#intellect

Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

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I spend so much time with the brightest and most talented and well-rounded people. I've had the privilege of having long and very intellectual conversations with people, and sometimes I just sit there and listen. It's like a better version of a class. Even though I'm not sitting at a desk and in school, I'm still learning all the time. ↗

— Hayden Panettiere

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I studied economics and made it my career for two reasons. The subject was and is intellectually fascinating and challenging, particularly to someone with taste and talent for theoretical reasoning and quantitative analysis. ↗

— James Tobin

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Most intellectuals today have a phobia of any explanation of the mind that invokes genetics. ↗

— Steven Pinker

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I had to satisfy the action fans, the romantic fans, the intellectual fans. It was a terrific burden. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

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A mugwump is a person educated beyond his intellect. ↗

— Horace Porter

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I shall suggest, on the contrary, that all communication relies, to a noticeable extent on evoking knowledge that we cannot tell, and that all our knowledge of mental processes, like feelings or conscious intellectual activities, is based on a knowledge which we cannot tell. ↗

— Michael Polanyi

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I have spent a good part of my life showing what an intellectual bubble the Left lives in. ↗

— Dennis Prager

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I'm strictly for Stevenson. I don't dig the intellectual bit, but I'm telling you, man, he knows the most. ↗

— Elvis Presley

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Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed. ↗

— Manuel Puig

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