“Most modern intellectuals and scientists have hardly any interest in place, for they consider their theories to be applicable everywhere.” — Alastair Bonnett Copy Share Image
I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher,… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Many people have observed that truth is stranger than fiction. This has led some intellectuals to conclude that it's stranger than non-fiction… — Brad Holland Copy Share Image
“Relativism is one of the many crimes committed by intellectuals. It is a betrayal of reason and of humanity.” — Karl R. Popper Copy Share Image
I don't think many people understand what racism is. The intellectuals use it like toilet paper; it's something they can use. It's… — Mark Fuhrman Copy Share Image
“Hatred of popular culture was to define a generation of American intellectuals and their claim to a superior sensibility.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Intellectuals should never marry; they won't enjoy it; and besides, they should not reproduce themselves. — Don Herold Copy Share Image
We've no use for intellectuals in this outfit. What we need is chimpanzees. Let me give you a word of advice: never… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
It is interesting - you find in the United States, there is a kind of anti-education hostility. It's the sort of Sarah… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“There has been no major revolution in modern history without intellectuals; conversely there has been no major counterrevolutionary movement without intellectuals. Intellectuals… — Edward W. Said Copy Share Image
“That's the point. If these Labour MP's were really working men, they'd have some sense. But most of 'em, or at least… — Carter Dickson Copy Share Image
Man tends to think that he is a creator, that he is like God. This is especially true of intellectuals, and in… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
The way in which a certain kind of political idealism has been discredited and scorned makes the danger not that intellectuals keep… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Visit a typical science classroom and you will discover far more than empirical facts being taught. The dominant worldview among scientific intellectuals… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
The left-wing thinkers and intellectuals have been more misogynist with me than the army. They can't accept that a young woman is… — Maria de Medeiros Copy Share Image
Sometimes among our more sophisticated, self-styled intellectuals--and I say self-styled advisedly; the real intellectual I am notsure would ever feel this way--some… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
What do intellectuals and opinion makers get from big government? An increasing number of cushy jobs in the bureaucracy, or in the… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
“Respectable opinion would never consider an assessment of the Reagan Doctrine or earlier exercises in terms of their actual human costs, and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“All my other current friends were "intellectuals"––Chad the Nietzschean anthropologist, Carlo Marx and his nutty surrealist low-voiced serious staring talk, Old Bull… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“In an intellectual battle, you do not need to convert everyone. History is made by minorities - or, more precisely, history is… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
They [intellectuals] coined most of the slogans that guided the butcheries of Bolshevism, Fascism, and Nazism. Intellectuals extolling the delights of murder,… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“The American intellectuals, in their preoccupation with reality, seem to have forgotten that the real enemy is War rather than imperial Germany.… — Randolph Bourne Copy Share Image
“So weak are their [Men's] intellectuals, and so untuned are their organs to the voice of reason, that custom makes more absolute… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
But, of course only morons would ever think or speak of themselves as intellectuals. That's why they all look so sad. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
“intellectuals became preoccupied with an aspiration as fundamental in humans as the urge for individual autonomy: the need to belong.” — Aileen M. Kelly Copy Share Image
“The conceit of literary intellectuals is to imagine that other people don't have ideas so that they can assume a superior status… — Nicholas Mosley Copy Share Image
One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Everybody loves Vegas, and everybody puts it down, especially intellectuals and artists. We have to rub our feet on it, but we're… — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
Weak people believe in revenge. Strong people believe in forgiving. And Intelligent people believe in ignoring! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the Arab world, there is no link between the cultural habits of peoples and the ways of thinking and creating of… — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
Intellectuals are not defined according to the jobs they do, but by the manner in which they act, the way they see… — Frank Furedi Copy Share Image
You have to get out in the world and meet folks on their own turf, something which a lot of urban radical… — Michael Yates Copy Share Image
The difference between a smart man and a wise man is that a smart man knows what to say, a wise man… — Azgraybebly Joslan Copy Share Image
Without doubt cats are intellectuals who have been, by some mysterious decree of Providence, deprived of the comfort of the word. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
The same group of New York pseudo-intellectuals who've put down prayer are the same ones who put down L.A. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
It was generally believed that Catholics were not interested in arts and science graduate schools. They weren't going to be intellectuals. And… — Andrew Greeley Copy Share Image
I know of people whose actions and words I admire and respect. Some are called "intellectuals," some are not. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
How often do you see young actors playing scholars? Or striving to be intellectuals, you know? It's not that often. — Jurnee Smollett-Bell Copy Share Image
“My favourite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence. [ Sources and Acknowledgements : Chapter 19]” — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image