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Intellectual Quotes

"The direction of education is to turn the mind"

"The pleasure of finding things out"

"Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds"

"An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows"

"Curiosity is the lust of the mind"

"She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain."

"A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar."

"A scholar is just a library's way of making another library."

"The function of the scholar is to destroy myths"

"Knowledge is not made for understanding; it is made for cutting"

"I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book"

"The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing"

"The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind"

"We need to make books cool again. If you go home with somebody and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!"

"The highest form of art is the expression of pure thought."

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