338 Quotes About Intellectual

The intellectual as ideologist, having had a leading role in purveying to the country each innovation and having frequently hastened the country into the acceptance of change, is naturally felt to have played an important part in breaking the mold in which America was cast and in consequence he gets more than his share of the blame.

The usual duty of the "intellectual" is to argue for complexity and to insist that phenomena in the world of ideas should not be sloganized or reduced to easily repeated formulae

we all are the part of illusion society, those who know, they know how to come out

An intellectual is a person who acquired the knowledge and knows where and how to use it.

It may be laid down as a general rule that if a man begins to sing, no one will take notice of this except his fellow human being. This is true even if his song is surpassingly beautiful. Other men may be in raptures at this skill, but the rest of creation is, by and large, unmoved.

يجب أن يتخلى المثقف عن لامبالاته بالشأن العام وحصر اهتماماته بشؤونه الخاصة وأوضاعه المعيشية والمهنية الضيقة. يجب أن يخرج من قوقعته وينزل من برجه العاجي . وما لم يتحسس المثقف معاناة شعبنا وخطورة المرحلة التي تمر بها قضية وطنه تبقى ثقافته محدوة النفع بل يبقى هو عنصرا معطلا في مجتمعه.

The wisdom of thought beyond barriers is life changing.

There has been no major revolution in modern history without intellectuals; conversely there has been no major counterrevolutionary movement without intellectuals. Intellectuals have been the fathers and mothers of movements, and of course sons and daughters, even nephews and nieces.

My dear fellow, I am prepared to prove anything.