Quotes on Intellectuals

Intellectuals are too sentimental for me.

Author: Margaret Anderson

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

Author: Albert Einstein

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.

Author: Brad Holland

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

Author: Tahar Jelloun

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.

Author: Tahar Jelloun

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.

Author: Tahar Jelloun

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

Author: John McCarthy

I'm not one of those James Joyce intellectuals who can stand back and look at the whole edifice... It was a slow process for me to just crawl out of it, like a snake leaving his skin behind.

Author: Frank McCourt

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

Author: Harry Oppenheimer

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

Author: Marcel Proust

Intellectuals would be much more accepted now than in the '40s.

Author: Parker Stevenson

Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.

Author: Edmund Wilson