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"An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts."
— Albert Camus

tags: intellectuals, intelligence, philosophy, scholars

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"It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners."
— Albert Camus

tags: compassion, death, execution, intelligence, scholars, thinkers

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"Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art. "
— Susan Sontag

tags: art, criticism, critique, intelligence, interpretation, scholars, scholarship

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"They're so cold, these scholars!
May lightning strike their food
so that their mouths learn how
to eat fire!"
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: coldness, education, elitism, higher, scholars, scholarship

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"Academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion. Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates."
— Werner Herzog

tags: academia, film, movies, passion, scholars, scholarship

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"An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger. "
— Dan Rather

tags: elitism, music, scholars, scholarship, snobbery, television

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"You scholars, you're in communication with the devil."
— Alexandre Dumas (The Black Tulip)

tags: scholars

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"No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar."
— Donald Foster

tags: scholars

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"Could I get mansions covering ten thousand miles, I'd house all the poor scholars and make them beam with smiles"
— Du Fu

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