Intellectual Quotes

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This film business, perhaps more so in America than in Europe, has always been about young sexuality. It's not true of theatre, but in America,… — Jacqueline Bisset
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees. — William Blake
To generalize is to be an idiot. — William Blake
In politics stupidity is not a handicap. — Napoleon Bonaparte
An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike. — Spiro T. Agnew
Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual. — Jorge Luis Borges
The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe… — Robert Bork
What I do is I write mainly about very personal and rather lonely feelings, and I explore them in a different way each time. You… — David Bowie
My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense. — Helen Gurley Brown
An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way. — Charles Bukowski
A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual. — Anthony Burgess
Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual… — Abdallah II
Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life. — Lord Byron
Jesus did not get stuck in intellectual arguments with people. He did not go for the intellect; He went for the conscience. He spoke to… — Kirk Cameron
God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that. — Joseph Campbell
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. — Albert Camus
The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other. — Albert Camus
Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it. — Orson Scott Card
Let each become all that he was created capable of being. — Thomas Carlyle
Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute… — Alexis Carrel

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