Intellectuals Quotes · Page 5

I don't make movies for pseudo-intellectuals. I don't want them to watch my films.

— Priyadarshan

“I am an intellectual (who makes fun of other intellectuals).”

— Muriel Barbery

Well, the capacity of French intellectuals to understand a Texan way of thinking is finite.

— Henry A. Kissinger

For intellectuals, everyone's mind is closed but their own.

— Anthony Daniels

Ignorant music makes money. Intellectual music makes sense.

— Jasari

I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense

— Samuel Fuller

Intellectuals never sound more foolish than when posing as the last civilised man.

— Christopher Hitchens

I know I've got a degree. Why does that mean I have to spend my life with intellectuals? I've got a lifesaving…

— Victoria Wood

This whole theory of alienation that intellectuals have been passing on, really is just to stop a lot of ham acting. If…

— John Hurt

[One task of intellectuals is] to break down the stereotypes and reductive categories that are . . . limiting to human thought and communication.

— Edward Said

“So many revolutionaries are intellectuals, a class of people whose aspirations tend to run ahead of their capabilities. Just”

— William T. Vollmann

As a child I wanted to be a grown-up. I wanted to know everything - not that I like to talk about…

— Karl Lagerfeld

That is [Edward Said] proposal as to how the term should be used. It surely does not describe those who are called…

— Noam Chomsky

I strongly discourage any intellectuals, regardless of race, from speaking on matters for which they have limited or no expertise.

— Carl Hart

Intellectuals who live in Hungary, or who wish to work or lecture there, are extremely circumspect in their criticism.

— Hari Kunzru

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

“It was not the businessmen or the industrialists or the workers or the labor unions or the remnants of the feudal aristocracy…

— Ayn Rand

Those lucky enough to qualify as "intellectuals" have their own special responsibilities, deriving from their good fortune. Among these is the task…

— Noam Chomsky

“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

Complex astronomical instruments like the Antikythera Mechanism and the Nebra Sky Disk were made by Pagans. Our Pagan intellectual heritage includes poets…

— Brendan Myers

“...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

“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

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

In this country, unfortunately, as all over the world, we care so little, we have no deep feeling about anything. Most of…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“I cleaned the shit off my pink high-tops and drove home, stopping for an espresso at the coffeehouse across from the college.…

— Mary Rose O'Reilley

Why do I think that we, the intellectuals, are able to help? Simply because we, the intellectuals, have done the most terrible…

— Karl Popper

The intellectual is always showing off, the lover is always getting lost. The intellectual runs away. afraid of drowning; the whole business…

— Rumi

“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

“In some quarters, and particularly among those who comment on these matters in in political circles or in the media or the…

— Stefan Collini

“We're living in a world in which we're all survived, targeted, herded, and indoctrinated to an unprecedented degree. Our fallen, debased state…

— Mark Leyner

Every intellectual has a very special responsibility. He has the privilege and the opportunity of studying. In return, he owes it to…

— Karl Popper

All men are intellectuals, but not all men have in society the function of intellectuals

— Antonio Gramsci

Designers may be the true intellectuals of the future.

— Paola Antonelli

“A healthy man watched what he ate. An intelligent man watched what he watched.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The intelligent man without education is ahead of those who have their education only on the paper.

— Tamerlan Kuzgov

A man with intellect is unparalleled, but a man with a heart is divine.

— Anonymous

Just because we are intelligent doesn't mean we have to act like it!

— Rock Cowles

The respected intellectuals are those who conform and serve power interests.

— Noam Chomsky

I need something deeper. I need someone to challenge me intellectually

— Mabor Maker Kulang