338 Quotes About Intellectual

For the French, an intellectual didn’t have to be responsible. That wasn’t his job.

Most Are Governed By Physical Laws, The True Wiseman, Intellectual & Genius Is Not Governed By Any Laws, Rather Guided By The Spirit!

I believe in prophetic speech . . . still. I believe in Cassandra, I believe in Electra and in the charming Antigone. . . . For me, they’re more alive than the [Institute for] Intellectual Cooperation and its choice group of old men.

I’m not conventional. I never was. I never will be. You may label me what you must. An intellect. A buffoon. A criminal. A derelict child. A rebel. A deviant. A genius. You may label me Mesias. You may label me Fox0r. You may label me Aaron or Ahlsocrazi. Whatever you must, may it be so. Labels will never influence my state of being.

Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.

All I know is that the hours are long... and constrain us to beguile them with proceedings which ... may at first sight seem reasonable, until they become a habit.

Teachers are the building blocks to the doors of success

Although the boy ha developed a superstition that each time he opened the book he would learn something important, he decided it was an unnecessary burden.

The only thing an intellectual can do is watch things blow up, from a safe distance, of course.