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“My philosophy
like colour TV
is all there
in black and white”
Monty Python

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Intellect

 An intellectual is a man who says a simple thing in a difficult way; an artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way. 
Charles Bukowski (1920-1994)
 An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows. 
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969)
 Beauty multiplied by brains equals a constant. 
Anonymous
 Hitchen's Razor: What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence. 
Quod gratis asseritur, gratis negatur
Christopher Hitchens (1949-2011)
 Horse sense is what stops horses from betting on humans. 
Anonymous
 I'm not smart, I try to observe: millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked why. 
Bernard Baruch (1870-1965)
 Intellectuals are cynical and cynics have never built a cathedral. 
Henry Kissinger (1923-2023)
 Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met. 
Fran Lebowitz (1950- )
 The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward. 
John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946)
 The difference between a man of intellect and an intellectual is the same as the difference between a gentleman and a gent. 
Stanley Baldwin (1867-1947)
 The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. 
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
 The world holds two classes of men: intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence. 
اِثْنَانِ أَهْلُ الْأَرْضِ ذُو عَقْلٍ بِلَا دِينٍ وَآخَرُ دَيِّنٌ لَا عَقْلَ لَهُ
Al-Ma'arri (973-1057)
 What is a highbrow? He is a man who has found something more interesting than women. 
Edgar Wallace (1875-1932)
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