“Trotsky was so much an intellectual that in the final analysis, Marxism was not quite enough for him.” — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Intellectuals (in the standard sense of the term, not [ Edward] Said's prescriptive sense) are the people who write history. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“A professional headshot in front of a bookshelf says you're an intellectual. A professional headshot peeking though a bookshelf says you're probably… — Ryan Lilly Copy Share Image
The humanity of famous intellectuals lies in being wrong with gracious courtesy when dealing with those who are not famous. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A man who says something different from the normal talk always appear to others to be running ahead, apart and fast even… — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image
How often do you see young actors playing scholars? Or striving to be intellectuals, you know? It's not that often. — Jurnee Smollett-Bell Copy Share Image
That peculiar disease of intellectuals, that infatuation with ideas at the expense of experience, that compels experience to conform to bookish expectations. — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
“My favourite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence. [ Sources and Acknowledgements : Chapter 19]” — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“The fatal conceit of intellectuals, he said, is to think that smart people can design an economy or a society better than… — David Boaz Copy Share Image
Secular intellectuals may wax eloquent about 'true Islam' being humane and peaceful, on TV programmes, but it is clear that they have… — Subramanian Swamy Copy Share Image
Want to depose the government of a poor country with resources? Want to bash Muslims? Want to build support for American military… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
“Those intellectuals are our natural enemies; the only kind who are worth anything are the musicians and the dancers: they don’t insult… — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share Image
My very first products were hand-made, one-of-a-kind pins. When I finally realized I could repeat a phrase to make multiples, 'intellectuals gone… — Anne Taintor Copy Share Image
“And secretly I fell prey to the one of the besetting sins of western intellectuals, which normally I abhor: I began to… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
The distinction between pseudo-intellectual and intellectual consists in the lack of bases of pseudo-intellectuals theses, presence of dogma and authority, and pseudo-intellectuals… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
There are innumerable instances suggesting that modern intellectuals do not believe themselves, that they don't really believe what they say, that they… — John Lukacs Copy Share Image
“It was not the businessmen or the industrialists or the workers or the labor unions or the remnants of the feudal aristocracy… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Intellectuals advertise their superiority to political practice but are absolutely in its thrall. It is no accident that Marxist theory and practice… — Allan Bloom 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
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
“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
I grew up in this house of intellectuals, and for me, it wasn't, like, a negative thing. And what I've discovered is,… — Sasha Velour Copy Share Image
I don't like intellectuals, or, at least, people who call themselves that way, because I am under the impression that there is… — Carine Roitfeld Copy Share Image
“...there was an impatience in her tone, almost an accusation, as she added that academics were not intellectuals; they were not curious,… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Complex astronomical instruments like the Antikythera Mechanism and the Nebra Sky Disk were made by Pagans. Our Pagan intellectual heritage includes poets… — Brendan Myers Copy Share Image
“The masses have not always felt themselves to be frustrated and exploited. But the intellectuals that formulated their views for them have… — Joseph Alois Schumpeter Copy Share Image
“What is the role of intellectuals in Europe? There's this debate in which all speakers do not appear to me to even… — Martinus Hendrikus Benders Copy Share Image
These anti-public intellectuals are part of a disimagination machine that solidifies the power of the rich and the structures of the military-industrial-surveillance-academic… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
America was founded by intellectuals, a rare occurrence in the history of modern nations We might even say that America was founded… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
America is run by the rich and powerful in their own interest. To an extent that I think is hard to exaggerate,… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
Those close to Mr. Obama say he grows irritated at being misunderstood - not just by opponents who insinuate that he caters… — Jodi Kantor Copy Share Image
There was no point in seeking to convert the intellectuals. For intellectuals would never be converted and would anyway always yield to… — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
Many intellectuals feel themselves to be Supermen who are spokesmen for the people. But in my opinion, they're to be pitied. Under… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
“to bar communication between intellectuals, who are always our best hope of peace, is particularly self-defeating and inane. It declares, inter alia,… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
One of the categories of people I don't like much are intellectuals. People say, 'Oh, you're an intellectual,' and I say, 'No!'… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
“Intellectuals are the kind of people who demand evidence and are shocked by logical inconsistencies and fallacies. They regard oversimplification as the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Futurism: This was a movement of intellectuals who wanted to replace tradition with the modern world of machinery, speed, violence, and public… — Brad Holland 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 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
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