I think such an inquiry will reveal a rather different picture: namely, it will reveal a very strong tendency for the intellectuals… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Intellectuals, freelance writers, investigative journalists, and midlist novelists are the analog to the family farmers, who have always struggled but simply can’t… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
Sometimes I get intimidated by people, intellectuals, because I don't have a great education. The only thing I feel helps me compete… — Andie MacDowell Copy Share Image
Whenever there is injustice, oppression, aggression, violence, it's standard for it to be supported by those we now call "intellectuals," but typically… — 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
Politics in Bolivia must combine social consciousness with professional competency. In my administration, intellectuals from the upper class can be cabinet ministers… — Evo Morales 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
The intellectual ... may live for ideas, as I have said, but something must prevent him from living for one idea, from… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
Intellectuals tend to be arrogant. Intelligence, like money, is a good servant but a bad master. When practicing pranayama, the yogi [makes]… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Intellectuals are judged not by their morals, but by the quality of their ideas, which are rarely reducible to simple verdicts of… — Perry Anderson Copy Share Image
Most intellectuals outside the field of economics show remarkably little interest in learning even the basic fundamentals of economics. Yet they do… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
How many educated Americans can even remember the names of the assassinated Jesuit intellectuals of El Salvador, or would know where to… — Noam Chomsky 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
“Reading is perpetual nourishment, never a vehicle for vanity. Intellectuals, in general, are braggarts, perhaps because they do not possess a true… — Anonymous 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
[French intellectuals] could never address themselves to the working classes. They don't know what it means, and that gives them a bad… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image