I Quotes
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“Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.”
Source: American Power and the New Mandarins
“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.”
Source: Spectrum: From Right to Left in the World of Ideas
“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.”
“Intellectuals are people who go to study things other people do naturally.”
“Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in nineteenth-century France and England, or twentieth-century Russia and America.”
Source: An Unfinished Woman: A Memoir
“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.”
“Intellectuals cannot be good revolutionaries; they are just good enough to be assassins.”
“Intellectuals cannot tolerate the chance event, the unintelligible: they have a nostalgia for the absolute, for a universally comprehensive scheme.”
“Intellectuals have opinions on subjects they just heard about five minutes ago.”
“Intellectuals in all three regions called for the creation of a high-culture tongue that would be capable of functioning in all ways that English and French are wont to do. It would be more learned and, at the same time, more all-embracing. On the agenda were the following: lexical enrichment of the vernacular; a bridging of the dialects and the attainment of a form of linguistic unity by adopting a uniform, unified 'rational' orthography; the creation of scholarly, standardized dictionaries and grammars; and use of language as an arm in the struggle for cultural and, if possible, political autonomy.”
Source: Minority Literatures and Modernism: Scots, Breton, and Occitan, 1920 - 1990
“Intellectuals love Jefferson and hate markets, and intellectuals write most of the books. Intellectuals often think that they should, for the benefit of mankind, act as fiduciaries for the clods who don't have to be intellectuals, and I suspect that has to do with [why historians love Jefferson and not Hamilton, even though Hamilton's vision of America's commercial future was vastly more accurate than Jefferson's].”
“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.”
“Intellectuals never sound more foolish than when posing as the last civilised man.”
Source: Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere
“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.”
“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.”
“Intellectuals ought to study the past not for the pleasure they find in so doing, but to derive lessons from it.”
Source: Cheikh Anta Diop: an African scientist : an axiomatic overview of his teachings and thoughts
“Intellectuals ponder, philosophize, interpret, and all this is essential to our shared experience, however, to feel the warmth of what lays at our feet within all that can be felt by the heart, is in an instant more powerful than mere words, we need to feel the words, capture the essence of what we see, and revel in the tastes of nature, and let ourselves allow our hearts to sing out loud, wild, and free.”
“Intellectuals range through the finest gradations of kind and quality: from those who are merely educated neurotics, usually with strong hidden reactionary tendencies, through mediocrities of all kinds, to men of real brains and sensibility, more or less stiffened into various respectabilities or substitutes for respectability. The number of Ignorant Specialists is large. The number of hysterics and compulsives is also large.”
Source: A poet's prose: selected writings of Louise Bogan : with the uncollected poems
“Intellectuals resist faith longer because they can: where ordinary people are helpless before the light, intellectuals are clever enough to spin webs of darkness around their minds and hide in them. That's why only Ph.D.s believe any of the 100 most absurd ideas in the world such as Absolute Relativism, or the Objective Truth of Subjectivism, of the Meaningfulness of Meaninglessness and the Meaninglessness of Meaning, which is the best definition of Deconstructionism I know.”
“Intellectuals say simple things in difficult ways. Artists say difficult things in simple ways.”
“Intellectuals should never marry; they won't enjoy it; and besides, they should not reproduce themselves.”
Source: Strange Bedfellows: My Crazy-quilt Memoirs, Life-maxims and What-not
“Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Intellectuals would be much more accepted now than in the '40s”
“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.”
“Intelligence abounds in the world, what is needed is more kindness, love, and compassion.”
“Intelligence activity defines the national interest laws much more sharply. There are no grey areas here. Intelligence wars are fought differently.”
Source: The Unending Game: A Former R&AW Chief’s Insights into Espionage
“Intelligence Agencies are such criminals who have the right to commit crimes.”
“Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior.”
“Intelligence alone can't make a good writer and style alone can't make a good writer - that is, not a really important or significant writer - but the two things together make a really good writer.”
“Intelligence alone does not get us where we need to go or even necessarily where we want to go. For that, the human creature must exercise harder-won capacities of wisdom, and wise action.”
“Intelligence alone is not courage, we often see that the most intelligent people are irresolute. Since in the rush of events a man is governed by feelings rather than by thought, the intellect needs to arouse the quality of courage, which then supports and sustains it in action.”
Source: On War
“Intelligence alone is not nearly enough when it comes to acting wisely.”
Source: Crime and Punishment
“Intelligence always had a pornographic influence on me.”
Source: The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou
“Intelligence and capability are not enough. There must be the joy of doing something beautiful.”
“Intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn.”
Source: Flowers for Algernon
“Intelligence and genius”
“Intelligence and proper education will give you independence of spirit.”
“Intelligence and skill can only function at the peak of their capacity when the body is healthy and strong.”
“Intelligence and stupidity can only be measured by results alone, like tossing a coin.”
“Intelligence and the spirit of adventure can be combined to create new energies, and out of these energies may come exciting and rewarding new prospects.”
“Intelligence and war are games, perhaps the only meaningful games left. If any player becomes too proficient, the game is threatened with termination.”
Source: The Adding Machine: Selected Essays
“Intelligence and wisdom are certainly compatible, however they are rarely seen in each other’s company.”
“Intelligence arouses fear and respect, the lack of it keeps one on the narrow minded road of disrespect, stupidity and inferiority complex.”
“Intelligence augmentation decreases the need for specialization and increases participatory complexity.”
“Intelligence becomes an asset when some useful order is created out of free-floating brainpower.”
Source: Intellectual Capital: The new wealth of organization
“Intelligence can be used to manipulate.”
“Intelligence can get you from A to B, but curiosity will get you through infinity.”
Source: Boldly Comes Justice: Sentient Not Silent
“Intelligence can't be insulted.”