Intellectuals Quotes

Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals.

— Clare Boothe Luce

The so-called intellectuals don't like my films.

— Rohit Shetty

“Like most intellectuals he is intensely stupid.”

— Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.

— Edmund Wilson

Beekeeping is farming for intellectuals.

— Sue Hubbell

Revolution is the opium of the intellectuals.

— Jerzy Peterkiewicz

Intellectuals are too sentimental for me.

— Margaret Anderson

Not every boomerang returns, some choose freedom.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

“A healthy man watched what he ate. An intelligent man watched what he watched.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Designers may be the true intellectuals of the future.

— Paola Antonelli

All men are intellectuals, but not all men have in society the function of intellectuals

— Antonio Gramsci

Just because we are intelligent doesn't mean we have to act like it!

— Rock Cowles

I need something deeper. I need someone to challenge me intellectually

— Mabor Maker Kulang

The respected intellectuals are those who conform and serve power interests.

— Noam Chomsky

A man with intellect is unparalleled, but a man with a heart is divine.

— Anonymous

The intelligent man without education is ahead of those who have their education only on the paper.

— Tamerlan Kuzgov

“In the most secret heart of every intellectual ... there lies hidden ... the hope of power, the desire to bring his…

— Lionel Trilling

“Intellectuals cannot find the bottom (base) of the faith. It is not possible to do both together, to remain afloat and (also)…

— Dada Bhagwan

“Intellectuals are a pretty unique species all by themselves, given to advocating things out of sheer brazenness that they could not themselves…

— Matthew Scully

Public intellectuals are often put in the position of having their words, no matter how off-the-cuff, treated as doctrine.

— Roxane Gay

I think I'll always be a better playwright than a pundit, but I believe that writers should be public intellectuals and that…

— Tony Kushner

“Even in the most favourable periods for cultural development , Intellectuals tend to have uneasy relationship with the status quo.”

— Frank Furedi

Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often…

— Noam Chomsky

We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the…

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

Whenever there is injustice, oppression, aggression, violence, it's standard for it to be supported by those we now call "intellectuals," but typically…

— Noam Chomsky

Sometimes I get intimidated by people, intellectuals, because I don't have a great education. The only thing I feel helps me compete…

— Andie MacDowell

In those days he really didn't know what he was talking about; that is to say, he was a young jailkid all…

— Jack Kerouac

I think such an inquiry will reveal a rather different picture: namely, it will reveal a very strong tendency for the intellectuals…

— Noam Chomsky

“Intellectuals, freelance writers, investigative journalists, and midlist novelists are the analog to the family farmers, who have always struggled but simply can’t…

— Franklin Foer

So if you look at the writings of intellectuals, there are two kinds. One said, l"Look, if we fought harder we could…

— Noam Chomsky

Few people...have had much training in listening. The training of most oververbalized professional intellectuals is in the opposite direction. Living in a…

— Anonymous

The stricter standards and independent, often conclusive, evidence in the physical sciences cannot be generalized to intellectual activity as a whole, even…

— Thomas Sowell

“And so the German spirit, carousing in music, in wonderful creations of sound, and wonderful beauties of feeling and mood that were…

— Hermann Hesse

Intellectuals range through the finest gradations of kind and quality: from those who are merely educated neurotics, usually with strong hidden reactionary…

— Louise Bogan

“Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its circumstances are special,…

— Edward W. Said

“Two classes of people make up the world: those who have found God, and those who are looking for Him - thirsting,…

— Fulton J. Sheen

He (Intellectuals) claims that label to compensate for his own inadequacies. It's as old as that saying: tell me what you boast…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

“...he was one of the great intellectuals of the 1940s who completed their higher studies in the West and returned to their…

— Alaa Al Aswany

“It was only natural that the intellectuals who questioned the necessity of American purpose did not rush from Cambridge and New Haven…

— David Halberstam

“I was utterly convinced that an intellectual could never be anything but an intellectual, was simply not capable of being anything else,…

— Leonid Borodin