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Intellectuals are too sentimental for me. -- Margaret Anderson
Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them. -- Albert Einstein
Intellectuals are good at seeing the big picture. But they are not so good at process. -- Michael Ignatieff
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
Intellectuals are cynical and cynics have never built a cathedral. -- Henry A. Kissinger
Intellectuals are hindered on the way to being, by their narcissism. -- Erich Fromm
Intellectuals would be much more accepted now than in the '40s -- Parker Stevenson
Intellectuals are people who go to study things other people do naturally. -- Bill Cosby
Intellectuals have opinions on subjects they just heard about five minutes ago. -- Mason Cooley
Intellectuals never sound more foolish than when posing as the last civilised man. -- Christopher Hitchens
Intellectuals cannot be good revolutionaries; they are just good enough to be assassins. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
Intellectuals say simple things in difficult ways. Artists say difficult things in simple ways. -- Charles Bukowski
Intellectuals should never marry; they won't enjoy it; and besides, they should not reproduce themselves. -- Don Herold
Intellectuals who live in Hungary, or who wish to work or lecture there, are extremely circumspect in their criticism. -- Hari Kunzru
Intellectuals (in the standard sense of the term, not [ Edward] Said's prescriptive sense) are the people who write history. -- Noam Chomsky
Intellectuals cannot tolerate the chance event, the unintelligible: they have a nostalgia for the absolute, for a universally comprehensive scheme. -- Raymond Aron
Intellectuals ought to study the past not for the pleasure they find in so doing, but to derive lessons from it. -- Cheikh Anta Diop
Intellectuals incline to be individualists, or even independents, are not team conscious and tend to regard obedience as a surrender of personality. -- Harold Nicolson
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
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
Intellectuals may like to think of themselves as people who "speak truth to power" but too often they are people who speak lies to gain power. -- Thomas Sowell
Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price. -- Tahar Ben Jelloun
Language corresponds only to itself. Intellectuals suffer from that. And once you begin to question language, you cannot stop at studying linguistics. Analytical philosophy becomes insufficient, artificial grammar becomes insufficient. -- Martin Walser
Intellectuals tend to be arrogant. Intelligence, like money, is a good servant but a bad master. When practicing pranayama, the yogi [makes] himself humble and without pride in his intellectual attainments. -- B.K.S. Iyengar
Intellectuals of the categories happen to enjoy unusual privilege, unique in history, I suppose. It's easy enough to find ugly illustrations of repression, malice, dishonesty, marginalization and exclusion in the academic world. -- Noam Chomsky
Intellectuals of [Albert] Camus' age who had previously disliked him now appreciate him. And at that point we come back to literature, and it's agreed that he was always a great writer. -- Catherine Camus
I like people who love books and movies and art and want to talk about it all the time, because that's basically what I want to talk about. Intellectuals that are funny. -- Greta Gerwig
Intellectuals that approach me, only serve to feeding my intellectualism. Imaginists that approach me, only serve to enhancing my Imaginism. It's impossible to feed my I, for I am the Greatest 'I AM. -- Lionel Suggs
Intellectuals are judged not by their morals, but by the quality of their ideas, which are rarely reducible to simple verdicts of truth or falsity, if only because banalities are by definition accurate. -- Perry Anderson
Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in 19th-century France and England, or 20th-century Russia and America. -- Lillian Hellman
Intellectuals ... advertise their superiority to political practice but are absolutely in its thrall. ... It is no accident that Marxist theory and practice use the intellectuals as tools and keep them in brutal subservience. -- Allan Bloom
Intellectuals, academics, writers and poets were an important force in the early groups of volunteers. They had the means to get to Spain and were accustomed to travelling, whereas very few workers had left British shores. -- William Alexander
Intellectuals, academics, writers and poets were an important force in the early groups of volunteers. They had the means to get to Spain and were accustomed to travelling, whereas very few workers had left British shores. -- William Alexander
When I find a woman attractive, I have nothing at all to say. I simply watch her smile. Intellectuals take apart her face in order to explain it bit by bit, but they no longer see the smile. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Dissident intellectuals aren't all beautiful. -- Noam Chomsky
Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you. -- Theodor Adorno
The respected intellectuals are those who conform and serve power interests. -- Noam Chomsky
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way. -- Marcel Proust
