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Unrecognized alcoholism is the ruling pathology among writers and intellectuals. — Diana Trilling
My career as a critic still lay in the future but unconsciously I may have been preparing for it. They were not easy companions, these… — Diana Trilling
The job of intellectuals is to come up with ideas, and all we've been producing is footnotes. — Theodore White
The biggest mischief in the past century has been perpetrated by Rousseau with his doctrine of the goodness of human nature. The mob and the… — Jacob Burckhardt
There are innumerable instances suggesting that modern intellectuals do not believe themselves, that they don't really believe what they say, that they say certain things… — John Lukacs
The trouble with me is, I belong to a vanishing race. I'm one of the intellectuals. — Robert E. Sherwood
No mercy for these enemies of the people, the enemies of socialism, the enemies of the working people! War to the death against the rich… — Vladimir Lenin
Two world wars, three monstrous dictatorships-in Soviet Russia, Nazi Germany, Red China-plus every lesser variant of devastating socialist experimentation in a global spread of brutality… — Ayn Rand
I believe God himself will someday debate with and answer every objection arrogant men can come up with against him; I believe he will humble… — Criss Jami
We, as conservative intellectuals, should not be in the business of making excuses for bad parliamentary decisions by Republican leaders in Congress. — David Frum
I realised quite early on that, although I wasn't trying to make a career speciality of it, I was playing slightly asexual, sociopathic intellectuals. — Benedict Cumberbatch
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. — Albert Einstein
Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them. — Albert Einstein
Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character. — Albert Einstein
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum. — Sam Harris
There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side. — Vaclav Havel
It is ironic that the United States should have been founded by intellectuals, for throughout most of our political history, the intellectual has been for… — Richard Hofstadter
In the Arab world, there is no link between the cultural habits of peoples and the ways of thinking and creating of modern intellectuals. They… — Tahar Ben Jelloun
We do not have many intellectuals who can speak out for us internationally. We have no writers who are recognized, respected and loved outside the… — Tahar Ben Jelloun
I think I'll always be a better playwright than a pundit, but I believe that writers should be public intellectuals and that theater, even more… — Tony Kushner
The war industry people are very together; they know exactly what they want; they don't even have to talk to each other. The peace industry… — Yoko Ono
I believe that everybody has the right to view his or her own body as a palette. However, I think intellectuals should at least try… — Camille Paglia
Most intellectuals today have a phobia of any explanation of the mind that invokes genetics. — Steven Pinker

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