#intel

This film business, perhaps more so in America than in Europe, has always been about young sexuality. It's not true of theatre, but in America, film audiences are young. It's not an intellectual cinema in America. ↗

— Jacqueline Bisset

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To be black and an intellectual in America is to live in a box. On the box is a label, not of my own choosing. ↗

— Stephen Carter

#black #box #choosing #intellectual #label

The best audience is intelligent, well-educated and a little drunk. ↗

— Alben W. Barkley

#best #drunk #intelligent #little #well-educated

Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain away any goal. I'm so smart I can negate any dream. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#choke #dreams #education #intelligence #lethargy

Two things are to be remembered: that a man whose opinions and theories are worth studying may be presumed to have had some intelligence, but that no man is likely to have arrived at complete and final truth on any subject whatever. When an intelligent man expresses a view which seems to us obviously absurd, we should not attempt to prove that it is somehow true, but we should try to understand how it ever came toseemtrue. Thisexercise of historical and psychological imagination at once enlarges the scope of our thinking, and helps us to realize how foolish many of our own cherished prejudices will seem to an age which has a different temper of mind. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#insight #intelligence #philosophy #tolerance #wisdom

Bravery is a willing decision to do what must be done. Fear is a cancer that is cured only by doing what must be done, backed by an intelligent, open mind. ↗

— Corey Aaron Burkes

#bravery #cancer #courage #fear #intelligent

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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I am beautiful for a brainy woman, brainy for a beautiful woman, but objectively speaking, neither beautiful nor brainy. ↗

— Rebecca Newberger Goldstein

#intelligence #beauty

Henry's universe was modeled on the highball. It was a mixture in which half a pint of the fizziest philosophical and scientific ideas all but drowned a small jigger of immediate experience, most of it strictly sexual. Broken reeds are seldom good mixers. They're far too busy with their ideas, their sensuality and their psychosomatic complaints to be able to take an interest in other people - even their own wives and children. They live in a state of the most profound voluntary ignorance, not knowing anything about anybody, but abounding in preconceived opinions about everything. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#huxley #ignorance #intellect #business

If by 'intellectual' you mean people who are a special class who are in the business of imposing thoughts and forming ideas for people in power, and telling people what they should believe...they're really more a kind of secular priesthood, whose task it is to uphold the doctrinal truths of the society. And the population SHOULD be anti-intellectual in that repect. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

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