Intellectuals Quote by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“I think academics and intellectuals are the natural enemies of imagination and intelligence.”

— Steve Merrick

“Oh, but I’m a scholar. I enjoy things with curious properties, and stupidity is most interesting. The more you study it, the further it…

— Brandon Sanderson

“Intellectuals are a pretty unique species all by themselves, given to advocating things out of sheer brazenness that they could not themselves stomach if…

— Matthew Scully

“I was ignorant at first of bookish subjects, but in his atmosphere, if one were no student, and didn't even try to keep up,…

— Gene Stratton-Porter

“Then we shan’t regard anyone as a lover of knowledge or wisdom who is fussy about what he studies…”

— Plato

“There are very few intellectual elites and those who think they are, are merely not and those who are not shows us the intellectual…

— Santosh Kalwar

“how foolish I was ever to have thought that professors were intellectual giants. They’re people—and afraid the rest of the world will find out.”

— Daniel Keyes

“Through an exaggerated reliance on the intellect we have come to view the imagination as a faculty not to be trusted or valued.”

— Sophie Cornish

“There is some advantage in having imagination, since that visionary faculty opens the mental eyes to facts that more practical and duller intellects could…

— E.D.E.N. Southworth

“A person is a scholar as long as he seeks knowledge. Once he thinks he knows, only then he becomes an ignorant.”

— Anonymous

“What was it about scholarship and learning, he wondered, that seemed to wither the hearts of University men, leaving them incapable of loving anything…

— Ellen Kushner

“I was by no means a scholar, simply an interested reader with nothing to do but live and learn.”

— Louis L'Amour