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Intellectuals Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- We know that words cannot move mountains, but they can move the multitude; and men are more ready to fight and die for a word…
- One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.
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- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- Modern civilization is largely devoted to the pursuit of the cult of delusion. There is no general information about the nature of… — Sogyal Rinpoche
- Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them. — Samuel Butler
- Intelligence is the capacity to be in the present. The more you are in the past or are in the future, the… — Rajneesh
- When I find a woman attractive, I have nothing at all to say. I simply watch her smile. Intellectuals take apart her… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
- It is ironic that the United States should have been founded by intellectuals, for throughout most of our political history, the intellectual… — Richard Hofstadter
- Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you. — Theodor Adorno