Intellectual Quotes
A curated collection of the best quotes about Intellectual.
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“Intelligence”
“Academic careerism”
“Anti-intellectualism”
“Intellectuals are cynical and cynics have never built a cathedral.”
“The man of action has the present, but the thinker controls the future.”
“A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence.”
“He's not an intellectual. Intellectuals start all the trouble in the world.”
“There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side.”
“Most intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the same.”
“An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.”
“The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read,
With loads of learned lumber in his head.”
“He is of the intelligentsia (which means he has been educated beyond his intelligence).”
“Unlike the masses, intellectuals have a taste for rationality and an interest in facts.”
“No people has ever despised and distrusted the intellect and intellectuals more than the British.”
“Few of the great tragedies of history were created by the village idiot, and many by the village genius.”
“Most people are not intellectuals — a fact that intellectuals have terrible trouble coming to terms with.”
“Well, I suppose we have to have young intellectuals, if we’re ever to survive to be middle-aged philosophers.”
“Wiktionary: Intellectual”
“The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.”
“A learned coxcomb dyeth his mistakes in so much a deeper colour: a wrong kind of learning serveth only to embroider his errors.”