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Thomas SowellSocialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

—  Thomas Sowell, 1930 -, American political thinker

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NapoleonYou don't reason with intellectuals. You shoot them.

—  Napoleon, 1769-1821, French Emperor

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Albert EinsteinIntellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

—  Albert Einstein, 1879-1955, German-Jewish physicist

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George OrwellSome ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.

—  George Orwell, 1903-1950, British writer

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Aldοus HuxleyAn intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.

—  Aldοus Huxley, 1894-1963, English writer

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Arthur ClarkeMy favorite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence'.

—  Arthur Clarke, 1917-2008, British Sci-Fi writer

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Dwight EisenhowerAn intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

—  Dwight Eisenhower, 1890-1969, American general & President

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AristotlePoetry is for an intelligent man or a madman.

—  Aristotle, 384-322 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher

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Georg Christoph LichtenbergThe man was such an intellectual he was of almost no use.

—  Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, 1742-1799, German author of maxims

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André FrossardIntellectuals are always willing to question a truth, but rarely a mistake.

—  André Frossard, 1915-1995, French politician & essayist

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Oliver W. Holmes Sr.The world’s great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.

—  Oliver W. Holmes Sr., 1809-1894, American writer

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Emile M. CioranBeware of thinkers whose minds function only when they are fueled by a quotation.

—  Emile M. Cioran, 1911-1995, French-Romanian philosopher

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George OrwellEngland is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality.

—  George Orwell, 1903-1950, British writer

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Marcel ProustLike many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.

—  Marcel Proust, 1871-1922, French writer

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Zsa Zsa GaborI love the intellectual type. They know everything and suspect nothing.

—  Zsa Zsa Gabor, 1917-2016, Hungarian-American actress

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Ralph Waldo EmersonIf we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

—  Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1884, American philosopher

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Friedrich NietzscheThe man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

—  Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900, German philosopher

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Thomas HobbesAll generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called “Facts”. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.

—  Thomas Hobbes, 1588-1679, English philosopher

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Oliver W. Holmes Sr.Some people are so heavenly minded, that they are no earthly good.

—  Oliver W. Holmes Sr., 1809-1894, American writer

Aldοus HuxleyFirst Shakespeare sonnets seem meaningless; first Bach fugues, a bore; first differential equations, sheer torture. But training changes the nature of our spiritual experiences. In due course, contact with an obscurely beautiful poem, an elaborate piece of counterpoint or of mathematical reasoning, causes us to feel direct intuitions of beauty and significance.

—  Aldοus Huxley, 1894-1963, English writer

Aldοus HuxleyThe course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred.

—  Aldοus Huxley, 1894-1963, English writer

Theodore AdornoAdvice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

—  Theodore Adorno, 1903-1969, German philosopher

Noam ChomskyIt is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies.

—  Noam Chomsky, 1928-, American linguist, philosopher, social activist

Robert Louis StevensonTo be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.

—  Robert Louis Stevenson, 1850-1894, Scottish writer

Jorge Luis BorgesReading … is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.

—  Jorge Luis Borges, 1899-1986, Argentine writer

Henry KissingerIntellectuals are cynical and cynics have never built a cathedral.

—  Henry Kissinger, 1923-2023, American politician

André FrossardIntellectual is someone who is out to explain to others what he himself has not understood.

—  André Frossard, 1915-1995, French politician & essayist

Susan SontagInterpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.

—  Susan Sontag, 1933-2004, American writer, critic, activist

Charles BukowskiAn intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

—  Charles Bukowski, 1920-1994, American writer

Nicolas Gomez DavilaMarxism and psychoanalysis have been the two traps of the modern intelligence.

—  Nicolas Gomez Davila, 1913-1994, Colombian writer

Nicolas Gomez DavilaOne of the worst intellectual disasters is found in the appropriation of scientific concepts and vocabulary by mediocre intelligences.

—  Nicolas Gomez Davila, 1913-1994, Colombian writer

Ancient Greek

AristophanesSay something a little less educated and more apprehensible.

Αμαθέστερον πως ειπέ και σαφέστερον.

—  Aristophanes, 445-386 BC, Ancient Greek comic playwright ‐ Frogs

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Movie Quotes

The Conformist (1970)He'll be a typical intellectual, disagreeable and impotent.

—  from the film The Conformist (1970)

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