“I like to go to Starbucks and watch the intellectuals. I observe them and their intellectualness. They in turn observe me drinking… — Ryan Lilly Copy Share Image
Intellectuals incline to be individualists, or even independents, are not team conscious and tend to regard obedience as a surrender of personality. — Harold Nicolson Copy Share Image
The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works. Jacques Barzun, 1959 all ignorance toboggans into know and trudges up to… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
Certainly the party counts a considerable number of intellectuals among its members, but I am by no means disposed to apologise for… — Harry Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
Intellectuals and creative people, once they start talking about God they get put into this other category: 'I don't go to people's… — David Berman Copy Share Image
Nothing appeals to intellectuals more than the feeling that they represent 'the people'. Nothing, as a rule, is further from the truth — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
It's no surprise to me that intellectuals commit suicide, go mad or die from drink. We feel things more than other people.… — Sue Townsend Copy Share Image
Intellectualism came very late to America. That's why Americans are so proud of it. I found very few real intellectuals in America.… — Douglas Sirk Copy Share Image
It is one of the great ironies of corporate control that the corporate state needs the abilities of intellectuals to maintain power,… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
“Traditional American intellectuals are, in a sense, increasingly reactionary, and quite often proudly (and perversely) ignorant of many of the truly significant… — John Brockman Copy Share Image
Intellectuals know how to answer the question, 'What God do I believe in?' not only through the question of 'What God do… — Yair Lapid Copy Share Image
I'd always admired the intellectuals who had made the transition into politics - Mario Vargas Llosa in Peru, Vaclav Havel in the… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
My memory - faded, as I say - is that Paul Johnson was trying to vilify all intellectuals who were at all… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Many Afghan intellectuals in the United States believe that their country is best kept together. They are encouraged by the fact that… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
My parents divorced. There was the usual awkward business of going between them, but I was mostly with my mother. She remarried… — Jacob Rothschild Copy Share Image
I think public intellectuals have a responsibility - to be self-critical on the one hand, to do serious, nuanced work rigorously executed;… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Intellectuals love Jefferson and hate markets, and intellectuals write most of the books. Intellectuals often think that they should, for the benefit… — John Steele Gordon Copy Share Image
“And I wonder, therefore, how James Atlas can have been so indulgent in his recent essay ‘The Changing World of New York… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I reached the age of 70, because I have cultivated an association of multicultural intellectuals who are informed and alert to whatever… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
Intellectuals resist faith longer because they can: where ordinary people are helpless before the light, intellectuals are clever enough to spin webs… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“Over the years I have had much occasion to ponder this word, the intelligentsia . We are all very fond of including… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“During the Bosnian war in the late 1990s, I spent several days traveling around the country with Susan Sontag and her son,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“I grew up in an atmosphere tinged with militarism, and afterwards I spent five boring years within the sound of bugles. To… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“My experience is that people who call themselves "The Intellectuals" understand theories, but they do not understand things. I have long been… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
You know, it's one thing about intellectuals, they prove that you can be absolutely brilliant and have no idea what's going on. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“Intellectuals as a class are notoriously prone to fine-sounding theoretical schemes that lead to catastrophe, such as Social Darwinism, Marxism or indeed… — Nicholas Wade Copy Share Image
It is amazing how many of those who consider themselves thinking people respond automatically to words the way Pavlov's dog was conditioned… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I like people who love books and movies and art and want to talk about it all the time, because that's basically… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
“Though it always comes as a surprise to intellectuals, there are some forms of stupidity that one must be highly intelligent and… — J. Budziszewski Copy Share Image
There are indications that today the intellectuals are coming back to [Albert] Camus. History has given them reason to, with the fall… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
“Despite, or because of their faith in miraculous cures, a strain of superstitious belief ran through this proud, emotionally distant family of… — Meryle Secrest Copy Share Image
As a child I wanted to be a grown-up. I wanted to know everything - not that I like to talk about… — Karl Lagerfeld Copy Share Image
“So many revolutionaries are intellectuals, a class of people whose aspirations tend to run ahead of their capabilities. Just” — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
[One task of intellectuals is] to break down the stereotypes and reductive categories that are . . . limiting to human thought and communication. — Edward Said Copy Share Image
I know I've got a degree. Why does that mean I have to spend my life with intellectuals? I've got a lifesaving… — Victoria Wood Copy Share Image
This whole theory of alienation that intellectuals have been passing on, really is just to stop a lot of ham acting. If… — John Hurt 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
[James] Baldwin "was one of greatest intellectuals of his time. He was an important voice, period, not an important black voice." — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
The strange proposition that black intellectuals - regardless of their training - are 'race experts' mainly because they are black is naive… — Carl Hart Copy Share Image
“But we mustn’t forget how quickly the visions of genius become the canned goods of the intellectuals.” — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
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