#intellectual

To spend this particular year reading essays to Dennis Robertson as one's supervisor, and, simultaneously, enjoying membership of the group round Keynes was indeed an intellectual treat. ↗

— James Meade

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The reading eye must do the work to make them live, and so it did, again and again, never the same life twice, as the artist had intended. ↗

— A.S. Byatt

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I'm an intellectual. ↗

— Alexei Sayle

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There is nothing that an intellectual less likes to change than his mind, or a politician his policy. ↗

— Theodore Dalrymple

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What a lover’s heart knows let no man’s brain dispute. ↗

— Aberjhani

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What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error. ↗

— Raymond Aron

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There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence. ↗

— Philip James Bailey

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Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

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The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

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My emotional and intellectual response to Hiroshima was that the question of the social responsibility of a journalist was posed with greater urgency than ever. ↗

— Wilfred Burchett

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