(246 quotes found)
“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.”
Gerald Brenan
“To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.”
Dick Cavett
“Communism was the brain-child of German-Jewish intellectuals”
Pat Robertson
“There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than ''politicians'' think. We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them. Ideas do not rule the world. But it is because the world has ideas... that it is not passively ruled by those who are its leaders or those who would like to teach it, once and for all, what it must think.”
Michel Foucault
“It is ironic that the United States should have been founded by intellectuals, for throughout most of our political history, the intellectual has been for the most part either an outsider, a servant or a scapegoat.”
Richard Hofstadter
“Most intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the same.”
Wilhelm Reich
“Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals”
Edmund Wilson
“An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.”
Dan Rather
“Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing.”
Oscar Wilde
“An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.”
Aldous Huxley
