Your intellect and reasoning are compromised if you are not open-minded. — Melchor Lim 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
Intelligent people tend to have less friends than the average person. The smarter you are, the more selective you become! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Even in the most favourable periods for cultural development , Intellectuals tend to have uneasy relationship with the status quo.” — Frank Furedi Copy Share Image
All men are intellectuals, but not all men have in society the function of intellectuals — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
“A healthy man watched what he ate. An intelligent man watched what he watched.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Unlike the masses, intellectuals have a taste for rationality and an interest in facts. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Among intellectuals who consider themselves 'scientific,' the phrase 'the nature of man' is apt to have the effect of a red flag… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
The common people, on the whole, are still living in the world of absolute good and evil from which the intellectuals have… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
It is amazing how many of those who consider themselves hinking people respond automatically to words the way Pavlov's dog was conditioned… — Thomas Sowell 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
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
The pressure on language to deteriorate does not come merely from below, from the "democratic" lev-elers. It comes also from above, from… — John Simon Copy Share Image
The stricter standards and independent, often conclusive, evidence in the physical sciences cannot be generalized to intellectual activity as a whole, even… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I think I'll always be a better playwright than a pundit, but I believe that writers should be public intellectuals and that… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In those days he really didn't know what he was talking about; that is to say, he was a young jailkid all… — Jack Kerouac 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
I've always thought Anne-Marie Slaughter would make a fantastic United States Senator or something. She's a real intellectual, but she's got enormous… — Michael Ignatieff 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
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
I don't bother writing about Fox News. It is too easy. What I talk about are the liberal intellectuals, the ones who… — Noam Chomsky 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
“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
“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
“Compare, for example, seventeenth century writers with those of the eighteenth. What a difference in tone and gait! The former, under a… — Edouard Berth Copy Share Image
“Computer science only indicates the retrospective omnipotence of our technologies. In other words, an infinite capacity to process data (but only data… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
Intellectuals are cynical and cynics have never built a cathedral. — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
