{"quotes":[{"text":"I don’t really know what “intellectual” means, but if it means you’ve got a desire to learn, you’ve got a desire to look for things that haven’t been presented to you, then, maybe. I think that “intellectual” is quite an exclusive word. I think it’s just for anyone that has a thirst or a hunger to improve themselves, or a yearning to escape from somewhere to get to a better place.","author":"Pete Doherty","tags":["intellectual","learning"],"id":4886,"author_id":"Pete+Doherty"},{"text":"Intellect is the virtue of ignoring one’s emotions’ attempt to contaminate one’s opinions.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["ad-hominem","argument","debate","emotions","intellect","intellectual","logic","reason","reasoning"],"id":5487,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Intellectual death is endemic in areas where people are unprepared to obtain new information for development. Learning is a way of staying alive.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["alive","areas","books","dead","death","development","education","endemic","food-for-thought","inform","information","intellect","intellectual","israelmore-ayivor","learn","learning","lesson","library","new","obtain","people","prepare","prepared","read","reading","school","stay-alive","study","studying"],"id":6267,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"I went on writing reviews for the newspaper, and critical articles crying out for a different approach to culture, as even the most inattentive reader could hardly fail to notice if he scratched the surface a little, critical articles crying out, indeed begging, for a return to the Greek and Latin greats, to the Troubadours, to the dolce stil nuovo and the classics of Spain, France and England, more culture! More culture! Read Whitman and Pound and Eliot, read Neruda and Borges and Vallejo, read Victor Hugo, for God’s sake, and Tolstoy, and proudly I cried myself hoarse in the desert, but my vociferations and on occasions my howling could only be heard by those who were able to scratch the surface of my writings with the nails of their index fingers, and they were not many, but enough for me, and life went on and on and on, like a necklace of rice grains, on each grain of which a landscape had been painted, tiny grains and microscopic landscapes, and I knew that everyone was putting that necklace on and wearing it, but no one had the patience or the strength or the courage to take it off and look at it closely and decipher each landscape grain by grain, partly because to do so required the vision of a lynx or an eagle, and partly because the landscapes usually turned out to contain unpleasant surprises like coffins, makeshift cemeteries, ghost towns, the void and the horror, the smallness of being and its ridiculous will, people watching television, people going to football matches, boredom navigating the Chilean imagination like an enormous aircraft carrier. And that’s the truth. We were bored. We intellectuals. Because you can't read all day and all night. You can't write all day and all night. Splendid isolation has never been our style...","author":"Roberto Bolaño","tags":["boredom","criticism","intellectual","intellectualism","reading","writing"],"id":6736,"author_id":"Roberto+Bola%C3%B1o"},{"text":"I treat my thoughts like an old person treats their valuables: I cannot for the life of me proceed to throwing them out.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["artist","belief","brain","cognition","confession","consideration","creativity","creed","death","discard","funny","funny-but-true","habits","honesty","humor","instinct","intellectual","intuition","irrational","knowledge","life","logic","mind","negativity","old-habits","old-person","opinion","original-thought","positivity","precious","psychology","rational","rationalization","sentimental","stubborn","think","thinker","thinking","thought","thoughts","tradition","treasure","valuable","wisdom"],"id":6887,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"The problem arises when a society respects its scholars lesser and lesser and replaces intellectualism with anti-intellectualism. Such society forces the most intellectual members of its, toward alienation and instead develops populism and irrationalism and then calls it anti-elitism. On the other hand, scholars, due to being undermined by the society, find any effort hopeless and isolate themselves into their work. For a scholar, personally, nothing changes because the scholar always is a scholar no matter having someone to share the knowledge with or not, but the true problem forms in the most ordinary sections of the society, which eventually creates an opportunity for propaganda, conspiracy theories, rhetoric, and bogus.","author":"Kambiz Shabankare","tags":["alienation","anti-elitism","anti-intellectualism","bogus","conspiracy","conspiracy-theories","intellectual","intellectualism","irrationalism","knowledge","problem","propaganda","respect","rhetoric","scholar","scholars","society","undermined"],"id":9115,"author_id":"Kambiz+Shabankare"},{"text":"Knowledge is intellectual art.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["education","educational-philosophy","intellectual","know","knowledge","learning","lifelong-learner","philosophy","read","self-education","self-improvement","studies"],"id":11383,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"Interest in temperament as an individual difference dimension of importance in one's behavior leads to reanalysis of both theoretical and methodological considerations relating to the construct.","author":"Moutasem Algharati","tags":["advice-for-daily-living","affection","allowance","behavioral-change","behaviors","consideration","consideration-of-others","construct","construction","decision","decisions-inspirational","differences","dimensions","dimensions-of-consciousness","experience","importance","individual-rights","intellectual","interesting-perspection-of-life","interesting","life-philosophy","life","long-term-relationships","love","relationship","short-inspirational","short-term","temper","temperament"],"id":13553,"author_id":"Moutasem+Algharati"},{"text":"In Indian social-cultural-political discourse there is a general tendency to ignore deeper, intellectual thought, and the sensationalist mass media has actually contributed to a great dumbing down of even the educated masses. In this climate where any and all intellectuality has been mostly confined to a few ivory towers of academy, it is difficult to get even the educated and socio-economically privileged section of the society interested in the idea of exploring any deeper intellectual thought. It seems as if the trinity of pop-sociology, pop-psychology and pop-culture has taken over the general mentality of the society leaving little room for any serious, intellectually rigorous discourse on social-cultural phenomena. If at all, there is any serious attempt to think through and understand the observed phenomena, it is almost always done using the intellectual theories and frameworks developed in the Western academic circles. But this habit of non-thinking or thinking only in terms of borrowed categories must change if we want India to awaken to her innate intellectual potential.","author":"Beloo Mehra","tags":["india","intellectual","media","society"],"id":15601,"author_id":"Beloo+Mehra"},{"text":"A writer should be able to open a window or two for others to see the world and themselves in a new light. Anything less is just self–indulgence and intellectual masturbation.","author":"Barista Uno","tags":["intellectual","light","masturbation","self-indulgence","window","writer","writing"],"id":18446,"author_id":"Barista+Uno"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":168,"pages":17,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}