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Intellectual Quotes

"An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself."

"Philosophy is common sense with big words."

"Leisure is the mother of philosophy"

"Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week."

"The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained."

"The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries"

"In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them."

"A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking."

"Reading is not walking on the words; it's grasping the soul of them"

"I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once."

"The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he does not understand the amount of effort it takes to produce it."

"Stupidity lies in wanting to draw conclusions"

"Nothing seems more evident to me than that the powers of the mind are the varied actions of the brain"

"The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind"

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