1 The main reason nerds are unpopular is that they have other things to think about. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023December 28, 2024, Paul G, Intellectualism, Preoccupation, Social exclusion, 0 - Paul G Author Copy
2 The first people totalitarians destroy or silence are men of ideas and free minds. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Isaiah Berlin, Intellectualism, Oppression, Resistance, 0 - Isaiah Berlin Philosopher · Latvia Copy
3 Haitians weren’t screwed-up, but everything political, intellectual, and material around them is. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023December 28, 2024, P. J. O'Rourke, Intellectualism, Materialism, Politics, 0 - P. J. O'Rourke Political satirist and journalist · USA Copy
4 There is more in Mersenne than in all the universities together. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023December 28, 2024, Thomas Hobbes, Academia, Intellectualism, Knowledge, 0 - Thomas Hobbes Philosopher · England Copy
5 …when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Robert Anton Wilson, Close-mindedness, Intellectualism, Stagnation, 0 - Robert Anton Wilson Author · USA Copy
6 [Emerson] was interested not in the bookworm, not even in the thinker, only in Man Thinking. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023December 28, 2024, Robert D. Richardson, Humanity, Individualism, Intellectualism, 0 - Robert D. Richardson Biographer Copy
7 My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023December 28, 2024, Robert M. Hutchins, Disruption, Education, Intellectualism, 0 - Robert M. Hutchins Educator · . Copy
8 Intellectualism, though by no means confined to doubters, is often the sole piety of the skeptic. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Richard Hofstadter, Intellectualism, Piety, Skepticism, 0 - Richard Hofstadter Historian · USA Copy
9 [B]ut he had lived in a world in which, as he said, no one who loved ideas need hunger mentally. Feraz Zeid, December 14, 2023December 28, 2024, Edith Wharton, Intellectualism, Nourishment, Society, 0 - Edith Wharton Novelist · United Copy
10 A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking. Feraz Zeid, December 14, 2023December 28, 2024, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Avoidance, Escape, Intellectualism, 0 - Ralph Waldo Emerson Philosopher · USA Copy
11 I have no nationality – the best possible status for an intellectual. Feraz Zeid, December 14, 2023December 28, 2024, Emile M. Cioran, Freedom, Identity, Intellectualism, 0 - Emile M. Cioran Philosopher · Romania Copy
12 Great thoughts are against all doctrines of conformity Explain Feraz Zeid, August 23, 2023December 25, 2024, Austin Osman Spare, Individualism, Intellectualism, Nonconformity, 0 - Austin Osman Spare Artist · England Copy
13 Let us dare to read, think, speak and write. Explain Feraz Zeid, August 8, 2023December 25, 2024, John Adams, Communication, Courage, Intellectualism, 0 - John Adams Lawyer · USA Copy
14 Literary men are . . . a perpetual priesthood. Feraz Zeid, October 29, 2023December 28, 2024, John Keats, Authority, Exclusivity, Intellectualism, 0 - John Keats Poet · England Copy
15 You fall in love with people’s minds. Feraz Zeid, June 25, 2023December 25, 2024, Anaïs Nin, Connection, Intellectualism, Love, 0 - Anaïs Nin Writer · France Copy
16 Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them. Explain Feraz Zeid, October 12, 2023December 14, 2023, Albert Einstein, Intellectualism, Prevention, Problem-solving, 0 - Albert Einstein Theoretical Physicist · Germany Copy
17 An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way. Feraz Zeid, December 11, 2022December 25, 2024, Charles Bukowski, Complexity, Intellectualism, Simplicity, 0 - Charles Bukowski Poet · Germany Copy
18 All genuinely intellectual work is humorous. Feraz Zeid, January 28, 2023December 25, 2024, George Bernard Shaw, Creativity, Humor, Intellectualism, 0 - George Bernard Shaw Playwright · Ireland Copy
Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen. - Michael Jordan Basketball player · USA
Staying with empathy we allow speakers to touch deeper levels of themselves. - Marshall B. Rosenberg Psychologist · USA
At the shrine of friendship never say die, let the wine of friendship never run dry - Victor Hugo Writer · France
Give me something huge to fight, — and I should enjoy that — but why make me sweep the dust? - Charles Kingsley Professor · England
I didn’t aspire to be a good sport; “champion” was good enough for me. - Fred Perry Tennis player · England
I think that for some people faith is good – they have something to draw to. - Aaron Paul Actor · USA
Life’s a journey that goes round and round and the end is closest to the beginning. Explain - Edward James Olmos Actor
You wouldn’t know I was sick unless you knew I was sick. - Elizabeth Edwards Attorneys in the United States · USA
If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn’t have been worth the Nobel Prize. - Richard P. Feynman Physicist · USA
Human beings tend not to spend money on health preventionally. We tend to spend it on top treatment. - Jacqueline Novogratz
There isn’t anything so grotesque or so incredible that the average human being can’t believe it. Explain - Mark Twain Author · USA
The fans have played a massive part in getting us to where we are, but the job’s not finished. - Steven Gerrard Football player · England
If you want the world to pay for projects, you have to be able to display why you’re worthy. - Amanda Palmer Singer · USA
Where are the forms the sculptor’s soul hath seized? In him alone, Can nature show as fair? - Lord Byron Poet · England
That is the creative artist – a penalty of the creative artist – wanting to make order out of chaos. - Ursula Nordstrom Editor · USA
When in doubt, play track 4 – it is usually the one you want. - Elvis Costello Singer-songwriter · England
