Intellectuals Quotes

253 Intellectuals quotes by 197 unique authors

Designers may be the true intellectuals of the future. — Paola Antonelli
Willing is superfluous for Me. For grace is ever available to devotees who have steady love and faith. Since I move freely with them, talking… — Sathya Sai Baba
There was a very serious communist strain among American intellectuals before the war. America was a more tolerant place in those days, and Communists were… — Ken Follett
Every intellectual has a very special responsibility. He has the privilege and the opportunity of studying. In return, he owes it to his fellow men… — Karl Popper
Prophet just means intellectual. They were people giving geopolitical analysis, moral lessons, that sort of thing. We call them intellectuals today. There were the people… — Noam Chomsky
Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second. — Maurice Ravel
The cultivation - even celebration - of victimhood by intellectuals, tort lawyers, politicians and the media is both cause and effect of today's culture of… — George Will
Multiculturalism asserts that all cultures are equal and therefore none may criticize another; intellectuals and politicians are therefore reluctant to declare the obvious superiority of… — Edwin A. Locke
It is true that some secluded intellectuals in their esoteric circles talk differently. They proclaim the priority of what they call eternal absolute values and… — Ludwig von Mises
Nothing could be more jolting and discordant with the vision of today's intellectuals than the fact that it was businessmen, devout religious leaders and Western… — Thomas Sowell
This national argument is usually interpreted as a battle between imperialists led by Roosevelt and Lodge and anti-imperialists led by William Jennings Bryan and Carl… — William Appleman Williams
It is one of the great ironies of corporate control that the corporate state needs the abilities of intellectuals to maintain power, yet outside of… — Chris Hedges
Jewish intellectuals contributed a great deal to insure that Europe became a continent of humanism, and it is with these humanist ideals that Europe must… — Daniel Barenboim
But the Spain which emerged around 1960, beginning with its economic miracle, created by the invasion of tourists, can no longer result in impassioned dedication… — Juan Goytisolo
And with each day that passed, the gulf broadened and my isolation became more accentuated. In such a situation, the discovery that my experience was… — Juan Goytisolo
Voters inclined to loathe and fear elite Ivy League schools rarely make fine distinctions between Yale and Harvard. All they know is that both are… — Russell Baker
Intellectuals tend to be arrogant. Intelligence, like money, is a good servant but a bad master. When practicing pranayama, the yogi [makes] himself humble and without… — B.K.S. Iyengar
Today's liberal intellectuals, who pride themselves on scientific method and being “broadminded”, are the most narrow-minded, self-righteous and hate-filled bigots in the history of humanity.… — George Lincoln Rockwell
As a child I wanted to be a grown-up. I wanted to know everything - not that I like to talk about it. I hate… — Karl Lagerfeld
The BIBLE - banned, burned, beloved. More widely read, more frequently attacked than any other book in history. Generations of intellectuals have attempted to discredit it, dictators… — Charles Colson
The student now goes to college to proclaim rather than to learn. A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent… — Spiro T. Agnew
Even intellectuals should have learned by now that objective rationality is not the default position of the human mind, much less the bedrock of human… — Roy Blount, Jr.
We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense — Samuel Fuller
Intellectuals incline to be individualists, or even independents, are not team conscious and tend to regard obedience as a surrender of personality. — Harold Nicolson
Fascist intellectuals, such as Ugo Spirito, made the round of conferences preaching the virtues of postcapitalism fascism and in fact tried to nudge the structure… — Charles S. Maier

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