Intellectuals Quotes

My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework.

Jewish intellectuals contributed a great deal to insure that Europe became a continent of humanism, and it is with these humanist ideals that Europe must now intervene in the Middle East conflict.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

After learning the language and culture of the Chinese people, these Jesuits began to establish contacts with the young intellectuals of the country.

I believe that everybody has the right to view his or her own body as a palette. However, I think intellectuals should at least try to be role models.

I know I've got a degree. Why does that mean I have to spend my life with intellectuals? I've got a lifesaving certificate but I don't spend my evenings diving for a rubber brick with my pyjamas on.

It was generally believed that Catholics were not interested in arts and science graduate schools. They weren't going to be intellectuals. And so I put the theses to the test. And they all collapsed.

In the Arab world, there is no link between the cultural habits of peoples and the ways of thinking and creating of modern intellectuals. They are two separate worlds.

I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor.

We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without touching the bottom.

And with each day that passed, the gulf broadened and my isolation became more accentuated. In such a situation, the discovery that my experience was not unique, that it had also been that of other Spanish intellectuals, became very important for me.

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.

We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense.

Soccer riots kill at most tens. Intellectuals' ideological riots sometimes kill millions.

Certainly the party counts a considerable number of intellectuals among its members, but I am by no means disposed to apologise for that.

When you have a foreign invasion - in this case by the Indonesian army - writers, intellectuals, newspapers and magazines are the first targets of repression.

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.

Futurism: This was a movement of intellectuals who wanted to replace tradition with the modern world of machinery, speed, violence, and public relations. It proves that we should be careful what intellectuals wish for, because we might get it.

My wife and I, unlike many intellectuals, spent five years working on assembly lines. We came to fully understand the criticisms of the industrial age, in which you are an appendage of a machine that sets the pace.

I realised quite early on that, although I wasn't trying to make a career speciality of it, I was playing slightly asexual, sociopathic intellectuals.

Country and western is ignored by the intellectuals. They don't look at it as an art form. They think it's just somebody sitting on his couch singing about his life.

Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.

Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.

Most intellectuals today have a phobia of any explanation of the mind that invokes genetics.

We do not have many intellectuals who can speak out for us internationally. We have no writers who are recognized, respected and loved outside the Arab world.

Don't make art for other artists or for 'intellectuals', make art for people - and if you can touch just one person in a lifetime and make a difference - you have succeeded.

Many people have observed that truth is stranger than fiction. This has led some intellectuals to conclude that it's stranger than non-fiction as well.

There is a gulf between the Arab peoples and Arab intellectuals.

It is certainly safe, in view of the movement to the right of intellectuals and political thinkers, to pronounce the brain death of socialism.

It's the job of intellectuals and writers to cast doubt on perfection.