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The question now is: Can we understand our stupidity? This is a test of intellect, not of character.
Stupidity
John King Fairbank

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Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.
Intelligence and Intellectuals
David Fasold

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If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.
Persuasion
Benjamin Franklin

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Words represent your intellect. The sound, gesture and movement represent your feelings.
Words
Patricia Fripp

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I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.
Uncategorised
Margaret Fuller

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We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.
Pessimism
John Kenneth Galbraith

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What we now call finance is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.
Finance
Robert Graves

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There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side.
Intelligence and Intellectuals
Vaclav Havel

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Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
Thoughts and Thinking
Victor Hugo

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The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.
Education
Robert M. Hutchins

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The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
Taxes and Taxation
John Maynard Keynes

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I think, therefore I am is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.
Intelligence and Intellectuals
Milan Kundera

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The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
Psychology
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.
Cynics and Cynicism
Russell Lynes

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Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.
Cynics and Cynicism
George Meredith

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Great intellects are skeptical.
Skepticism
Friedrich Nietzsche

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Faith is the heroism of the intellect.
Faith
Charles H. Parkhurst

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One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.
Curiosity
William Lyon Phelps

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No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.
Ability
John Ruskin

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Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.
Skill
John Ruskin

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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principals to trifles.
Cities and City Life
George Santayana

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Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect.
Skepticism
George Santayana

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Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.
Stubbornness
Arthur Schopenhauer

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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.
Will and Will Power
Arthur Schopenhauer

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Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
Concentration
Sri Swami Sivananda

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