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These stories about my intellectual capacity really get under my skin. You know, for a while I even thought my staff believed it. There on my schedule first thing every morning it said, 'Intelligence Briefing.'

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Mere mental, that is, intellectual labour, is for the soul and has its own satisfaction.

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It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations. Precisely one of the most gratifying results of intellectual evolution is the continuous opening up of new and greater prospects.

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The restriction of knowledge to an elite group destroys the spirit of the society and leads to its intellectual impoverishment.

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Strenuous intellectual work and the study of God's Nature are the angels that will lead me through all the troubles of this life with consolation, strength, and uncompromising rigor.

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A philosopher is a sort of intellectual yokel who gawks at things that sensible people take for granted.

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My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties.

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I have always disliked the fierce competitive spirit embodied in that highly intellectual game.

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PASTIME, n. A device for promoting dejection. Gentle exercise for intellectual debility.

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Just as the philanthropist is the nuisance of the ethical sphere, so the nuisance of the intellectual sphere is the man who is so occupied in trying to educate others, that he has never had any time to educate himself.

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The greatest intellectual capacities are only found in connection with a vehement and passionate will.

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Every word which is used to express a moral or intellectual fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance.

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He was not so much brain as earwax

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Tolerance is an admirable intellectual gift; but it is of little worth in politics.

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To be infatuated with the power of one's own intellect is an accident which seldom happens but to those who are remarkable for the want of intellectual power. Whenever Nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.

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Observation and experiment for gathering material, induction and deduction for elaborating it: these are are only good intellectual tools.

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I am afraid that you have been listening to the conversation of someone older than yourself. That is always a dangerous thing to do, and if you allow it to degenerate into a habit, you will find it absolutely fatal to any intellectual development.

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Intellectual knowledge exists in and of the brain. Because the brain is part of the body, which must one day expire, this collection of facts, however large and impressive, will expire as well. {But spiritual insight transcends death.}

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An intellectual hatred is the worst.

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Literature is a comprehensive essence of the intellectual life of a nation.

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