Intellectual Quote by Eric Hoffer

“That's impossible,' said Fever, Engineerishly.”

— Philip Reeve

“Subject to intelligence, nothing is incalculable.”

— Dorothy Dunnett

“Genius cannot simply float in the clouds, it must also operate down on earth.”

— Irène Némirovsky

“It is almost impossible to substitute intelligence for experience.”

— Edward R. Murrow

“From a social standpoint the man of science does not exist.”

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Talented man cannot do the work of a genius man.”

— Amit Kalantri

“When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he…

— Arthur C. Clarke

“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

“An intellectual is some one who isn't exactly distinguished by his intellect. He claims that label to compensates for his inadequacies.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

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

— Steve Merrick

“Vulnerable, like all men, to the temptations of arrogance, of which intellectual pride is the worst, he [ the scientist ] must nevertheless remain…

— Louis de Broglie

“Academics were not intellectuals; they were not curious, they built their stolid tents of specialized knowledge and stayed securely in them.”

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie