality Shows Intellect Profitloss

Eco sees the intellectual as an organizer of culture, someone who can run a magazine or a museum. An administrator, in fact. I think this is a melancholy situation for an intellectual. By Antonio Tabucchi Eco Culture Museum Organizer Run

My work is never intellectual. I never make a negative unless emotionally moved by my subject. By Edward Weston Intellectual Work Subject Make Negative

The case against intellect is founded on a set of fictional and wholly abstract antagonisms. Intellect is pitted against feeling, on the ground that it is somehow inconsistent with warm emotion. It is pitted against character, because it is widely believed that intellect stands for mere cleverness, which transmutes easily into the sly and diabolical. It is pitted against practicality, since theory is held to be opposed to practice. It is pitted against democracy, since intellect is felt to be a form of distinction that defies egalitarianism ... . Once the validity of these antagonisms is accepted, then the case for intellect ... is lost. By Charles P. Pierce Pitted Intellect Founded Set Fictional

I'm not anti-intellectual, just anti-misery. By Marty Rubin Antiintellectual Antimisery

The intellectual is and only can be a militant, engaged as a singularity among others, embarked on the project of co-research aimed at making the multitude. The intellectual is thus not 'out in front' to determine the movements of history or 'on the sidelines' to critique them but rather completely 'inside. By Michael Hardt Intellectual Militant Engaged Embarked Multitude

Human intelligence is richer and more dynamic than we have been led to believe by formal academic education. By Ken Robinson Human Education Intelligence Richer Dynamic

The term "intellect" includes all those powers by which we acquire, retain, and extend our knowledge; as perception, memory, imagination, judgment, and the like. By William Fleming Intellect Retain Memory Imagination Judgment

The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not born into the class he must soon insert himself into it, in order to exist. He is the fine nervous flower of the bourgeoisie. By Louise Bogan Product Exist Intellectual Middleclass Born

Intellect is not going to be your home. It is a small instrument, to be used only for passing from instinct to intuition. So only the person who uses his intellect to go beyond it can be called intelligent. Intuition is existential. Instinct is natural. Intellect is just groping in the dark. The faster you move beyond intellect, the better; intellect can be a barrier to those who think nothing is beyond it. Intellect can be a beautiful passage for those who understand that there is certainly something beyond it. By Osho Intellect Home Intuition Instinct Instrument

The intellect is a cold thing and a merely intellectual idea will never stimulate thought in the same manner that a spiritual idea does. By Ernest Holmes Idea Intellect Cold Thing Intellectual

Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. By Ursula K. Le Guin Intellectual Interesting Pain Evil

Intellectually I'm probably a Republican. By Sting Republican Intellectually

Though it always comes as a surprise to intellectuals, there are some forms of stupidity that one must be highly intelligent and educated to commit. By J. Budziszewski Intellectuals Commit Surprise Forms Stupidity

My father was a doctor, but he was what I would call an intellectual - very well-read and very interested in knowledge. He insisted that I get as much education as my brothers. By Shirin Neshat Doctor Intellectual Knowledge Father Call

Intellectuals are too sentimental for me. By Margaret Anderson Intellectuals Sentimental

We all know people who become strongly identified with, and attached to, their intelligence. It can become a big ego trap, harmful to oneself or others. Intelligence can also be a great blessing, providing invaluable clarity. By Joseph Goldstein People Strongly Identified Attached Intelligence

Intelligence is the capacity to perceive the essential, the what is; and to awaken this capacity, in oneself and in others, is education. By Jiddu Krishnamurti Capacity Intelligence Essential Education Perceive

The intellect perpetuates the worldly life. By Dada Bhagwan Life Intellect Perpetuates Worldly

Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism. By Chuck Palahniuk Give Mechanism Rampant Intellectualism Coping

Intellectual life requires for its expansion and manifestation the influences and assimilation of the interests and affections of others. By Jane Addams Intellectual Life Requires Expansion Manifestation

