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Intellectual Quotes

"An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex"

"An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think."

"How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress"

"Writing does not mean to passively add to the noise of the world but to actively engage in the transformation of knowledge"

"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers"

"People forget about books. They're always just turning on the television, but reading a good book is the most nourishing thing you can do."

"An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way."

"The important thing is, when you reach that little intellectual plateau, just say "Aha!". It's about those little breakthroughs."

"Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes"

"Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active."

"He who thinks greatly must err greatly."

"If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!"

"To read is to let someone else work for you, suffer for you, and think for you."

"I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time."

"In my whole life, I have known no wise people who didn't read all the time—none, zero"

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