Intellectuals Quotes
253 quotes by 201 authors
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
— Aristotle
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Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.
— Theodor Adorno
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An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.
— Spiro T. Agnew
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An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
— Charles Bukowski
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Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.
— Samuel Butler
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Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute…
— Alexis Carrel
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We've no use for intellectuals in this outfit. What we need is chimpanzees. Let me give you a word of advice: never say a word…
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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Venezuelan interests are to be defended by Venezuela. The U.S. should defend the interests of the U.S. Where are the U.S. people, where are the…
— Hugo Chavez
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The young intellectuals are all chanting, "Revolution, Revolution," but I say the revolution will have to start in our homes, by achieving equal rights for…
— Qiu Jin
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I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
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If it is the great delusion of moralists to suppose that all previous ages were less sinful than their own, then it is the great…
— Louis Kronenberger
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Modern civilization is largely devoted to the pursuit of the cult of delusion. There is no general information about the nature of mind. It is…
— Sogyal Rinpoche
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As soon as you see something, you already start to intellectualize it. As soon as you intellectualize something, it is no longer what you saw.
— Shunryu Suzuki
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Intelligence is the capacity to be in the present. The more you are in the past or are in the future, the less intelligent you…
— Rajneesh
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My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework.
— Sara Paretsky
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In my view, aiming at simplicity and lucidity is a moral duty of all intellectuals: lack of clarity is a sin, and pretentiousness is a…
— Karl Popper
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Capitalism is an art form, an Apollonian fabrication to rival nature. It is hypocritical for feminists and intellectuals to enjoy the pleasures and conveniences of…
— Camille Paglia
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Truth as a cultural ideal has functioned as an opiate, perhaps the only serious opiate of the modern world. Karl Marx said that religion was…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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I had supposed until that time that it was quite common for parents to love their children, but the war persuaded me that it is…
— Bertrand Russell
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When I find a woman attractive, I have nothing at all to say. I simply watch her smile. Intellectuals take apart her face in order…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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