Intellect Quotes

“Language is generated by the intellect and generates intellect.”

“I would like to be judged on the validity of my arguments, not as a victim.”

“The intellectual's temptation is to be not on the side of the oppressed, but against the oppressor.”

“The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.”

“The intellectual power of man is not a-wandering thing, but has a fixed law and order of its own.”

“A con artist's only weapon is his brain.”

“To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.”

“There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.”

“By words the mind is winged.”

“Genius is only a superior power of seeing.”

“Conversation is the music of the mind, an intellectual orchestra where all the instruments should bear a part.”

“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.”

“The intellect is a beautiful servant but a terrible master.”

“The opium of the intellectuals is the belief that the worst is the most probable.”

“The intellectual who is no longer a critic of the intellectual is a traitor.”

“A great man's conversation is the measure of his thoughts.”

“A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.”

“I think that if you're a thinking person you should always be trying to learn something.”

“If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having no independent commitment to ideas, it is having an excess of commitment to some special and constricting idea.”

“An intellectual is a man who says a simple thing in a difficult way; an artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way.”