Top 640 Pseudo Intellectuals Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

States have always needed intellectuals to con the public into believing that its rule is wise, good, and inevitable

Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.

Intellectuals ought to study the past not for the pleasure they find in so doing, but to derive lessons from it.

[One task of intellectuals is] to break down the stereotypes and reductive categories that are . . . limiting to human thought and communication.

The difference between western and eastern intellectuals is that the former have not been kicked in the ass enough.

Intellectuals who live in Hungary, or who wish to work or lecture there, are extremely circumspect in their criticism.

Intellectuals cannot tolerate the chance event, the unintelligible: they have a nostalgia for the absolute, for a universally comprehensive scheme.

Well, the capacity of French intellectuals to understand a Texan way of thinking is finite.

It is certainly safe, in view of the movement to the right of intellectuals and political thinkers, to pronounce the brain death of socialism.

Some of our finest leaders were not intellectuals at all, and I admire them enormously because they weren't. Harry Truman wasn't.

When it comes to scientific matters the ready talkers simply run riot. There are a lot of pseudo-scientists who with a little technical jargon to spatter through their talk are always getting in the limelight... The less they know the surer they are about it.

Intellectuals have opinions on subjects they just heard about five minutes ago.

Everyone enjoys stories of double lives and secret identities. Children have Superman; intellectuals have Wallace Stevens.

The Pseudo-liberals monopolize the teaching jobs at many universities. Only men who agree with them are appointed as teachers and instructors of the social sciences, and only textbooks supporting their ideas are used.

I started to wonder, and felt relieved that there might be truth to the idea of intellectuals all being frauds. I knew that I certainly was.

Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.

When you have a foreign invasion - in this case by the Indonesian army - writers, intellectuals, newspapers and magazines are the first targets of repression.

In my view, aiming at simplicity and lucidity is a moral duty of all intellectuals: lack of clarity is a sin, and pretentiousness is a crime.

Face it, you hate every single boy on the face of the Earth!" "That's not TRUE, I just hate all these obnoxious, extroverted, pseudo-bohemian art-school losers

Since the 18th century, many Western intellectuals have predicted religion's imminent demise.

You're a genius! And the proof is that both common people and intellectuals find your work completely incoherent.

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.

You know, it's one thing about intellectuals, they prove that you can be absolutely brilliant and have no idea what's going on.

One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.

The intellectuals and the young, booted and spurred, feel themselves born to ride us.

Isaiah Berlin described the intellectuals of [Mikhail] Bakunin's "Red bureaucracy" as a "secular priesthood.

Thank God I am not an intellectual! What a garbage of knowledge, what an unnecessary glossary of terms they have, those intellectuals!

It is a hard thing for intellectuals to acknowledge benefits from their rich moral inferiors who never so intended it.

We mustn't forget how quickly the visions of genius become the canned goods of intellectuals.

Public intellectuals are often put in the position of having their words, no matter how off-the-cuff, treated as doctrine.

Revolution is glorified by intellectuals, apotheosized by poets, sanctified by visionaries, and bled white by politicians.

Intellectuals never sound more foolish than when posing as the last civilised man.

But, of course only morons would ever think or speak of themselves as intellectuals. That's why they all look so sad.

I think that intellectuals who end up in hell will have to read page proofs and check indexes there.

There's a lot going on in the world that's very disturbing: rewriting the Holocaust; pseudo-historians rewriting history itself. And we're dealing with a terrorist mentality that involves whole nations.

I've always had a propensity for getting the cursive down pretty well. What it evolved into was my pseudo-waitressing job when I was auditioning. I didn't wait tables. I did calligraphy for the invitations for, like, Robin Thicke and Paula Patton's wedding.

Racism is a belief system. It was assembled over centuries from many component parts - bits of biblical scripture, the propaganda of the slave-owning lobby and the pseudo-science of academics working in universities in Europe and America.

There is a certain category of fool-the overeducated, the academic, the journalist, the newspaper reader, the mechanistic scientist, the pseudo-empiricist, those endowed with what I call epistemic arrogance, this wonderful ability to discount what they did not see, the unobserved.

It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.

Psychology more than any other science has had its pseudo-scientific no less than its scientific period.

I stayed with them for about a year up there and, at night, worked over in Long Island at a club called The High Hat Club which was like a pseudo jazz / blues place.

After learning the language and culture of the Chinese people, these Jesuits began to establish contacts with the young intellectuals of the country.

There's something I believe wholeheartedly: Cynicism is the true refuge of the pseudo-intellectual, .. Cynicism is easy. Joy is an extremely advanced spiritual and intellectual tenet.

Telly never has any smart, amusing intellectuals living on a council estate.

The last thing we need are more pointy-headed intellectuals running the government.

Screaming racism is the last refuge of leftist intellectuals who've completely lost their mojo.

Manhattan was the capital of the twentieth century for black writers, artists, and intellectuals as much as it was for their white counterparts.

With intellectuals, moral thought is often less a tonic that quickens ethical action than a narcotic that deadens it.

France is an idea, not a territory. They pay more attention to intellectuals here; they give artists and writers the feeling they're valued.

It is important that the Muslim leaders, scholars, and intellectuals are much more vocal and explain what Islam is.

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

Without doubt cats are intellectuals who have been, by some mysterious decree of Providence, deprived of the comfort of the word.

I strongly discourage any intellectuals, regardless of race, from speaking on matters for which they have limited or no expertise.

Not even anthropologists or intellectuals, no matter how many books they have, can find out all our secrets.

We, as conservative intellectuals, should not be in the business of making excuses for bad parliamentary decisions by Republican leaders in Congress.

Along with all else, Sandman is a comic strip for intellectuals, and I say it's about time.

Any belief that does not command the one who holds it is not a real belief; it is a pseudo belief only.

Television turned out to be exactly as bad as the most irritating and pedantic intellectuals of the '50s said it was going to be.

England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality.

Intellectuals incline to be individualists, or even independents, are not team conscious and tend to regard obedience as a surrender of personality.