“I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up.”
Frank Lloyd Wright
“Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.”
Albert Einstein
“It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.”
Oscar Wilde
“Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.”
Chuck Palahniuk
“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’”
Isaac Asimov
“My pacifism is an instinctive feeling, a feeling that possesses me because the murder of men is disgusting. My attitude is not derived from any intellectual theory but is based on my deepest antipathy to every kind of cruelty and hatred.”
“Distinction between pseudo-intellectual and intellectual is in the lack of bases of pseudo-intellectual’s theses, presence of dogma and authority, and pseudo-intellectual’s playing on compound words.”
Ilkin Santak
