There are some things only intellectuals are crazy enough to believe. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“I think academics and intellectuals are the natural enemies of imagination and intelligence.” — Steve Merrick Copy Share Image
Since the 18th century, many Western intellectuals have predicted religion's imminent demise. — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
We mustn't forget how quickly the visions of genius become the canned goods of intellectuals. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“Self-identified intellectuals were among the most dangerous people on the planet.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
It's the job of intellectuals and writers to cast doubt on perfection. — Antonio Tabucchi Copy Share Image
Your intellect and reasoning are compromised if you are not open-minded. — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
Intelligent people tend to have less friends than the average person. The smarter you are, the more selective you become! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
An intelligent person is open-minded enough to thoughtfully consider an idea, even if they do not immediately agree with it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is a hard thing for intellectuals to acknowledge benefits from their rich moral inferiors who never so intended it. — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
“Academics were not intellectuals; they were not curious, they built their stolid tents of specialized knowledge and stayed securely in them.” — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
There is a long dishonourable tradition of western intellectuals who have been duped by Moscow. The list includes Bernard Shaw, the Webbs,… — Luke Harding Copy Share Image
“Ideas are not intellectuals' toys: ideas have consequences, for good and for ill, in what even intellectuals sometimes call "the real world".” — George Weigel Copy Share Image
“Most modern intellectuals and scientists have hardly any interest in place, for they consider their theories to be applicable everywhere.” — Alastair Bonnett Copy Share Image
There are clearly many Egyptian free-thinkers and intellectuals - lots of wonderful Egyptian artists and architects and scientists. — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
The intellectual ... may live for ideas, as I have said, but something must prevent him from living for one idea, from… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
You have to understand that the I.D.W. emerged as a response to a world where perfectly reasonable intellectuals were being regularly mislabeled… — Eric Weinstein Copy Share Image
“That's the point. If these Labour MP's were really working men, they'd have some sense. But most of 'em, or at least… — Carter Dickson Copy Share Image
“There are men who, at the bottom of the ladder, battle to rise; they study, struggle, keep their wits alive and eventually… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
Public intellectuals come from a range of areas and use their expertise to comment more widely than just their field. They want… — Susie Orbach Copy Share Image
“Unlike the masses, intellectuals have a taste for rationality and interest in facts. Their critical habit of mind makes them resistant to… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Considering how often throughout history even intelligent people have been proved to be wrong, it is amazing that there are still people… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
It is certain that many intellectuals envy the higher income of prosperous businessmen and that these feelings drive them toward socialism. They… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“Exilic Intellectuals 1 "It is part of morality not to be at home in one's home." —Theodore W. Adorno "[I am] the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“what I defend above all is the possibility and the necessity of the critical intellectual, who is firstly critical of the intellectual… — Pierre Bourdieu Copy Share Image
Every intellectual has a very special responsibility. He has the privilege and the opportunity of studying. In return, he owes it to… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
“Nor were the intellectuals of the 1920s a vanguard of a new outlook, as they themselves supposed, but the exhausted rearguard of… — Correlli Barnett Copy Share Image
Why do I think that we, the intellectuals, are able to help? Simply because we, the intellectuals, have done the most terrible… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
“In some quarters, and particularly among those who comment on these matters in in political circles or in the media or the… — Stefan Collini Copy Share Image
“What never fails inside the mind of an intellectual never works outside the confines of his head. The world’s stubborn refusal to… — Daniel J. Flynn Copy Share Image
The intellectual is always showing off, the lover is always getting lost. The intellectual runs away. afraid of drowning; the whole business… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Real intellectuals like to escape once in a while from their world of intellect. — Desi Arnaz Copy Share Image
Unlike the masses, intellectuals have a taste for rationality and an interest in facts. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“As things stand the "intellectuals" only come out to lick the bones left over by the tyrant.” — Nilantha Ilangamuwa Copy Share Image
“Poets and intellectuals...are the ones the tyrants go after first.” — Frederick Smock Copy Share Image
Good politicians need not be intellectuals, but they should have intellectual lives. — Gary Gutting Copy Share Image
“Being an intellectual among intellectuals means nothing. There must be more.” — Darnell Lamont Walker Copy Share Image
To say I don't know when you don't know, is actually a correct answer. — Mufti Ismail Menk Copy Share Image