I’m not an intellectual in any sense, I have constraints of erudition. I’m not able to deal with things outside my ken, and that makes me irritable. I’m irritable about the fact that I never went to university.
Intellectual Quotes
The course of every intellectual, is he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the nonintellectuals have never stirred.
The intellect is meant to expand perceptions, to help you grow in perpetual strength and complexity, and not to do any harm.
All intellectual improvement arises from leisure.
What is best for man? That he should possess intellect. If he lack intellect, then money whereby he will be respected. If he lack money, then a wife who will conceal his faults. If he lack a wife, then silence will hide his defects. And if he lack silence, then the best thing for him […]
Why, life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his senses can afford.
A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world.
The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his own vanity. Godlike, he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words.
(The intelligensia.) For various reasons this shadowy caste is largely made up of men who have official stamps upon their learning – that is, of professors, of doctors of philosophy; outside of academic circles it tends to shade off very rapidly into a half-world of isolated anarchists. One of those reasons is plain enough: the […]
A man may walk intellectually among the stars and grovel morally among the swine.
