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One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

Alice James

An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.

Dan Rather
US television newscaster (1931 - )

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward.

John Maynard Keynes
English economist (1883 - 1946)

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

Ayn Rand, The Virtue of Selfishness, 1964
US (Russian-born) novelist (1905 - 1982)

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
English novelist (1797 - 1851)

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.

John Maynard Keynes
English economist (1883 - 1946)

Science would be ruined if (like sports) it were to put competition above everything else, and if it were to clarify the rules of competition by withdrawing entirely into narrowly defined specialties. The rare scholars who are nomads-by-choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines.

Benoit Mandelbrot

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
US general & Republican politician (1890 - 1969)

During [these] periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights which give so much joy and delight.

Fritjof Capra, physicist

An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.

Aldous Huxley
English critic & novelist (1894 - 1963)

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.

Mark Twain, What Is Man? (1906)
US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910)

Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.

G. M. Trevelyan, English Social History (1942)
British historian (1876 - 1962)

The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Natural History of Intellect (1893)
US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882)

Music, verily, is the mediator between intellectual and sensuous life... the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

Ludwig van Beethoven
German Romantic composer (1770 - 1827)

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

Mary Shelley

The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual -- when it begins to ignore the passions, the motions -- it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.

Isaac Bashevis Singer
US (Polish-born) Jewish author (1904 - 1991)

A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today. The Western world has lost its civic courage, both as a whole and separately, in each country, in each government, in each political party, and, of course, in the United Nations. Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling and intellectual elites...

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Commencement Address at Harvard University, June 8, 1978.

...in song the words tend to lose their significance, do often lose it, while at the other extreme, in current prose it is the musical value that tends to disappear - so that verse stands symmetrically, as it were, between song, on the one hand, and prose on the other - and is thus admirably and delicately balanced between the sensual and the intellectual power of language.

Paul Valery
French critic & poet (1871 - 1945)

Jargon allows us to camouflage intellectual poverty with verbal extravagance.

David Pratt

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