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All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "Facts". They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

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I have three brothers and they're all into computers. They're all intellects. My mother would pay me a quarter a page to read a book and I couldn't make 50 cents. I just couldn't do it. ↗

— Josh Holloway

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The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man. ↗

— Charles Sumner

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The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated. ↗

— Dan Glickman

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The privileged man, whether he be privileged politically or economically, is a man depraved in intellect and heart. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

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Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal. ↗

— Sarah Bernhardt

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Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible; reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless. ↗

— Max Born

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I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much. ↗

— Newt Gingrich

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