Accomplish Quote by Noam Chomsky

The difference between western and eastern intellectuals is that the former has not been kicked in the ass enough.

— Witold Gombrowicz

The difference between western and eastern intellectuals is that the former have not been kicked in the ass enough.

— Witold Gombrowicz

The intellectual force of the West is still dominant, but other cultures are getting stronger. I expect that we will develop a new way…

— Rem Koolhaas

Intellectuals are good at seeing the big picture. But they are not so good at process.

— Michael Ignatieff

But once we recognize that many ideas that are taken to be quintessentially Western have also flourished in other civilizations, we also see that…

— Amartya Sen

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

The "intellectuals" will always have problems, because they always need to "know." They're often the most spiritually bankrupt people, because they never let go;…

— George Harrison

“We have this extraordinary conceit in the West that while we've been hard at work in the creation of technological wizardry and innovation, somehow…

— Edmund Wade Davis

“Where are we as a modern civilization if our educational institutions conspire to train only a fraction of our capacities? and if this is…

— Eugene Taylor

Where intellectuals have played a role in history, it has not been so much by whispering words of advice into the ears of political…

— Thomas Sowell

The trouble with Westerners is that they want to witness their own enlightenment.

— Chogyam Trungpa

In a world where ideas and ideals flow freely, we want what everybody else in an advanced society seems to have: a say in…

— Joshua Wong