There are clearly many Egyptian free-thinkers and intellectuals - lots of wonderful Egyptian artists and architects and scientists. -- Richard Engel
It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum. -- Sam Harris
We, as conservative intellectuals, should not be in the business of making excuses for bad parliamentary decisions by Republican leaders in Congress. -- David Frum
After learning the language and culture of the Chinese people, these Jesuits began to establish contacts with the young intellectuals of the country. -- Hu Shih
I realised quite early on that, although I wasn't trying to make a career speciality of it, I was playing slightly asexual, sociopathic intellectuals. -- Benedict Cumberbatch
I don't think many people understand what racism is. The intellectuals use it like toilet paper; it's something they can use. It's not something they live. -- Mark Fuhrman
There is a long dishonourable tradition of western intellectuals who have been duped by Moscow. The list includes Bernard Shaw, the Webbs, H. G. Wells, and Andre Gide. -- Luke Harding
Out-of-step intellectuals like Noam Chomsky and the deceased Edward Said have often been dismissed as crazy extremists, 'anti-American,' and in Mr. Said's case even, absurdly, as apologists for Palestinian 'terrorism.' -- Salman Rushdie
Visit a typical science classroom and you will discover far more than empirical facts being taught. The dominant worldview among scientific intellectuals is evolutionary naturalism, which holds that humans are essentially biochemical machines. -- Nancy Pearcey
I don't like intellectuals, or, at least, people who call themselves that way, because I am under the impression that there is always something condescending in their demeanour, and I don't like condescending people. -- Carine Roitfeld
Venezuelan interests are to be defended by Venezuela. The U.S. should defend the interests of the U.S. Where are the U.S. people, where are the intellectuals, who could put limits on their government? -- Hugo Chavez
It is ironic that the United States should have been founded by intellectuals, for throughout most of our political history, the intellectual has been for the most part either an outsider, a servant or a scapegoat. -- Richard Hofstadter
But the Spain which emerged around 1960, beginning with its economic miracle, created by the invasion of tourists, can no longer result in impassioned dedication on the part of its intellectuals, and even less on the part of foreign intellectuals. -- Juan Goytisolo
We've no use for intellectuals in this outfit. What we need is chimpanzees. Let me give you a word of advice: never say a word to us about being intelligent. We will think for you, my friend. Don't forget it. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
The left-wing thinkers and intellectuals have been more misogynist with me than the army. They can't accept that a young woman is able to think, and they underestimate the intellectual work and study I might have done. They ask who is the man behind me. -- Maria de Medeiros
All I knew about Ethiopia was from a few records that I like, as well as what I read about the famine. But you get there and it's another world. It's filled with art and music and poetry and intellectuals and writers - all kinds of people. -- Flea
What the British seem to like are television historians and naturalists, not public intellectuals. You can't help feeling that's because one supplies narrative and the other supplies facts, and the British are traditionally empiricists so they/we have a resistance to theory and to theoreticians playing too prominent a role in public life. -- Will Self
I think public intellectuals have a responsibility - to be self-critical on the one hand, to do serious, nuanced work rigorously executed; but to also be able to get off those perches and out of those ivory towers and speak to the real people who make decisions; to speak truth to power and the powerless with lucidity and eloquence. -- Michael Eric Dyson
Beekeeping is farming for intellectuals. -- Sue Hubbell
Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals. -- Edmund Wilson
Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals. -- Clare Boothe Luce
Revolution is the opium of the intellectuals. -- Jerzy Peterkiewicz
The so-called intellectuals don't like my films. -- Rohit Shetty
Sometimes the truth is too simple for intellectuals. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
You don't reason with intellectuals. You shoot them. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
I like being surrounded by students and intellectuals. -- Louis Garrel
We are all so to speak intellectuals about something. -- Randall Jarrell
Designers may be the true intellectuals of the future. -- Paola Antonelli
For intellectuals, everyone's mind is closed but their own. -- Anthony Daniels
Unrecognized alcoholism is the ruling pathology among writers and intellectuals. -- Diana Trilling
Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them. -- George Orwell
The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works. -- Jacques Barzun
There are some things only intellectuals are crazy enough to believe. -- George Orwell
There is a gulf between the Arab peoples and Arab intellectuals. -- Tahar Ben Jelloun
A society without intellectuals is like a body without a head -- Ayn Rand
