Don't ever let anybody teach you to think; it is the curse of the world. — Theodore H White Copy Share Image
There is a gulf between the Arab peoples and Arab intellectuals. — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
No modern nation has ever constructed a foreign policy that was acceptable to its intellectuals — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
The intellectuals and the young, booted and spurred, feel themselves born to ride us. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The trouble with me is, I belong to a vanishing race. I'm one of the intellectuals. — Robert E. Sherwood Copy Share Image
Trendy intellectuals always take action for every cause that's been in fashion. — Ray Davies Copy Share Image
The last thing we need are more pointy-headed intellectuals running the government. — Charles Murray Copy Share Image
States have always needed intellectuals to con the public into believing that its rule is wise, good, and inevitable — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Whether a person's aim purpose is worldly or spiritual, the method to achieve it is the same..training your mind and focusing on… — Simi Ngr Copy Share Image
I'm sorry that I'm an intellectual. I'm not a skeptic, it doesn't take me twenty minutes to philosophically argue what colour the… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
“National Review's premise was that conformity was especially egregious among the intellectuals, that herd of independent minds.” — George will Copy Share Image
The more profound problem, however, is the degree to which many academic intellectuals, especially in the humanities, have lost their ability to… — Stephen D. Cox Copy Share Image
Even intellectuals should have learned by now that objective rationality is not the default position of the human mind, much less the… — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
“One must admit that even among intellectuals there are sometimes highly intelligent men; this cannot be denied." (100)” — Mikhail Bulgakov Copy Share Image
With intellectuals, moral thought is often less a tonic that quickens ethical action than a narcotic that deadens it. — Louis Kronenberger 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
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
[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
“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
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
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
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
“... intellectuals seemed to think that their life - the life of the mind, the endless self examination, the continuous autobiography afflicted… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Two world wars, three monstrous dictatorships-in Soviet Russia, Nazi Germany, Red China-plus every lesser variant of devastating socialist experimentation in a global… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“The gap (between intellectuals and politicians) divides writing hands, talking heads and thinking minds of this country into two sections. One section… — Mohammad Badrul Ahsan 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
In the century that has just passed, many of the intellectual elite went mad. It was as if, with the death of… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
“In particular, I want to focus on the moral and judgmental credentials of intellectuals to tell mankind how to conduct itself. How… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
“They were soft-centered, emotional beings wrapped in a terrified carapace, that even though they might appear rational and collected on paper, so… — Jean Korelitz 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
Most intellectuals today have a phobia of any explanation of the mind that invokes genetics. — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Good politicians need not be intellectuals, but they should have intellectual lives. — Gary Gutting Copy Share Image
To say I don't know when you don't know, is actually a correct answer. — Mufti Ismail Menk Copy Share Image
“Being an intellectual among intellectuals means nothing. There must be more.” — Darnell Lamont Walker Copy Share Image
Unrecognized alcoholism is the ruling pathology among writers and intellectuals. — Diana Trilling Copy Share Image
Intellectuals have opinions on subjects they just heard about five minutes ago. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
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