“To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual”
Oscar Wilde
“If you were a servant, would you not be ashamed that a good master should catch you idle? Are you then your own master? Be ashamed to catch yourself idle, when there is much to be done for yourself, your family, your relations, and your country”
Benjamin Franklin
“Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.”
Albert Einstein
“Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values.”
Gerald Brenan
“An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.”
Charles Bukowski
“There is a real difference between intellectualism and intelligence. Intellectualism leaves out something that intelligence often had and what it really is is a kind of a part of the human spirit. You know many men will be highly intellectual and yet they will have absolutely terrible judgment.”
Thomas Foran
“It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.”
