Action Quote by Thomas Sowell

The way in which a certain kind of political idealism has been discredited and scorned makes the danger not that intellectuals keep on making…

— Susan Sontag

Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.

— Noam Chomsky

I think such an inquiry will reveal a rather different picture: namely, it will reveal a very strong tendency for the intellectuals who are…

— Noam Chomsky

We are all so to speak intellectuals about something.

— Randall Jarrell

There's a flip side to having prominent public intellectuals, which is that they start meddling in politics and often with quite disastrous results.

— Will Self

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

— Aldous Huxley

“Intellectuals are the kind of people who demand evidence and are shocked by logical inconsistencies and fallacies. They regard oversimplification as the original sin…

— Aldous Huxley

Intellectuals are real and actuals who speak first to bare open and bring fore the burning matters factual before others can speak up and…

— Anuj Somany

“In truth, the history of political thought is an end in itself, the highest peak of political education. The crowning achievement of political knowledge,…

— Robert Nandor Berki

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

— Erich Fromm

The respected intellectuals are those who conform and serve power interests.

— Noam Chomsky

ANYONE who studies the history of ideas should notice how much more often people on the political left, more so than others, denigrate and…

— Thomas Sowell