#intellectual

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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The few bright meteors in man's intellectual horizon could well be matched by women, were she allowed to occupy the same elevated position. ↗

— Ernestine Rose

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Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals. ↗

— Edmund Wilson

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The intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics. ↗

— Jay Chiat

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Creeds and castes, and all forms of intellectual and emotional grouping, belong to the past. ↗

— Herbert Read

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In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits. ↗

— Robert Hall

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Futurism: This was a movement of intellectuals who wanted to replace tradition with the modern world of machinery, speed, violence, and public relations. It proves that we should be careful what intellectuals wish for, because we might get it. ↗

— Brad Holland

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An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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All this is applicable to the intellectual faculties of man. There is a considerable difference between one person and another as regards these faculties, as is well known to philosophers. ↗

— Maimonides

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It does not just happen. It is disclosed by science that practically one-half of trained intellectual resources are being mobilized for murderous purposes. ↗

— Alva Myrdal

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