Intellectuals Quotes


Where instinct fails, intellect must venture. - Jim Butcher



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



When I stayed with a bunch of herding girls-young intellectuals sent down to herd military horses-they taught me how to take warm baths. - Joan Chen



What greater prestige can a man like me (not too gifted, but very understanding) have than to have taken a cheap, shoddy and utterly lost kind of writing, and have made of it something that intellectuals claw each other about? - Raymond Chandler



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



We, as conservative intellectuals, should not be in the business of making excuses for bad parliamentary decisions by Republican leaders in Congress. - David Frum



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



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. - Tahar Ben Jelloun



We had many intellectuals and industry people who looked down on us, as if it were beneath them to even watch us. Nowadays, those comparisons aren't made. - Dirk Benedict



We forget that us being academics, that we should also be intellectuals. We should be aware of the issues so that we can make changes in the world for the better. - Larry Long



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