Acknowledgment Quote by Anthony Daniels

If a man really knew himself he would utterly despise the ignorant notions others might form on a subject in which he had such…

— George Santayana

The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals have never…

— Aldous Huxley

Whatever the intellectual is too certain of, if he is healthily playful, he begins to find unsatisfactory. The meaning of his intellectual life lies…

— Richard Hofstadter

His contempt for humanity grew fiercer, and at last he came to realize that the world is made up mostly of fools and scoundrels.…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

“Many things we do naturally become difficult only when we try to make them intellectual subjects. It is possible to know so much about…

— Frank Herbert

The more a human being in his worldview approaches the goal, the hegemony of love in a moral universe, the more has he become…

— Peter Wessel Zapffe

“but it is a trait in the perversity of human nature to reject the obvious and the ready, for the far-distant and equivocal.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

“What used to be a jocular and usually benign ridicule of intellect and formal training has turned into a malign resentment of the intellectual…

— Thomas M. Nichols

The test of intellect is the refusal to belabor the obvious.

— Alfred Bester

The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction…

— Italo Calvino

“What he found impossible was to shut off his brain, to detach himself from the intriguing problems with which (he) was involved, or to…

— zelda popkin

“We still have not defined the intellectual yet: all we have are technicians of practical knowledge who either accommodate themselves to their contradiction or…

— Jean-Paul Sartre