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

classic quote by Eleanor Roosevelt
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Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.

classic quote by George Meredith
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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

poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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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.

quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
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Intellectuals are too sentimental for me.

quote by Margaret Anderson
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Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.

quote by Edmund Wilson
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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

poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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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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poem by Rumi
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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.

quote by Douglas Sirk
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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.

quote by J.M. Coetzee
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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.

poem by Kenneth Rexroth from A Bestiary (1956)
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My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.

quote by Robert M. Hutchins
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If there's an intellectual highway, there's also an intellectual subway.

quote by Stanley Crouch
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Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

quote by Theodor Adorno
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Intellects whose desires have outstripped their understanding.

quote by Friedrich August von Hayek
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Intellectuals solve problems geniuses prevent them.

quote by Albert Einstein
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Intellectuals are the most intolerant of all people.

quote by Paul Duncun
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Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

quote by Albert Einstein
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The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

quote by Leonardo da Vinci
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Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.

quote by Imre Lakatos
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