Intelligent people tend to have less friends than the average person. The smarter you are, the more selective you become! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Books are the spiritual and intellectual food of the mind, and reading is a great enjoyment for those who desire to improve… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are some ideas so stupid that only intellectuals can believe in them, particularly left-wing intellectuals. — Poul Anderson Copy Share Image
Writers and intellectuals have a duty to humanity. It is to insist that the human entity remains the primary asset in overall… — Wole Soyinka 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
“Intellectuals are a pretty unique species all by themselves, given to advocating things out of sheer brazenness that they could not themselves… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
“Intellectuals cannot find the bottom (base) of the faith. It is not possible to do both together, to remain afloat and (also)… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“In the most secret heart of every intellectual ... there lies hidden ... the hope of power, the desire to bring his… — Lionel Trilling 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
So if you look at the writings of intellectuals, there are two kinds. One said, l"Look, if we fought harder we could… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Few people...have had much training in listening. The training of most oververbalized professional intellectuals is in the opposite direction. Living in a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Considering how often throughout history even intelligent people have been proved to be wrong, it is amazing that there are still people… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
It is certain that many intellectuals envy the higher income of prosperous businessmen and that these feelings drive them toward socialism. They… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“There are men who, at the bottom of the ladder, battle to rise; they study, struggle, keep their wits alive and eventually… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
Public intellectuals come from a range of areas and use their expertise to comment more widely than just their field. They want… — Susie Orbach Copy Share Image
“Unlike the masses, intellectuals have a taste for rationality and interest in facts. Their critical habit of mind makes them resistant to… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I reached the age of 70, because I have cultivated an association of multicultural intellectuals who are informed and alert to whatever… — Ishmael Reed 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
Intellectuals love Jefferson and hate markets, and intellectuals write most of the books. Intellectuals often think that they should, for the benefit… — John Steele Gordon Copy Share Image
Intellectuals resist faith longer because they can: where ordinary people are helpless before the light, intellectuals are clever enough to spin webs… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
In this country, unfortunately, as all over the world, we care so little, we have no deep feeling about anything. Most of… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
It is true that some secluded intellectuals in their esoteric circles talk differently. They proclaim the priority of what they call eternal… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“People are called intellectuals because they're privileged. It's not because they're smart or they know a lot. There are plenty of people… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the… — Tahar Ben Jelloun 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
“Even in the most favourable periods for cultural development , Intellectuals tend to have uneasy relationship with the status quo.” — Frank Furedi Copy Share Image
Public intellectuals are often put in the position of having their words, no matter how off-the-cuff, treated as doctrine. — Roxane Gay 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 cannot tolerate the chance event, the unintelligible: they have a nostalgia for the absolute, for a universally comprehensive scheme. — Raymond Aron Copy Share Image
Country and western is ignored by the intellectuals. They don't look at it as an art form. They think it's just somebody… — Ricky Skaggs Copy Share Image
The world is your kaleidoscope,and the varying combinations of colors which at every moment it presents to you, are the exquisitely adjusted… — James Allen Copy Share Image
Social engaged intellectuals must accept reality as they found it and shape it toward positive social goals, not stand aside in self-righteous… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“most of the leading Enlightenment intellectuals were producers of racist ideas and abolitionist thought.10” — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“The real problem of the world is that the number of the current idiots is much greater than the intellectuals of the… — Kambiz Shabankare Copy Share Image
You go to conferences, and your fellow African intellectuals - and even heads of state - they all say: 'Nigeria is a… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
The difference between western and eastern intellectuals is that the former has not been kicked in the ass enough. — Witold Gombrowicz Copy Share Image
Every White House has had its intellectuals, but very few presidents have been intellectuals themselves - Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Woodrow Wilson,… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
There are clearly many Egyptian free-thinkers and intellectuals - lots of wonderful Egyptian artists and architects and scientists. — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
“Ideas are not intellectuals' toys: ideas have consequences, for good and for ill, in what even intellectuals sometimes call "the real world".” — George Weigel Copy Share Image
