(246 quotes found)
“A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.”
Spiro T. Agnew
“In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.”
John Stuart Mill
“An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.”
Charles Bukowski
“Anxiety is the essential condition of intellectual and artistic creation”
Charles Frankel
“One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute”
William Lyon Phelps
“Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.”
Walter Gropius
“No modern nation has ever constructed a foreign policy that was acceptable to its intellectuals”
Irving Kristol
“Do you really have to be the ice queen intellectual or the slut whore? Isn't there some way to be both?”
Susan Sarandon
“Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals with no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff.”
Clare Boothe Luce
“We've no use for intellectuals in this outfit. What we need is chimpanzees. Let me give you a word of advice: never say a word to us about being intelligent. We will think for you, my friend. Don't forget it.”
Louis Ferdinand Celine
