338 Quotes About Intellectual

Precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity as to those mysterious powers assumed by others.

These esoteric, intellectual debates-I want them to come to New Jersey and sit across from the widows and the orphans and have that conversation,

I have no nationality - the best possible status for an intellectual.

When your IQ rises to 28, sell.

There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind.

For original ideas to come about, you have to let them percolate under the level of consciousness in a place where we have no way to make them obey our own desires or our own direction. Their random combinations are driven by forces we don't know about.

Moral cowardice and intellectual corruption are the natural concomitants of unchallenged privilege.

The intellectual world is deeply conformist... We talk a lot about the crimes of others. When it comes to our own crimes, we are nationalists in the Orwellian sense.

You don't get to be a respected intellectual by uttering truisms in monosyllables.