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She was short on intellect, but long on shape.
Intelligence and Intellectuals
George Ade

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The intellect is weak; it has no power except over what is as weak as itself.
Intelligence and Intellectuals
Al-Nuri

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I've never been an intellectual but I have this look.
Intelligence and Intellectuals
Woody Allen

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I've been called many things, but never an intellectual.
Intelligence and Intellectuals
Tallulah Bankhead

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Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence.
Independence
David Ben-Gurion

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Wit. The salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.
Wit
Ambrose Bierce

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The cynic never grows up, but commits intellectual suicide.
Cynics and Cynicism
Dean Charles R. Brown

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Jesting is often only indigence of intellect.
Jest
Jean De La Bruyere

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Anti-Catholicism is the anti-Semitism of the intellectual.
Catholicism
Patrick Buchanan

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If the cut of the costume indicates intellect and talent, then the color indicates temper and heart.
Fashion
Thomas Carlyle

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The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.
Temperament
Thomas Carlyle

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To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
Intelligence and Intellectuals
Dick Cavett

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A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure.
Intelligence and Intellectuals
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort

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Their is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.
Heart
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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We may seek God by our intellect, but we only can find him with our heart.
God
Cotvos

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Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect.
Idleness
Leonardo Da Vinci

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Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.
Intelligence and Intellectuals
Albert Einstein

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An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Intelligence and Intellectuals
Dwight D. Eisenhower

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As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.
Creeds
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
Character
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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If a man's eye is on the Eternal, his intellect will grow.
Intelligence and Intellectuals
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
Books - Reading
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free.
Intelligence and Intellectuals
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity.
Exercise
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Sorrow makes us all children again, destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest knows nothing.
Sorrow
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun