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I hate people who over intellectualize. It bores me deeply. -- Carine Roitfeld
I've always believed in instinct over intellect. The instinct is what you always knew; intellect is what you figure out. -- Michka Assayas
Aesthetes have it all over intellectuals in one very important respect: You'll rarely catch us hustling anyone off to the nearest guillotine. We're too busy trying to make the world more beautiful. Our hands are stained with ink and paint, not blood. -- Terry Teachout
Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks. -- Anthony Trollope
All observers not laboring under hallucinations of the senses are agreed, or can be made to agree, about facts of sensible experience, through evidence toward which the intellect is merely passive, and over which the individual will and character have no control. -- Chauncey Wright
The battle was first waged over the right of the Negro to be classed as a human being with a soul; later, as to whether he had sufficient intellect to master even the rudiments of learning; and today it is being fought out over his social recognition. -- James Weldon Johnson
Over intellect will make you a genius, over emotions will make you a lunatic. -- Amit Kalantri
It's all about the triumph of intellect and romance over brute force and cynicism. -- Craig Ferguson
There is genius as well in virtue as in intellect. 'Tis the doctrine of faith over works. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Communism and socialism, programs for intellectual control over society ... fascism, a program for the social control of intellect. -- Robert M. Pirsig
If one uses one's intellect to become master over the unlimited emotions, it may produce a sorry and diversionary effect upon the intellect. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The human intellect owes its superiority over that of the lower animals in great measure to the stimulus which alcohol has given imagination. -- Samuel Butler
It would be great to just be able to ignore everything and pitch to a spot, to suppress the intellect and let the intuition take over. -- Barry Zito

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