Intellectual Quotes
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Hitler appeared, a man with limited intellectual abilities and unfit for any useful work, bursting with envy and bitterness against all whom circumstance and nature had favored over him....In his desperate ambition for power he discovered that his speeches, confused and pervaded with hate as they were, received wild acclaim by those whose situation and orientation resembled his own. He picked up this human flotsam on the streets and in the taverns and organized them around himself. This is the way he launched his political career.
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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
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Literature is a comprehensive essence of the intellectual life of a nation.
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If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.
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Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing.
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Deal honestly and objectively with yourself; intellectual honesty and personal courage are the hallmarks of great character.
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To be sure, it is not the fruits of scientific research that elevate a man and enrich his nature, but the urge to understand, the intellectual work, creative or receptive.
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It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.
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The backwardness of our religious and social developments is undoubtedly holding back the development of the intellectual and political levels.
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But Italy is not an intellectual country. On the subway in Tokyo everybody reads. In Italy, they don't. Don't evaluate Italy from the fact that it produced Raphael and Michelangelo.
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To assume that someone's views are invariably influenced or shaped by his or her partner is lazy. It is an intellectual crutch we grope for when we do not have an effective counter to someone's argument.
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If you're expecting an intellectual film, then you will be disappointed.
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I need three million dollars to make a low-budget, intellectual, artistic, exciting, erotic movie with a great soundtrack.
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If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. You must reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience.
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Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
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I suspect that most of the individuals who have religious faith are content with blind faith. They feel no obligation to understand what they believe. They may even wish not to have their beliefs disturbed by thought.
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He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.
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Where you don't have people who have strong intellectual capacity, you get demagoguery.
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I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual.
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One of the things that made the Internet so explosive and such an economic and intellectual force is because of the free-market enterprise in a country like the U.S. controlling access to it.
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Dementia is, after all, a symptom of organic brain damage. It is a condition, a disorder of the central nervous system, brought about in my case by a viral assault on brain tissue. When the assault wiped out certain intellectual processes, it also affected emotional processes.
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We were these arty punks from Hollywood. I considered myself an intellectual.
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Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention.
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In fact, there is clear evidence of black intellectual superiority: in 1984, 92 percent of blacks voted to retire Ronald Reagan, compared to only 36 percent of whites.