When the train of history hits a curve, the intellectuals fall off. -- Karl Marx
It's the job of intellectuals and writers to cast doubt on perfection. -- Antonio Tabucchi
Telly never has any smart, amusing intellectuals living on a council estate. -- Caitlin Moran
Since the 18th century, many Western intellectuals have predicted religion's imminent demise. -- Jonathan Sacks
Good politicians need not be intellectuals, but they should have intellectual lives. -- Gary Gutting
Trendy intellectuals always take action for every cause that's been in fashion. -- Ray Davies
The best revenge you can have on intellectuals is to be madly happy. -- Albert Camus
It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies. -- Noam Chomsky
Screaming racism is the last refuge of leftist intellectuals who've completely lost their mojo. -- Neal Boortz
Unlike the masses, intellectuals have a taste for rationality and an interest in facts. -- Aldous Huxley
The intellectuals and the young, booted and spurred, feel themselves born to ride us. -- Eric Hoffer
Isaiah Berlin described the intellectuals of [Mikhail] Bakunin's "Red bureaucracy" as a "secular priesthood. -- Noam Chomsky
Real intellectuals like to escape once in a while from their world of intellect. -- Desi Arnaz
We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense. -- Samuel Fuller
We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense -- Samuel Fuller
All men are intellectuals, but not all men have in society the function of intellectuals -- Antonio Gramsci
Well, the capacity of French intellectuals to understand a Texan way of thinking is finite. -- Henry A. Kissinger
Most intellectuals today have a phobia of any explanation of the mind that invokes genetics. -- Steven Pinker
We mustn't forget how quickly the visions of genius become the canned goods of intellectuals. -- Saul Bellow
I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
No modern nation has ever constructed a foreign policy that was acceptable to its intellectuals -- Irving Kristol
England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality. -- George Orwell
Everyone enjoys stories of double lives and secret identities. Children have Superman; intellectuals have Wallace Stevens. -- Dana Gioia
Revolution is glorified by intellectuals, apotheosized by poets, sanctified by visionaries, and bled white by politicians. -- Ameen Rihani
Journalists are usually quite jealous people, especially of intellectuals who are supposed to be in fashion. -- Vivienne Westwood
There are some ideas so stupid that only intellectuals can believe in them, particularly left-wing intellectuals. -- Poul Anderson
The first socialists were the intellectuals; they, and not the masses, are the backbone of Socialism. -- Ludwig von Mises
The trouble with me is, I belong to a vanishing race. I'm one of the intellectuals. -- Robert E. Sherwood
Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed. -- Manuel Puig
There is no reasonable doubt that existentialism will soon become the predominant philosophical current among bourgeois intellectuals." (1949) -- Gyorgy Lukacs
The job of intellectuals is to come up with ideas, and all we've been producing is footnotes. -- Theodore White
Along with all else, Sandman is a comic strip for intellectuals, and I say it's about time. -- Norman Mailer
A nation of intellectuals, a nation of thugs/Jesus is hate, a nation of Satan is love! -- Vinnie Paz
Not even anthropologists or intellectuals, no matter how many books they have, can find out all our secrets. -- Rigoberta Menchu
You're a genius! And the proof is that both common people and intellectuals find your work completely incoherent. -- Woody Allen
Professional intellectuals are the voice of a culture and are, therefore, its leaders, its integrators and its bodyguards. -- Ayn Rand
The market-driven spectacle of war demands a culture of conformity, quiet intellectuals and a largely passive republic of consumers. -- Henry Giroux
French intellectuals are mostly petit bourgeois, and it's hard to say whether that makes [Albert] Camus' work more valuable. -- Catherine Camus
States have always needed intellectuals to con the public into believing that its rule is wise, good, and inevitable -- Murray Rothbard
I know of people whose actions and words I admire and respect. Some are called "intellectuals," some are not. -- Noam Chomsky
With intellectuals, moral thought is often less a tonic that quickens ethical action than a narcotic that deadens it. -- Louis Kronenberger
The difference between western and eastern intellectuals is that the former have not been kicked in the ass enough. -- Witold Gombrowicz
I think that intellectuals who end up in hell will have to read page proofs and check indexes there. -- Edward Teller
It is important that the Muslim leaders, scholars, and intellectuals are much more vocal and explain what Islam is. -- Tariq Ramadan
I think Black intellectuals see too deeply. That's the problem. It's a cause of anxiety, because we see things differently. -- Ishmael Reed
The same group of New York pseudo-intellectuals who've put down prayer are the same ones who put down L.A. -- Marianne Williamson
It is a hard thing for intellectuals to acknowledge benefits from their rich moral inferiors who never so intended it. -- Victor Davis Hanson

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