Princess Nokia Quotes

An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.

I like to think of myself as fairly intellectual.

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

It's usually only the intellectual ones who understand what's going on in what I do.

I think the sexiest thing on anybody is intelligence. I respect somebody who has a brain and wants to use it more than a pretty face and status.

The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind.

An intellectual is someone who avoids the mundane by lowering his handicap.

My father also happened to be an intellectual, as learned, literate, informed, and curious as anyone I have known. Unobtrusively and casually, he was my wise and gentle teacher.

The first complete sentence out of my mouth was probably that line about consistency being the hobgoblin of small minds.

Only a well-rounded intellect, a spirit nourished in the eternal sources of intelligence and culture, of justice and wisdom, is a safeguard against both indifference and skepticism.

One of the things that characterizes good intellectual work is a certain self-importance.

I've never professed to be an intellectual. I don't try to be.

To be intellectual does not require one to be alienated and oppositional.

Whoever does not love knowledge, then there is no good in him.

Do not be an arrogant scholar, for scholarship cannot subsist with arrogance.

I'm pretty smart.

A man who cannot think is not an educated man however many college degrees he may have acquired.

Our understanding of the world around us is constantly being redefined and expanded, and so therefore, it is wiser to be passionate about seeking for truth than knowing it.

Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

How can people be so stupid? I marvel at that. See, I think you have to work as being ignorant - and if you're gonna work at being ignorant, why not work at being informed?

My mother was a dominant force in my life. She had a very specific idea about education, which was: you should know everything about everything. It was quite simple. There was no exclusivity, and there really was no judgment.

I'm an intellectual.

In your thirst for knowledge, be sure not to drown in all the information.

A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.