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Intellectuals are cynical and cynics have never built a cathedral.
— Henry A. Kissinger
No modern nation has ever constructed a foreign policy that was acceptable to its intellectuals
— Irving Kristol
Revolutionary intellectuals have the historic mission of inventing the vocabulary and the themes for the next tyranny.
— Nicolas Gomez Davila
The common people, on the whole, are still living in the world of absolute good and evil from which the intellectuals have long since escaped.
— George Orwell
I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.
— Randall Jarrell
States have always needed intellectuals to con the public into believing that its rule is wise, good, and inevitable
— Murray Rothbard
As things stand the "intellectuals" only come out to lick the bones left over by the tyrant.
— Nilantha Ilangamuwa
There are clearly many Egyptian free-thinkers and intellectuals - lots of wonderful Egyptian artists and architects and scientists.
— Richard Engel
We are all so to speak intellectuals about something.
— Randall Jarrell
Certainly the party counts a considerable number of intellectuals among its members, but I am by no means disposed to apologise for that.
— Harry Oppenheimer
There are some ideas so stupid that only intellectuals can believe in them, particularly left-wing intellectuals.
— Poul Anderson
(I've had a hard time conveying to intellectuals the intellectual superiority of practice.)
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Among intellectuals who consider themselves 'scientific,' the phrase 'the nature of man' is apt to have the effect of a red flag on a bull.
— Murray Rothbard
My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework.
— Sara Paretsky
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
Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.
— Manuel Puig
I think Black intellectuals see too deeply. That's the problem. It's a cause of anxiety, because we see things differently.
— Ishmael Reed
Let's face it, most of us are not half as smart as we may sometimes think we areand for intellectuals, not one-tenth as smart. — Thomas Sowell
Most intellectuals today have a phobia of any explanation of the mind that invokes genetics.
— Steven Pinker
Americans on the average do not trust intellectuals, but they are cowed by power and stunned by celebrity.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
Because in the civilization of the spectacle, intellectuals are of interest only if they play the fashion game and become clowns.
— Mario Vargas-Llosa
It is certainly safe, in view of the movement to the right of intellectuals and political thinkers, to pronounce the brain death of socialism.
— Norman Tebbit
If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good
— Ezra Pound
Journalists are usually quite jealous people, especially of intellectuals who are supposed to be in fashion.
— Vivienne Westwood
If but a small part of Mme. Curie's strength of character and devotion were alive in Europe's intellectuals, Europe would face a brighter future.
— Albert Einstein
I like being surrounded by students and intellectuals.
— Louis Garrel
The People's' historic duty was to become a nameless herd and submit to the absolute control of a small pack of wily and vicious intellectuals.
— Charles Portis
Music has a role, fashion has a role, cinema has a role, intellectuals have a role, parliamentarians, politicians, diplomats all of it. — Riyad Mansour
Intellectuals are good at seeing the big picture. But they are not so good at process.
— Michael Ignatieff
Intellectuals never sound more foolish than when posing as the last civilised man.
— Christopher Hitchens
My favourite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence.[Sources and Acknowledgements: Chapter 19] — Arthur C. Clarke
We build cars, not intellectuals
— Jeffrey K. Liker
Intellect is not wisdom.
— Thomas Sowell
He was born to be alone, a damned cold intellectual, an egoist.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
I believe that everybody has the right to view his or her own body as a palette. However, I think intellectuals should at least try to be role models.
— Camille Paglia
Zealots are one-trick ponies. They love nothing so much as their own cause. Don't get in their way without expecting to be hurt.
— Patricia Briggs
Intellectuals would be much more accepted now than in the '40s.
— Parker Stevenson
Beekeeping is farming for intellectuals.
— Sue Hubbell
The so-called intellectuals don't like my films.
— Rohit Shetty
I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
Trotsky was so much an intellectual that in the final analysis, Marxism was not quite enough for him.
— Christopher Hitchens
I've seen what rational thought leads to. Dumbest people I ever met were intellectuals.
— Robert Ferrigno
Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.
— Theodor Adorno
England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality.
— George Orwell
Intellectuals are too sentimental for me.
— Margaret Anderson
I think that intellectuals who end up in hell will have to read page proofs and check indexes there.
— Edward Teller
Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.
— Thomas Sowell
All men are intellectuals, but not all men have in society the function of intellectuals
— Antonio Gramsci
Revolution is glorified by intellectuals, apotheosized by poets, sanctified by visionaries, and bled white by politicians.
— Ameen Rihani
Thank God I am not an intellectual! What a garbage of knowledge, what an unnecessary glossary of terms they have, those intellectuals!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Intellectuals incline to be individualists, or even independents, are not team conscious and tend to regard obedience as a surrender of personality.
— Harold Nicolson
Since the 18th century, many Western intellectuals have predicted religion's imminent demise.
— Jonathan Sacks
The job of intellectuals is to come up with ideas, and all we've been producing is footnotes.
— Theodore White
The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works.
— Jacques Barzun
But, of course only morons would ever think or speak of themselves as intellectuals. That's why they all look so sad.
— Ellen Glasgow
Sometimes the truth is too simple for intellectuals.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
Even in the most favourable periods for cultural development , Intellectuals tend to have uneasy relationship with the status quo.
— Frank Furedi
Like most intellectuals he is intensely stupid.
— Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos
Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.
— Albert Einstein
Ideas are not intellectuals' toys: ideas have consequences, for good and for ill, in what even intellectuals sometimes call "the real world".
— George Weigel
Intellectuals are rebels, not revolutionaries.
— Cesar Vallejo
Intellectuals should never marry; they won't enjoy it; and besides, they should not reproduce themselves.
— Don Herold
The first socialists were the intellectuals; they, and not the masses, are the backbone of Socialism.
— Ludwig Von Mises
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 evident that the State needs the intellectuals; it is not so evident why intellectuals need the State.
— Murray N. Rothbard
Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
— George Orwell
Not even anthropologists or intellectuals, no matter how many books they have, can find out all our secrets.
— Rigoberta Menchu
The difference between western and eastern intellectuals is that the former have not been kicked in the ass enough.
— Witold Gombrowicz
Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.
— Abdolkarim Soroush
Make sure you work at a place which gives you opportunities to learn, travel, explore, interact with intellectuals and new work skills.
— Abhishek Ratna
Being an intellectual among intellectuals means nothing. There must be more.
— Darnell Lamont Walker
Nothing appeals to intellectuals more than the feeling that they represent 'the people'. Nothing, as a rule, is further from the truth
— Paul Johnson
Poets and intellectuals ... are the ones the tyrants go after first.
— Frederick Smock