Real intellectuals like to escape once in a while from their world of intellect. By Desi Arnaz Real Intellect Intellectuals Escape World

Intellectualism - the conception of man as above all a thinking animal, consciously adapting means to rationally chosen ends - fell sick with Rousseau, took to its bed with Kant, and died with Schopenhauer. By Will Durant Intellectualism Rousseau Kant Schopenhauer Animal

If you become indignant, this elevates you to the plane of intellectual. By Tom Wolfe Indignant Intellectual Elevates Plane

The intellect is a beautiful servant but a terrible master. Intellect is the power tool of our separateness. The intuitive, compassionate heart is the doorway to our unity. By Ram Dass Master Intellect Beautiful Servant Terrible

Intelligence is the seeing of what is. By Jiddu Krishnamurti Intelligence

The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing. By Sigmund Freud Hearing Voice Intellect Soft Rest

The belief seems to be spreading that intellectuals are no wiser as mentors, and no worthier as exemplars, than the witch doctors or priests of old. I share that skepticism. A dozen people picked at random on the street are at heart as likely to offer sensible views on moral and political matters as a cross-section of the intelligentsia. But I would go further. One of the principal lessons of our tragic century, which has seen so many millions of innocent lives sacrificed to improve the lot of humanity, is - beware intellectuals.3 By Os Guinness Mentors Exemplars Belief Spreading Intellectuals

Intelligence is derived from two words - inter and legere - inter meaning 'between' and legere meaning 'to choose'. An intelligent person, therefore, is one who has learned 'to choose between'. He knows that good is better than evil, that confidence should supersede fear, that love is superior to hate, that gentleness is better than cruelty, forbearance than intolerance, compassion than arrogance, and that truth has more virtue than ignorance. By J. Martin Klotsche Inter Meaning Legere Choose Intelligence

The intellect is a very nice whirligig toy, but how people take it seriously is more than I can understand. By Ezra Pound Toy Understand Intellect Nice Whirligig

I've seen too many intellectuals lately. I get very tired of the precious intellects who must speak diamonds every time they open their mouths. I get tired of battling for each space of air for the mind. That's why I stayed away from people for so long, and now that I am meeting people, I find that I must return to my cave. By Charles Bukowski Intellectuals Tired People Mouths Precious

Intelligence is a way of thinking, not a choice of words. By Mokokoma Mokhonoana Intelligence Thinking Words Choice

Intellect is not wisdom. By Thomas Sowell Intellect Wisdom

Intellectual work is an act of creation. It is as if the mental image that is studied over a period of time were to sprout appendages like an ameba - outgrowths that extend in all directions while avoiding one obstacle after another - before interdigitating with related ideas. By Santiago Ramon Y Cajal Intellectual Creation Work Act Ameba

Intellectuals are good at seeing the big picture. But they are not so good at process. By Michael Ignatieff Intellectuals Picture Good Big Process

Intellection must address the matter of its feeling. By Philip Rieff Intellection Feeling Address Matter

The intelligence of an individual in not a fixed quantity. By Alfred Binet Quantity Intelligence Individual Fixed

Intellectual activity in a culture is not a one-way flow between the great minds and passive recipients; it is a discourse, a complex marketplace-like conglomeration of intellectual exchanges involving many participants all trying to manipulate the ideas available to them in order to explain, justify, lay blame for, or otherwise make sense of what is happening around them. Everyone, not just the great minds, participates in this complicated process. By Gordon S. Wood Justify Intellectual Great Recipients Discourse

No one can be as intellectually slothful as a really smart person By Stephen King Person Intellectually Slothful Smart

Let's face it, most of us are not half as smart as we may sometimes think we are and for intellectuals, not one-tenth as smart. By Thomas Sowell Smart Intellectuals Face Half Onetenth

Intellect really exists in its products; its kingdom is here. By Samuel Taylor Coleridge Intellect Products Exists Kingdom