“As things stand the "intellectuals" only come out to lick the bones left over by the tyrant.” — Nilantha Ilangamuwa Copy Share Image
Unlike the masses, intellectuals have a taste for rationality and an interest in facts. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Real intellectuals like to escape once in a while from their world of intellect. — Desi Arnaz Copy Share Image
Your intellect and reasoning are compromised if you are not open-minded. — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
I need something deeper. I need someone to challenge me intellectually — Mabor Maker Kulang Copy Share Image
The respected intellectuals are those who conform and serve power interests. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The difference between western and eastern intellectuals is that the former have not been kicked in the ass enough. — Witold Gombrowicz 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
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
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
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
Western intellectual Islamologists have totally failed in their duties as intellectuals. They have betrayed their calling by abandoning their critical faculties when… — Wafa Sultan Copy Share Image
Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other… — Gerald Brenan Copy Share Image
The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals… — Aldous Huxley 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
Given their unusual privilege, Western intellectuals can realistically accomplish a great deal. The limits are imposed by will more than objective circumstances.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Evsei Slonim would have seen himself as a member of the intelligentsia, a classless class whose features Nabokov described as""the spirit of… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
“Part of the blame lies with intellectuals who are unable or unwilling to convey their ideas in terms that will play down… — Michael Perry Copy Share Image
The ways of change are dictated by the circumstances of each country, each place and each time. I don't think that arrogant… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
Intellectuals feel they are the most valuable people, the ones with the highest merit, and that society should reward people in accordance… — Robert Nozick 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
“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
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
“It was only natural that the intellectuals who questioned the necessity of American purpose did not rush from Cambridge and New Haven… — David Halberstam Copy Share Image
“...he was one of the great intellectuals of the 1940s who completed their higher studies in the West and returned to their… — Alaa Al Aswany Copy Share Image
“cademics and intellectuals are culture vultures. In a gathering of today’s elite, it is perfectly acceptable to laugh that you barely passed… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“I was utterly convinced that an intellectual could never be anything but an intellectual, was simply not capable of being anything else,… — Leonid Borodin Copy Share Image
“Two classes of people make up the world: those who have found God, and those who are looking for Him - thirsting,… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its circumstances are special,… — Edward W. Said Copy Share Image
The intelligent man without education is ahead of those who have their education only on the paper. — Tamerlan Kuzgov Copy Share Image
“A healthy man watched what he ate. An intelligent man watched what he watched.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image