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• I suppose I’ve always carried what is regarded as a bit of unnecessary baggage in Britain. I’ve always carried the charge that I am an intellectual in politics.

  Chris Patten

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Suppose, Intellectual

• What a revolting contrast exists in England between the slavery of women and the intellectual superiority of women writers.

  Flora Tristan

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  Tags in Women, Intellectual, Writers

• The intellectual evolution of the race consists in an increase in the number, delicacy, complexity, permanence and speed of formation of such associations.

  Edward Thorndike

  Topics in Evolution

  Tags in Intellectual, Race

• For him to have understood me would have meant reorganizing his thinking… giving up his intellectual ballast, and few people are willing to risk such a radical move.

  Edward Hall

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  Tags in People, Ballast, Intellectual

• Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one’s rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.

  Georges Bataille

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  Tags in Intellectual, Despair, Violence

• An intellectual hatred is the worst.

  William Butler Yeats

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• The intellectual force of the West is still dominant, but other cultures are getting stronger. I expect that we will develop a new way of thinking in architecture and urban planning, and that less will be based on our models.

  Rem Koolhaas

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  Tags in Models, Intellectual

• I was unpopular at school just because I was an intellectual. I always answered all the questions off the top of my head but they nevertheless resented because of that.

  George Woodcock

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  Tags in Self, Intellectual

• The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.

  George Orwell

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  Tags in Intellectual, Personality

• I’ve never been an intellectual but I have this look.

  Woody Allen

  Topics in Intelligence

  Tags in Intellectual

• The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected.

  George Henry Lewes

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  Tags in Intellectual, Misconceptions

• He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.

  Iris Murdoch

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  Tags in Managed, Intellectual

• An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.

  Dan Rather

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  Tags in Music, Think, Intellectual

• Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice.

  George Gissing

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  Tags in Intellectual, Vice

• Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

  Immanuel Kant

  Topics in Experience

  Tags in Experienced, Play, Intellectual

• Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

  Thomas Sowell

  Tags in Intellectual, Blatant

• Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves.

  William Ellery Channing

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  Tags in Intellectual, Rouse, Great Minds

• The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.

  Walter Horatio Pater

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  Tags in Intellectual, Activity, Roads, Move

• Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.

  G. K. Chesterton

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  Tags in Intellectual, Cruelty

• All in the Family was intellectual; it was art.

  Carroll O'Connor

  Topics in Art, Family

  Tags in Intellectual