“Armchair intellectuals are the biggest liability of a democracy.”
Muhammed Haider
“Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.”
Albert Einstein
“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
“It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.”
Oscar Wilde
“Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.”
Chuck Palahniuk
“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
“Intellectuals, which go after crowd, has never been intellectuals. The intellectuals should either lead the crowd after themselves, or completely isolate themselves from the crowd.”