Intellectuals Quotes

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

The British are supposed to be particularly averse to intellectuals, a prejudice closely bound up with their dislike of foreigners. Indeed, one important source of this Anglo-Saxon distaste for highbrows and eggheads was the French revolution, which was seen as an attempt to reconstruct society on the basis of abstract rational principles.

I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.

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