Intellectuals ... regard over-simplification as the original sin of the mind and have no use for the slogans, the unqualified assertions and… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Intellectuals that read a lot of books might not have been interested in Mobb Deep before 'My Infamous Life,' but now they… — Prodigy Copy Share Image
“So many revolutionaries are intellectuals, a class of people whose aspirations tend to run ahead of their capabilities. Just” — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
[One task of intellectuals is] to break down the stereotypes and reductive categories that are . . . limiting to human thought and communication. — Edward Said Copy Share Image
As a child I wanted to be a grown-up. I wanted to know everything - not that I like to talk about… — Karl Lagerfeld Copy Share Image
I think Black intellectuals see too deeply. That's the problem. It's a cause of anxiety, because we see things differently. — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
This whole theory of alienation that intellectuals have been passing on, really is just to stop a lot of ham acting. If… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Intellectuals are the kind of people who demand evidence and are shocked by logical inconsistencies and fallacies. They regard oversimplification as the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“to bar communication between intellectuals, who are always our best hope of peace, is particularly self-defeating and inane. It declares, inter alia,… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
Many intellectuals feel themselves to be Supermen who are spokesmen for the people. But in my opinion, they're to be pitied. Under… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
There was no point in seeking to convert the intellectuals. For intellectuals would never be converted and would anyway always yield to… — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
“Anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the businessman," by which he meant that those at the top of the heap use… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Intellectuals of the categories happen to enjoy unusual privilege, unique in history, I suppose. It's easy enough to find ugly illustrations of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Where intellectuals have played a role in history, it has not been so much by whispering words of advice into the ears… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“You don’t have to worry about the intellectuals, Wesley. Just put a few of them on the government payroll and send them… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“The tragedy is that thinking men, so-called intellectuals, seem to threaten the electorate. We have in this country an anti-intellectual strain that… — Myrna Loy Copy Share Image
“OVER the past two hundred years the influence of intellectuals has grown steadily. Indeed, the rise of the secular intellectual has been… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
“To leave town, and the struggle and the swim of life, and go and hide yourself in a farmhouse is not life… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
All I knew about Ethiopia was from a few records that I like, as well as what I read about the famine.… — Flea Copy Share Image
Most of intellectuals are false prophets, flatterers of the court. The real prophets are the exception and treated badly. How badly they're… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Many intellectuals in America and in Europe, they are in the habit of taking sides: who are the bad guys? who are… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Philosophers (and probably most intellectuals) are more interested in pursuing what they see as the logical implications of their theories than they… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
It is ironic that the United States should have been founded by intellectuals, for throughout most of our political history, the intellectual… — Richard Hofstadter 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
“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
“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
“A fundamental approach to life transformation is using social media for therapy; it forces you to have an opinion, provides intellectual stimulation,… — Germany Kent 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
The distinction between pseudo-intellectual and intellectual consists in the lack of bases of pseudo-intellectuals theses, presence of dogma and authority, and pseudo-intellectuals… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
“And secretly I fell prey to the one of the besetting sins of western intellectuals, which normally I abhor: I began to… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
Secular intellectuals may wax eloquent about 'true Islam' being humane and peaceful, on TV programmes, but it is clear that they have… — Subramanian Swamy Copy Share Image
Want to depose the government of a poor country with resources? Want to bash Muslims? Want to build support for American military… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
“Those intellectuals are our natural enemies; the only kind who are worth anything are the musicians and the dancers: they don’t insult… — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share Image
My very first products were hand-made, one-of-a-kind pins. When I finally realized I could repeat a phrase to make multiples, 'intellectuals gone… — Anne Taintor Copy Share Image
What the British seem to like are television historians and naturalists, not public intellectuals. You can't help feeling that's because one supplies… — Will Self Copy Share Image
I think public intellectuals have a responsibility - to be self-critical on the one hand, to do serious, nuanced work rigorously executed;… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
My parents divorced. There was the usual awkward business of going between them, but I was mostly with my mother. She remarried… — Jacob Rothschild Copy Share Image
Many Afghan intellectuals in the United States believe that their country is best kept together. They are encouraged by the fact that… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
My memory - faded, as I say - is that Paul Johnson was trying to vilify all intellectuals who were at all… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
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