My intellect was my greatest vanity.

All is vanity, and discovering it - the greatest vanity.

— Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

My greatest vanity is my skin. It is the colour of gingerbread and, thanks to my mother's genes, smooth and mostly blemish-free.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“To those who suspect that intellect is a subversive force in society, it will not do to reply that intellect is really a safe,…

— Richard Hofstadter

“The gap (between intellectuals and politicians) divides writing hands, talking heads and thinking minds of this country into two sections. One section flaunts academic…

— Mohammad Badrul Ahsan

“I was utterly convinced that an intellectual could never be anything but an intellectual, was simply not capable of being anything else, that his…

— Leonid Borodin

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…

— Douglas Sirk

“Part of the blame lies with intellectuals who are unable or unwilling to convey their ideas in terms that will play down to the…

— Michael Perry

“A professional headshot in front of a bookshelf says you're an intellectual. A professional headshot peeking though a bookshelf says you're probably under a…

— Ryan Lilly

Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.

— George Orwell

The "intellectuals" will always have problems, because they always need to "know." They're often the most spiritually bankrupt people, because they never let go;…

— George Harrison

Real intellectuals like to escape once in a while from their world of intellect.

— Desi Arnaz

There was no point in seeking to convert the intellectuals. For intellectuals would never be converted and would anyway always yield to the stronger,…

— Joseph Goebbels

Love does not traffic in a marketplace, nor use a huckster's scales. Its joy, like the joy of the intellect, is to feel itself…

— Oscar Wilde

…to abuse the intellect for reasons of pride, vanity, or escape from responsibility, is the fruit of that same tree.

— Walter M. Miller, Jr

The object of geometry in all its measuring and computing, is to ascertain with exactness the plan of the great Geometer, to penetrate the…

— Benjamin Peirce