Intellectual Quote by Cornel West Download Open image “To be an intellectual really means to speak a truth that allows suffering to speak.” — Cornel West ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Intellectual Mean Really mean Speak Suffering Truth
“The intellectual is not defined by professional pursuit and type of occupation. Nor are good upbringing and a good family enough in themselves to… — Alexander Solschenizyn Copy Share Image
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
An intellectual may be defined as a man who speaks with general authority about a subject on which he has no particular competence. — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them. — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
What is an intellectual? In general, someone seriously devoted to what used to be called the “life of the mind”: thinking pursued not instrumentally,… — Gary Gutting Copy Share Image
The intellectual is an individual with a specific public role in society that cannot be reduced simply to . . a faceless professional. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I don’t really know what “intellectual” means, but if it means you’ve got a desire to learn, you’ve got a desire to look for… — Pete Doherty Copy Share Image
The intellectual is not defined by professional group and type of occupation. Nor are good upbringing and a good family enough in themselves to… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
An intellectual is someone who avoids the mundane by lowering his handicap. — Richard Reeves Copy Share Image
An intellectual is someone who has found something more interesting than sex. — Edgar Wallace Copy Share Image
“Being an intellectual among intellectuals means nothing. There must be more.” — Darnell Lamont Walker Copy Share Image
There has certainly been ugly, right-wing hatred targeting Barack Obama. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
What is accurately portrayed is the rich humanity not just of Martin Luther King but of the movement, which was a multiracial movement. You… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I feel as if I have been blessed to undergo a transformation from 'gangster' to 'redeemed sinner with gangster proclivities.' — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“Like King, we need to put on our cemetery clothes and be coffin-ready for the next great democratic battle.” — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“You can't really move forward until you look back. [From Remaking America panel discussion at George Washington University]” — Cornel West Copy Share Image
When we think of globalization we are thinking in part of structures and institutions that have been developed over time and that have allowed… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
The challenge artists face today is whether to be an underground, unheard genius, or to dilute their art for the marketplace. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
The need of black conservatives to gain the respect of their white peers deeply shapes certain elements of their conservatism. In this regard, they… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
For me, musicians are poets. Beethoven describes himself as a poet of tones, just like Coltrane's a poet of tempo. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I don't draw any distinctions between forms of bigotry or forms of ideology that lose sight of the humanity of people. I can't stand… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Barack Obama has domesticated the left in such a way that we feel as if we have no alternative but him...I refuse to accept… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Larry Summers, I think, he had a long history of arrogance and relative ignorance about poor people's culture and working people's culture and so… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Let me tell you that atheism has never painted a masterpiece. Atheism has never dispelled fear. Atheism has never healed a disease; faith in… — John Hagee Copy Share Image
I am convinced that we will never build a democratic state based on rule of law if we do not at the same time… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Today it is the skeptics who are the social conformists, though because of powerful intellectual propaganda they continue to enjoy thinking of themselves as… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Faith is the avenue to salvation. Not intellectual understanding. Not money. Not your works. Just simple faith. How much faith? The faith of a… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
Laughter is one of the great beacons in life because we don't refract it by gunning it through our intellectual prism. What makes us… — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Ideal for the child and society in the best of times, Rudolf Steiner's brilliant process of education is critically needed and profoundly relevant now… — Joseph Chilton Pearce Copy Share Image
It only takes a day to change someone from an anti-intellectual to an intellectual by persuading him that he might be one! — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life,… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image