Pseudo-intellectuals differ from real intellectuals in that they make bubbles of complex phrases. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
“Later the place was as deserted as Malcolm Muggeridge's Christmas party of fellow intellectuals.” — William Donaldson Copy Share Image
Intellectuals are good at seeing the big picture. But they are not so good at process. — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
Don't ever let anybody teach you to think; it is the curse of the world. — Theodore H White Copy Share Image
Intellectuals are people who go to study things other people do naturally. — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
“most of the leading Enlightenment intellectuals were producers of racist ideas and abolitionist thought.10” — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“The real problem of the world is that the number of the current idiots is much greater than the intellectuals of the… — Kambiz Shabankare Copy Share Image
Social engaged intellectuals must accept reality as they found it and shape it toward positive social goals, not stand aside in self-righteous… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The world is your kaleidoscope,and the varying combinations of colors which at every moment it presents to you, are the exquisitely adjusted… — James Allen Copy Share Image
Let's face it, most of us are not half as smart as we may sometimes think we are-- and for intellectuals, not… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Smart is being Intellectual. Being wise is learning from your mistakes and gaining knowledge, that turn into wisdom that makes good decisions! — Glen Rambharack Copy Share Image
Intellectuals may like to think of themselves as people who "speak truth to power" but too often they are people who speak… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“Pessimism is too easy, even delicious, the badge and plume of intellectuals everywhere. It absolves the thinking classes of solutions. We” — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
“Shun too great a desire for knowledge, for in it there is much fretting and delusion. Intellectuals like to appear learned and… — Thomas à Kempis Copy Share Image
Intellectuals are real and actuals who speak first to bare open and bring fore the burning matters factual before others can speak… — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image
“The communist regime in the East could stand and grow due to the enthusiastic support from an enormous number of Western intellectuals… — Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“We're a bunch of intellectuals who sit in the Atelier or in the Grillon and talk to each other. And when we… — Ahdaf Soueif Copy Share Image
A real intelligent or brilliant or intellectual or genius or wise is always nice to distinguish and differentiate effortlessly the virtues from… — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image
Out-of-step intellectuals like Noam Chomsky and the deceased Edward Said have often been dismissed as crazy extremists, 'anti-American,' and in Mr. Said's… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
There are not many intellectuals left of Harold Pinter's stature who dare raise their voices - and with such force - against… — Gioconda Belli Copy Share Image
“I think we're going back to the way things use to be, before a bunch of European intellectuals in tights decided to… — G. Willow Wilson Copy Share Image
“The American intellectuals, in their preoccupation with reality, seem to have forgotten that the real enemy is War rather than imperial Germany.… — Randolph Bourne Copy Share Image
“So weak are their [Men's] intellectuals, and so untuned are their organs to the voice of reason, that custom makes more absolute… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
They [intellectuals] coined most of the slogans that guided the butcheries of Bolshevism, Fascism, and Nazism. Intellectuals extolling the delights of murder,… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
There was a time when intellectual meant someone who uses reason and intellect. Today, people who call themselves intellectuals are in a… — Bill Whittle 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
“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
“They were soft-centered, emotional beings wrapped in a terrified carapace, that even though they might appear rational and collected on paper, so… — Jean Korelitz Copy Share Image
“In particular, I want to focus on the moral and judgmental credentials of intellectuals to tell mankind how to conduct itself. How… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Telly never has any smart, amusing intellectuals living on a council estate. — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
The trouble with me is, I belong to a vanishing race. I'm one of the intellectuals. — Robert E. Sherwood Copy Share Image
Trendy intellectuals always take action for every cause that's been in fashion. — Ray Davies Copy Share Image
The intellectuals and the young, booted and spurred, feel themselves born to ride us. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
No modern nation has ever constructed a foreign policy that was acceptable to its intellectuals — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
There is a gulf between the Arab peoples and Arab intellectuals. — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image