Intellectuals quotes

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◆ Weak people believe in revenge. Strong people believe in forgiving. And Intelligent people believe in ignoring!

- Simi Ngr100

◆ Intellectualism came very late to America. That's why Americans are so proud of it. I found very few real intellectuals in America. But there are so many pseudo-intellectuals.

- Douglas Sirk99

◆ The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the disenchantment of the world.

- Max Weber99

◆ Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

- Mary Wollstonecraft99

◆ Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.

- Edmund Wilson99

◆ We really want to see how the idea of an intellectual action movie is received by the world.

- Larry Wachowski99

◆ Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second.

- Maurice Ravel99

◆ There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side.

- Vaclav Havel99

◆ Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.

- Samuel Butler99

◆ An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

- Dwight D Eisenhower99

◆ An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.

- Spiro T Agnew99

◆ Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic.

- Alexis Carrel99

◆ It is amazing how many of those who consider themselves thinking people respond automatically to words the way Pavlov's dog was conditioned to respond to certain sounds.

- Thomas Sowell99

◆ To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.

- Robert Louis Stevenson99

◆ An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.

- Aldous Huxley99