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Intellectuals Quotes by Tahar Ben Jelloun
- We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without touching…
- Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a…
- 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…
- 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…
- There is a gulf between the Arab peoples and Arab intellectuals.
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- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you. — Theodor Adorno
- An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike. — Spiro T. Agnew
- An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way. — Charles Bukowski
- Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them. — Samuel Butler
- Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief… — Alexis Carrel
- We've no use for intellectuals in this outfit. What we need is chimpanzees. Let me give you a word of advice: never… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
- 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,… — Hugo Chavez
- The young intellectuals are all chanting, "Revolution, Revolution," but I say the revolution will have to start in our homes, by achieving… — Qiu Jin
- I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up. — Frank Lloyd Wright
- If it is the great delusion of moralists to suppose that all previous ages were less sinful than their own, then it… — Louis Kronenberger
- Modern civilization is largely devoted to the pursuit of the cult of delusion. There is no general information about the nature of… — Sogyal Rinpoche