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Intellectuals Quotes by Will Self
- There's a flip side to having prominent public intellectuals, which is that they start meddling in politics and often with quite disastrous results.
- What the British seem to like are television historians and naturalists, not public intellectuals. You can't help feeling that's because one supplies narrative and the…
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- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- 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
- An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike. — Spiro T. Agnew
- 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