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" Quotes and Sayings About intellectual

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

Intellectual Knows Man More
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Learning has to come from doing, not intellectualizing.

Learning Come Doing Intellectualizing
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Europe is a place that conserves. It maintains, it curates its civilization, protects it against the ravages and rust of other cultures, and the rot of time and intellectual theft. We are a continent

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An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.

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If you have insight, you use your inner eye, your inner ear, to pierce to the heart of things, and have no need of intellectual knowledge.
Heart Intellectual Insight
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Excuse me for being so intellectual. I know you would prefer something nice and feminine and affectionate.

Intellectual Feminine Affectionate Know
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The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say,

Moral Include Task World
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Only 4 sets of people can vote for the PDP: (1) those who are intellectually blind; (2) those who are blinded by ethnicity; (3) those who are blinded by corruption and therefore afraid of the unknown, should power change hands; and finally (4) those who are suffering from a combination of the above terminal sicknesses.

People PDP Vote Corruption
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The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.

Ideas Class Epoch Ruling
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Transcendental intelligence rises when the intellectual mind reaches its limit and if things are to be realized in their true and essential nature, its processes of thinking must be transcended by an appeal to some higher faculty of cognition.

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We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.

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All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.

Growth Effort Work Depend
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The capacity for directed thinking I call intellect; the capacity for passive or undirected thinking I call intellectual intuition.

Passive Capacity Intuition Intellect
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Israel has created a new image of the Jew in the world - the image of a working and an intellectual people, of a people that can fight with heroism.

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In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy and especially dislike reading experimental papers. He (René Thom) seemed to have very strong biological intuitions but unfortunately of negative sign.

Intellectually Strong Biology Lazy
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Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.

Art Intellectual Interpretation Revenge
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The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, 'I was wrong'.

Achievements Acts Excluded Feats
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The whole foundation of Christianity is based on the idea that intellectualism is the work of the Devil. Remember the apple on the tree? Okay, it was the Tree of Knowledge. You eat this apple, you're going to be as smart as God. We can't have that.

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The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the disenchantment of the world.

Above Characterized Disenchantment Fate
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Not everyone realises that to write a really good piece of journalism is at least as demanding intellectually as the achievement of any scholar.

Achievement Any Demanding Everyone
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Within the confines of the lecture hall, no other virtue exists but plain intellectual integrity.

Confines Exists Hall Integrity
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The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

Complexity Does Growing Imply
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Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
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An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

Artist Hard Intellectual Says
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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.

Beasts Brute Commonly Domain
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Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.

Banana Intellectual Life Property
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When you make a decision to forgive it's a decision that you have to make intellectually.

Decision Forgive Intellectually Make
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It's not the most intellectual job in the world, but I do have to know the letters.

Intellectual Job Know Letters
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But Italy is not an intellectual country. On the subway in Tokyo everybody reads. In Italy, they don't. Don't evaluate Italy from the fact that it produced Raphael and Michelangelo.

Country Evaluate Everybody Fact
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When asked if I consider myself Buddhist, the answer is, Not really. But it's more my religion than any other because I was brought up with it in an intellectual and spiritual environment. I don't practice or preach it, however.

Answer Any Asked Because
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Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

Geniuses Intellectuals Prevent Problems
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The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.

Call Else Embryo Exposed
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Communism everywhere has paid the price of rigidity and dogmatism. Freedom has the strength of compassion and flexibility. It has, above all, the strength of intellectual honesty.

Above Communism Compassion Everywhere
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Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.
Marxism Opium Intellectuals.
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God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.

God Intellectual Levels Metaphor
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For a man of my generation, our century has been a long intellectual and political struggle in favor of freedom.

Been Century Favor Freedom
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I know I've got a degree. Why does that mean I have to spend my life with intellectuals? I've got a lifesaving certificate but I don't spend my evenings diving for a rubber brick with my pyjamas on.

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If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.

Ever Frauds Go Intellectual
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It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing... if you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you've got it half-made. I mean intellectually.

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It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations. Precisely one of the most gratifying results of intellectual evolution is the continuous opening up of new and greater prospects.

Paradoxical True Ignorant Absolute
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The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.
Intellectual Sevility Power Betray
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When I was a seminarian, I was dazzled by a girl I met at an uncle's wedding. I was surprised by her beauty, her intellectual brilliance... and, well, I was bowled over for quite a while.

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I believe that everybody has the right to view his or her own body as a palette. However, I think intellectuals should at least try to be role models.

Believe Least Body Role
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I believe in the romantic interchange between intellectuals about fashion.

About Believe Between Fashion
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Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.

Important Keys Healthy body Dynamic
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If Socialism can only be realized when the intellectual development of all the people permits it, then we shall not see Socialism for at least five hundred years.

Development Five Hundred Hundred Years
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The young intellectuals are all chanting,

Youn Intellectuals Chanting Revolution
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If you call 'religious' a man who believes in what I call a Supermeaning, a meaning so comprehensive that you can no longer grasp it, get hold of it in rational intellectual terminology, then one should feel free to call me religious, really.

Believes Call Comprehensive Feel
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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way

Like Many Intellectuals Incapable
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Insight into universal nature provides an intellectual delight and sense of freedom that no blows of fate and no evil can destroy.

Insight Universal Nature Intellectual.delight
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