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• I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing.

  Richard Rorty

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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.

  Iris Murdoch

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• Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

  Immanuel Kant

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

  Dan Rather

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• I’m not like a high intellectual.

  Billy West

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• Anti-Catholicism is the anti-Semitism of the intellectual.

  Patrick Buchanan

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• It’s head and heart. I like to feed both. I always wanted to be an actor. But the cultural-intellectual side of things has always excited me. I wouldn’t want to let it go.

  Dan Stevens

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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.

  Umberto Eco

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• What a revolting contrast exists in England between the slavery of women and the intellectual superiority of women writers.

  Flora Tristan

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• Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one’s rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.

  Georges Bataille

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• I was unpopular at school just because I was an intellectual. I always answered all the questions off the top of my head but they nevertheless resented because of that.

  George Woodcock

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• We have three centers: the emotional center, the intellectual center, and the physical body center. Each one of them has its own intelligence. How much better would we be if all three were working in unison?

  Erin Gray

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• The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.

  George Orwell

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• Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice.

  George Gissing

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• Nobody until very recently would have thought that their husband was supposed to be their best friend, confidante, intellectual soul mate, co-parent, inspiration.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

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• I am probably a pseudo-intellectual.

  Craig Ferguson

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• The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected.

  George Henry Lewes

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  An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

  Charles Bukowski

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• I don’t really get into a big intellectual analysis of why I am going to do a certain script or not.

  Clint Eastwood

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• Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.

  G. K. Chesterton

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