Intellectuals Quote by Mohammad Badrul Ahsan

“The tragedy is that thinking men, so-called intellectuals, seem to threaten the electorate. We have in this country an anti-intellectual strain that scares the…

— Myrna Loy

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

— Steve Merrick

There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than politicians think. We…

— Michel Foucault

“Intellectuals as a class are notoriously prone to fine-sounding theoretical schemes that lead to catastrophe, such as Social Darwinism, Marxism or indeed eugenics.”

— Nicholas Wade

Ideas are more powerful than people.

— Jim DeMint

“Ideas are not intellectuals' toys: ideas have consequences, for good and for ill, in what even intellectuals sometimes call "the real world".”

— George Weigel

There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than "politicians" think. We…

— Michel Foucault

“Intelligent people while impulsive, worth less than one stone on the path”

— Miguel Ángel Sáez Gutiérrez

Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values.

— Gerald Brenan

The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Being an intellectual among intellectuals means nothing. There must be more.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker