“An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.”
Charles Bukowski
“Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.”
Albert Einstein
“It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.”
Oscar Wilde
“Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way”
Marcel Proust
“Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.”
Chuck Palahniuk
“Anxiety is the essential condition of intellectual and artistic creation”
Charles Frankel
“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