best quotations about
Intellectuals |
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Quotations
 | Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it. — Thomas Sowell, 1930 -, American political thinker 24 likes |
 | You don't reason with intellectuals. You shoot them. — Napoleon, 1769-1821, French Emperor 21 likes |
 | Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them. — Albert Einstein, 1879-1955, German-Jewish physicist 16 likes |
 | Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them. — George Orwell, 1903-1950, British writer 14 likes |
 | An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex. — Aldοus Huxley, 1894-1963, English writer 8 likes |
 | My favorite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence'. — Arthur Clarke, 1917-2008, British Sci-Fi writer 6 likes |
 | An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows. — Dwight Eisenhower, 1890-1969, American general & President 6 likes |
 | Poetry is for an intelligent man or a madman. — Aristotle, 384-322 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 5 likes |
 | The man was such an intellectual he was of almost no use. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, 1742-1799, German author of maxims 5 likes |
 | Intellectuals are always willing to question a truth, but rarely a mistake. — André Frossard, 1915-1995, French politician & essayist 5 likes |
 | 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 4 likes |
 | Beware of thinkers whose minds function only when they are fueled by a quotation. — Emile M. Cioran, 1911-1995, French-Romanian philosopher 4 likes |
| England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality. — George Orwell, 1903-1950, British writer 3 likes |
 | Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way. — Marcel Proust, 1871-1922, French writer 3 likes |
 | I love the intellectual type. They know everything and suspect nothing. — Zsa Zsa Gabor, 1917-2016, Hungarian-American actress 2 likes |
 | If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1884, American philosopher 2 likes |
 | The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends. — Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900, German philosopher 2 likes |
 | All 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 2 likes |
| Some people are so heavenly minded, that they are no earthly good. |
| First 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. |
| The 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. |
 | Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you. |
 | It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies. — Noam Chomsky, 1928-, American linguist, philosopher, social activist |
 | To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life. |
 | Reading … is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual. |
 | Intellectuals are cynical and cynics have never built a cathedral. |
| Intellectual is someone who is out to explain to others what he himself has not understood. |
 | Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art. — Susan Sontag, 1933-2004, American writer, critic, activist |
 | An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way. |
 | Marxism and psychoanalysis have been the two traps of the modern intelligence. |
| One of the worst intellectual disasters is found in the appropriation of scientific concepts and vocabulary by mediocre intelligences. |
Ancient Greek
 | Say something a little less educated and more apprehensible. Αμαθέστερον πως ειπέ και σαφέστερον. — Aristophanes, 445-386 BC, Ancient Greek comic playwright ‐ Frogs 3 likes |
Movie Quotes
 | He'll be a typical intellectual, disagreeable and impotent. — from the film The Conformist (1970) 4 likes |
