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Eleanor Roosevelt

Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.

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George Meredith

Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.

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Seers with intellects

Intellect is behind a mission’s success.
Ideals it stands for matters the least.
One’s intellect sees it grow and branch.
Seers’ intellects not virtues make them great.
09.05.2010

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There are one-story intellects, two-story intellects, and three-story intellects with skylights. All fact collectors with no aim beyond their facts are one-story men. Two-story men compare reason and generalize, using labors of the fact collectors as well as their own. Three-story men idealize, imagine, and predict. Their best illuminations come from above through the skylight.

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Intellectuals are too sentimental for me.

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Edmund Wilson

Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.

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Intellect is superior

Intelligence is intellect.
Knowledge is not intelligence.
Intellect a special branch of intelligence.
Socrates was an intellectual.
11.07.2001, Pkd

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Rumi

Ode 1957: An intellectual

An intellectual is all the time showing off.

Lovers dissolve and become bewildered.

Intellectuals try not to drown,
while the whole purpose of loves
is drowning.

Intellectual invent
ways to rest, and then lie down~
in those beds.

Lovers feel ashamed
of comforting ideas.

You’ve seen a glob
of oil on water? That’s how a lover
sits with intellectuals, there, but alone
in a circle of himself.

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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 are so many pseudo-intellectuals.

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J.M. Coetzee

As you see, I do not treat the creation of fiction, that to say the invention and development of fantasies, as a form of abstract thought. I don't wish to deny the uses of the intellect, but sometimes one has the intuition that the intellect by itself will lead one nowhere.

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Kenneth Rexroth

Vulture

St. Thomas Aquinas thought
That vultures were lesbians
And fertilized by the wind.
If you seek the facts of life,
Papist intellectuals
Can be very misleading.

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My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.

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If there's an intellectual highway, there's also an intellectual subway.

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Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

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Intellects whose desires have outstripped their understanding.

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Albert Einstein

Intellectuals solve problems geniuses prevent them.

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Intellectuals are the most intolerant of all people.

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Albert Einstein

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

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Leonardo da Vinci

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

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Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.

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