To say I don't know when you don't know, is actually a correct answer. — Mufti Ismail Menk Copy Share Image
Real intellectuals like to escape once in a while from their world of intellect. — Desi Arnaz Copy Share Image
Your intellect and reasoning are compromised if you are not open-minded. — Melchor Lim 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
Unlike the masses, intellectuals have a taste for rationality and an interest in facts. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Since the 18th century, many Western intellectuals have predicted religion's imminent demise. — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
But, of course only morons would ever think or speak of themselves as intellectuals. That's why they all look so sad. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
“intellectuals became preoccupied with an aspiration as fundamental in humans as the urge for individual autonomy: the need to belong.” — Aileen M. Kelly Copy Share Image
“The conceit of literary intellectuals is to imagine that other people don't have ideas so that they can assume a superior status… — Nicholas Mosley Copy Share Image
One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
I don't think many people understand what racism is. The intellectuals use it like toilet paper; it's something they can use. It's… — Mark Fuhrman Copy Share Image
“Hatred of popular culture was to define a generation of American intellectuals and their claim to a superior sensibility.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I think Black intellectuals see too deeply. That's the problem. It's a cause of anxiety, because we see things differently. — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
Man tends to think that he is a creator, that he is like God. This is especially true of intellectuals, and in… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
The way in which a certain kind of political idealism has been discredited and scorned makes the danger not that intellectuals keep… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Visit a typical science classroom and you will discover far more than empirical facts being taught. The dominant worldview among scientific intellectuals… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
The left-wing thinkers and intellectuals have been more misogynist with me than the army. They can't accept that a young woman is… — Maria de Medeiros Copy Share Image
“Intellectuals that approach me, only serve to feeding my intellectualism. Imaginists that approach me, only serve to enhancing my Imaginism. It's impossible… — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling… — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
Universities are an example of organizations dominated wholly by intellectuals; yet, outside pure science, they have not been an optimal milieu for… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Those lucky enough to qualify as "intellectuals" have their own special responsibilities, deriving from their good fortune. Among these is the task… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“To those who suspect that intellect is a subversive force in society, it will not do to reply that intellect is really… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
“In an intellectual battle, you do not need to convert everyone. History is made by minorities - or, more precisely, history is… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“All my other current friends were "intellectuals"––Chad the Nietzschean anthropologist, Carlo Marx and his nutty surrealist low-voiced serious staring talk, Old Bull… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Sometimes among our more sophisticated, self-styled intellectuals--and I say self-styled advisedly; the real intellectual I am notsure would ever feel this way--some… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
What do intellectuals and opinion makers get from big government? An increasing number of cushy jobs in the bureaucracy, or in the… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
“Respectable opinion would never consider an assessment of the Reagan Doctrine or earlier exercises in terms of their actual human costs, and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It is true that some secluded intellectuals in their esoteric circles talk differently. They proclaim the priority of what they call eternal… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“People are called intellectuals because they're privileged. It's not because they're smart or they know a lot. There are plenty of people… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“I think academics and intellectuals are the natural enemies of imagination and intelligence.” — Steve Merrick Copy Share Image
There are some things only intellectuals are crazy enough to believe. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
It's the job of intellectuals and writers to cast doubt on perfection. — Antonio Tabucchi Copy Share Image
“Self-identified intellectuals were among the most dangerous people on the planet.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
We mustn't forget how quickly the visions of genius become the canned goods of intellectuals. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
I don't make movies for pseudo-intellectuals. I don't want them to watch my films. — Priyadarshan Copy Share Image