"An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows."
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Category: Intellectual
"Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free."
"A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages."
"If a man's eye is on the Eternal, his intellect will grow."
"One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs."
"We lie in the lap of immense intelligence."
"Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong."
"I was street smart, but unfortunately the street was Rodeo Drive."
"The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything."
"Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon."
"And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew."
"He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral."
"There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side."
"It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value."
"A highbrow is the kind of person who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso."
"There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have."
"Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible."
"Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, But quickly to see how to make them good."
"Man is an intelligence, not served by, but in servitude to his organs."
"Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own."
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