French intellectuals are mostly petit bourgeois, and it's hard to say whether that makes [Albert] Camus' work more valuable. — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
Intellectuals, who go after the crowd - have never been intellectuals. Intellectuals should either lead the crowd after themselves, or completely isolate… — Ilkin Santak 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
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
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
There are clearly many Egyptian free-thinkers and intellectuals - lots of wonderful Egyptian artists and architects and scientists. — Richard Engel 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
“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
“What he [the intellectual] should learn to do is to put what he has been able to salvage from the disciplines that… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“The fatal conceit of intellectuals, he said, is to think that smart people can design an economy or a society better than… — David Boaz Copy Share Image
“The passion with which native intellectuals defend the existence of their national culture may be a source of amazement; but those who… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
“Behaviorism was but one instance of a terrible temptation for all intellectuals, namely that of nothing-but-ism. History is nothing but the clash… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
In a fake and pretending world, being natural and true makes you an alien…attracting the still functional curious brains and boggles out… — Rizzi Vicci 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
“Atheism or similar charges was not unusual among intellectuals, nor condemned by the masses. The prize-winning plays of Aristophanes were not merely… — Benjamin Jowett Copy Share Image
“The family, with all its undoubted miseries (as well, of course, as joys) has long been the object of hate of ambitious… — Theodore Dalrymple 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
“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
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
The difference between western and eastern intellectuals is that the former has not been kicked in the ass enough. — Witold Gombrowicz 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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“Even in the most favourable periods for cultural development , Intellectuals tend to have uneasy relationship with the status quo.” — Frank Furedi 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
“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
“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
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
Intelligent people tend to have less friends than the average person. The smarter you are, the more selective you become! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is a long dishonourable tradition of western intellectuals who have been duped by Moscow. The list includes Bernard Shaw, the Webbs,… — Luke Harding Copy Share Image
It is a hard thing for intellectuals to acknowledge benefits from their rich moral inferiors who never so intended it. — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
“Academics were not intellectuals; they were not curious, they built their stolid tents of specialized knowledge and stayed securely in them.” — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
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