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1. “Americans revered action and were suspicious of intellect, associating the life of the mind with the languid, ineffectual European aristocracy they had left behind.”

Susan Cain

Cultural Values, Action Versus Intellect, American Identity, Historical Context, Intellectualism

2. “What if you love knowledge for its own sake, not necessarily as a blueprint to action? What if you wish there were more, not fewer reflective types in the world?”

Susan Cain

Knowledge, Reflection, Intellectualism, Love Learning, Thoughtful Inquiry

3. “Reading is a mere makeshift for original thinking.”

Arthur Schopenhauer

Reading, Originality, Thought, Creativity, Intellectualism

4. “There is a wide difference between the original thinker and the merely learned man.”

Arthur Schopenhauer

Thinking, Originality, Knowledge, Intellect, Intellectualism

5. “A professor is someone who talks in someone else’s sleep.”

W.H. Auden

Academia, Teaching, Metaphor, Perception, Intellectualism

6. “If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay – in solid cash – the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.”

Aldous Huxley

Art, Hypocrisy, Intellectualism, Money, Cultural Support, Social Critique

7. “The pursuit of truth is just a polite name for the intellectual's favorite pastime of substituting simple and therefore false abstractions for the living complexities of reality.”

Aldous Huxley

Truth, Intellectualism, Abstraction, Reality, Complexity, Philosophical Critique

8. “Lionel Johnson comes the first to mind, That loved his learning better than mankind, Though courteous to the worst; much falling he Brooded upon sanctity...”

William Butler Yeats

Scholarship, Solitude, Reflection, Devotion, Intellectualism, Humility

9. “Love is created and preserved by intellectual analysis, for we love only that which is unique, and it belongs to contemplation, not to action, for we would not change that which we love.”

William Butler Yeats

Thoughtful Love, Contemplation, Uniqueness, Emotional Understanding, Reflection, Intellectualism

10. “The mind which is most capable of receiving impressions is very often the least capable of drawing conclusions.”

Virginia Woolf

Mind, Perception, Intellectualism, Thought, Reasoning, Reflection

11. “Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.”

Virginia Woolf

Literature, Opinion, Creative Struggles, Self-Doubt, Intellectualism, Public Perception

12. “Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.”

Virginia Woolf

Critical Thinking, Intellectualism, Resistance, Truth, Philosophy, Self-Discovery

13. “A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.”

Virginia Woolf

Essay Writing, Literary Craft, Expression, Thoughtfulness, Creativity, Intellectualism

14. “People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Knowledge, Intellectualism, Wisdom, Fulfillment, Insight

15. “The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.”

George Orwell

Intellectualism, Humanity, Personality, Society, Insight

16. “The Communism of the English intellectual is something explicable enough. It is the patriotism of the deracinated.”

George Orwell

Communism, Patriotism, Identity, Society, Intellectualism

17. “One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool.”

George Orwell

Intellectualism, Society, Beliefs, Elitism, Perspective

18. “The enemies of intellectual liberty always try to present their case as a plea for discipline versus individualism. The issue truth-versus-untruth is as far as possible kept in the background.”

George Orwell

Intellectualism, Liberty, Truth, Authority, Ideology

19. “Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.”

George Orwell

Intellectualism, Beliefs, Irony, Critique, Society

20. “There are some things only intellectuals are crazy enough to believe.”

George Orwell

Intellectualism, Belief, Irony, Paradox, Reason

21. “The common people, on the whole, are still living in the world of absolute good and evil from which the intellectuals have long since escaped.”

George Orwell

Morality, Good and Evil, Common People, Intellectualism, Perspective

22. “You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.”

George Orwell

Intellectualism, Belief, Society, Irony, Individuality

23. “No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.”

Theodore Roosevelt

Intellectualism, Effort, Creativity, Insight, Reflection

24. “Poor minds talk about people. Average minds talk about events. Great minds talk about ideas.”

Eleanor Roosevelt

Mindset, Ideas, Conversation, Intellectualism, Perspective

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