11 Quotes About Intellectual

Most of our lives we spend waiting for something to happen. It’s only when we stop and think that we realize that what has been happening is just waiting for us to get our act together. These four intellectual quotes about life will get you thinking about the truth of things, and how you might be able to make a difference.

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An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts. Albert Camus
Even intellectuals should have learned by now that objective rationality...
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Even intellectuals should have learned by now that objective rationality is not the default position of the human mind, much less the bedrock of human affairs. Roy Blount Jr.
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Those intellectuals are our natural enemies; the only kind who are worth anything are the musicians and the dancers: they don’t insult anybody with their performances, and they neither sing nor dance politics. So I like them; but don’t let me hear a word about the rest Alfred De Vigny
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In the most secret heart of every intellectual ... there lies hidden ... the hope of power, the desire to bring his ideas to reality by imposing them on his fellow man. Lionel Trilling
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Intellect is not wisdom. Thomas Sowell
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The man of action has the present, but the thinker controls the future. Unknown
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One minute. You know nothing about him. He probably has his own joys and interests- wife, children, snug little home. That's where we practical fellows'- he smiled-'are more tolerant than you intellectuals. We live and let live, and assume that things are jogging on fairly well elsewhere, and that the ordinary plain man may be trusted to look after his own affairs. E.m. Forster
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Intellectuals are rarely successful as leaders. They are so trapped in their ideals that they cannot venture out in the real world to win and lead. Awdhesh Singh
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And secretly I fell prey to the one of the besetting sins of western intellectuals, which normally I abhor: I began to experience envy of suffering, that profoundly dishonest emotion which derives from the foolish notion that only the oppressed can achieve righteousness or - more importantly - write anything profound. Theodore Dalrymple
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I grew up in an atmosphere tinged with militarism, and afterwards I spent five boring years within the sound of bugles. To this day it gives me a faint feeling of sacrilege not to stand to attention during ‘God save the King’. That is childish, of course, but I would sooner have had that kind of upbringing than be like the left-wing intellectuals who are so ‘enlightened’ that they cannot understand the most ordinary emotions. George Orwell