Quotes: intellectual
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Bell Hooks
American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins)
1952-
... no Black woman can become an intellectual without decolonizing her mind.
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...the levels of culture, the aspects of society: military, political, economic, social, emotional, religious, and intellectual. Those are your basic human needs....they are arranged in evolutionary sequence.
Source: Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976)
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...we no longer have intellectually satisfying arrangements in our educational system, in our arts, humanities or anything else; instead we have slogans and ideologies. An ideology is a religious or emotional expression; it is not an intellectual expression.
Source: Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976)
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A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual.
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All intellectual improvement arises from leisure.
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All observations point to the fact that the intellectual woman is masculinized; in her, warm, intuitive knowledge has yielded to cold unproductive thinking.
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Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic uninterestingness as an intellectual position. Where was the ingenuity, the ambiguity, the humanity (in the Harvard sense) of saying that the universe just happened to happen and that when we're dead we're dead?
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An intellectual instinct which extracts the essence from the phenomena of life, as a bee sucks honey from a flower. In addition to study and reflections, life itself serves as a source.
Source: On War (1832)
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An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.
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An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
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An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.
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An intellectual is going to have doubts, for example, about a fundamentalist religious doctrine that admits no doubt, about an imposed political system that allows no doubt, about a perfect aesthetic that has no room for doubt.
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Anti-Catholicism is the anti-Semitism of the intellectual.
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As man under pressure tends to give in to physical and intellectual weakness, only great strength of will can lead to the objective.
Source: On War (1832)
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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principals to trifles.
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