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Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.

Quote by Bill Gates about life

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

Quote by Albert Einstein about intelligence, problems

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

Quote by Oscar Wilde about people, enemies, good, good luck, man

I've never been an intellectual but I have this look.

Quote by Woody Allen about humor

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

Quote by Francis Bacon about limits, god

People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.

Quote by F. Murray Abraham about power, people

The most intellectual of men are moved quite as much by the circumstances which they are used to as by their own will. The active voluntary part of a man is very small, and if it were not economized by a sleepy kind of habit, its results would be...

Quote by Walter Bagehot about circumstances, habits, man

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Quote by John Adams about power, liberty, self-control, thinking

If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way...

Quote by Ray Bradbury about affair, friendship, time, love

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

Quote by Albert Camus about opinion, mind

Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.

Quote by Orson Scott about fall

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

Quote by William Falconer about common sense, sense, use, reason, god

When space is not there for you, the intellectual work will still keep you buoyed up.

Quote by Richard Gere about univers, work

I know many men who are misanthropes, and profess to look down with disdain on their species. My creed is of an opposite character. All that we observe that is best and most excellent in the intellectual world, is man.

Quote by William Godwin about man, character, world

Lennon was not very fond of me. Lennon didn't like to be around somebody else who was likely to be the center of attention and didn't like being on deck with somebody who was intellectually as hot as he was.

Quote by Peter Fonda about attention, being

The forces that are driving mankind toward unity and peace are deep-seated and powerful. They are material and natural, as well as moral and intellectual.

Quote by Arthur Henderson about tirany, force, peace, moral

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about curiosity

You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about man, life

Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.

Quote by James Joyce about emotions, man

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

Quote by Aldous Huxley about sex, people