An intelligent person is open-minded enough to thoughtfully consider an idea, even if they do not immediately agree with it. — Anonymous 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
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
There are some ideas so stupid that only intellectuals can believe in them, particularly left-wing intellectuals. — Poul Anderson Copy Share Image
Darkest of night, smoke out of cigarette and that beautiful mind. Did you just see...? The worlds envy me — Munif Gulroo Copy Share Image
I think that intellectuals who end up in hell will have to read page proofs and check indexes there. — Edward Teller Copy Share Image
The first socialists were the intellectuals; they, and not the masses, are the backbone of Socialism. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“Beer's intellectual. What a shame so many idiots drink it. - The Watchful Poker Chip of H. Matisse ” — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Mainstream Jewish intellectuals became 'pro'-Israel after the June 1967 war when Israel became the U.S.A.' s strategic asset in the Middle East,… — Norman Finkelstein Copy Share Image
We have so few unaffiliated public intellectuals now - people who are not beholden to a think tank, corporate-owned media, or academic… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
“If nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come, nothing is more harmful than an idea which is manipulated… — Mohammad Badrul Ahsan Copy Share Image
I'd always admired the intellectuals who had made the transition into politics - Mario Vargas Llosa in Peru, Vaclav Havel in the… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
Intellectuals know how to answer the question, 'What God do I believe in?' not only through the question of 'What God do… — Yair Lapid Copy Share Image
“Traditional American intellectuals are, in a sense, increasingly reactionary, and quite often proudly (and perversely) ignorant of many of the truly significant… — John Brockman Copy Share Image
It is one of the great ironies of corporate control that the corporate state needs the abilities of intellectuals to maintain power,… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
“Part of the blame lies with intellectuals who are unable or unwilling to convey their ideas in terms that will play down… — Michael Perry Copy Share Image
“Evsei Slonim would have seen himself as a member of the intelligentsia, a classless class whose features Nabokov described as""the spirit of… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
Given their unusual privilege, Western intellectuals can realistically accomplish a great deal. The limits are imposed by will more than objective circumstances.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Intellectuals feel they are the most valuable people, the ones with the highest merit, and that society should reward people in accordance… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
The ways of change are dictated by the circumstances of each country, each place and each time. I don't think that arrogant… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
There are not many intellectuals left of Harold Pinter's stature who dare raise their voices - and with such force - against… — Gioconda Belli Copy Share Image
“I think we're going back to the way things use to be, before a bunch of European intellectuals in tights decided to… — G. Willow Wilson Copy Share Image
I think that those of us who are what are called intellectuals make a terrible mistake in overvaluing the yen we have… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
“We're a bunch of intellectuals who sit in the Atelier or in the Grillon and talk to each other. And when we… — Ahdaf Soueif Copy Share Image
Out-of-step intellectuals like Noam Chomsky and the deceased Edward Said have often been dismissed as crazy extremists, 'anti-American,' and in Mr. Said's… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
A real intelligent or brilliant or intellectual or genius or wise is always nice to distinguish and differentiate effortlessly the virtues from… — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image
Intellectuals are real and actuals who speak first to bare open and bring fore the burning matters factual before others can speak… — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image
“Shun too great a desire for knowledge, for in it there is much fretting and delusion. Intellectuals like to appear learned and… — Thomas à Kempis Copy Share Image
“The communist regime in the East could stand and grow due to the enthusiastic support from an enormous number of Western intellectuals… — Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn 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
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
“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
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
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
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
“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
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
“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
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
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
