Break Quote by Edward Said

To some extent we are all the prisoners of stereotypes; we see each other in terms of distorted and oversimplified images. Better communication in…

— Chester Bowles

“What matters is the character of...stereotypes, and the gullibility with which we employ them. And these in the end depend upon...our philosophy of life.…

— Walter Lippmann

Stereotypes fall in the face of humanity. We human beings are best understood one at a time.

— Anna Quindlen

Intellects whose desires have outstripped their understanding.

— Friedrich August von Hayek

Intellectuals are hindered on the way to being, by their narcissism.

— Erich Fromm

“Prejudices emerge from the disposition of the human mind to perceive and process information in categories. “Categories” is a nicer, more neutral word than…

— Carol Tavris

Intellectuals range through the finest gradations of kind and quality: from those who are merely educated neurotics, usually with strong hidden reactionary tendencies, through…

— Louise Bogan

Intellectuals are not defined according to the jobs they do, but by the manner in which they act, the way they see themselves, and…

— Frank Furedi

Plain intellectual thinking is the peak of ignorance because all that you will know is to play with a few aspects and make others…

— Jaggi Vasudev

The more profound problem, however, is the degree to which many academic intellectuals, especially in the humanities, have lost their ability to distinguish the…

— Stephen D. Cox

Intellectuals ... regard over-simplification as the original sin of the mind and have no use for the slogans, the unqualified assertions and sweeping generalizations.

— Aldous Huxley

Unlike the masses, intellectuals have a taste for rationality and an interest in facts.

— Aldous Huxley