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I've never been an intellectual but I have this look.
Intelligence and Intellectuals
Woody Allen

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I've been called many things, but never an intellectual.
Intelligence and Intellectuals
Tallulah Bankhead

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Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence.
Independence
David Ben-Gurion

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Wit. The salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.
Wit
Ambrose Bierce

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The cynic never grows up, but commits intellectual suicide.
Cynics and Cynicism
Dean Charles R. Brown

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Anti-Catholicism is the anti-Semitism of the intellectual.
Catholicism
Patrick Buchanan

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To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
Intelligence and Intellectuals
Dick Cavett

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Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.
Intelligence and Intellectuals
Albert Einstein

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An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Intelligence and Intellectuals
Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity.
Exercise
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.
Intelligence and Intellectuals
David Fasold

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What we now call finance is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.
Finance
Robert Graves

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There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side.
Intelligence and Intellectuals
Vaclav Havel

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The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.
Education
Robert M. Hutchins

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The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
Taxes and Taxation
John Maynard Keynes

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I think, therefore I am is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.
Intelligence and Intellectuals
Milan Kundera

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Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.
Cynics and Cynicism
Russell Lynes

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Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.
Cynics and Cynicism
George Meredith

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One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.
Curiosity
William Lyon Phelps

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No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.
Ability
John Ruskin

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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principals to trifles.
Cities and City Life
George Santayana

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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
Intelligence and Intellectuals
Robert Louis Stevenson

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Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.
Curiosity
G. M. Trevelyan

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Intellectual work is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.
Work
Mark Twain

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What is mind but motion in the intellectual sphere?
Mind
Oscar Wilde

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun