“ Ideally, the pursuit of truth is said to be at the heart of the intellectual's business, but this credits his business too much and not quite enough. As with the pursuit of happiness, the pursuit of t… Richard Hofstadter
“ Life, it has been agreed by everyone whose opinion is worth consulting, is the only fit subject for novelist or biographer; life, the same authorities have decided, has nothing whatever to do with sit… Virginia Woolf
“ 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 hav… Richard Hofstadter
“ Our big mistake in modern intellectualism is first and foremost its lack of nuance. We have made science synonymous with atheism - a presupposed conception and yet, another means to non sequiturs - an… Criss Jami
“ In every country the intellectual class is the most influential class. This is the class which can foresee advice and lead. In no country does the mass of the people live the life for intelligent thou… B.R. Ambedkar
“ All this is the more maddening, as Edward Shils has pointed out, in a populistic culture which has always set a premium on government by the common man and through the common judgement and which belie… Richard Hofstadter
“ Some may say that the British are obsessed with class difference and that knowing your apostrophes is a way of belittling the uneducated. To which accusation, I say (mainly), 'Pah!' How can it be a ma… Lynne Truss
“ Human cultures construct an enormous variety of environments through language, technology, and institutions. We are born in and die in these systems of symbols and imagination. William E. Paden
“ Don't believe those lies about intellectual people. They're only written to soothe the majority. E. M. Forster
“ People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant. Helen Keller
“ To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and to acquire the habit of approaching and grasping an individual case from all… Friedrich Nietzsche
“ Reading . . . is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual. Jorge Luis Borges
“ A god that can be reduced to what reason can cope with is not a God that can be worshiped. Alister E. McGrath
“ I went on writing reviews for the newspaper, and critical articles crying out for a different approach to culture, as even the most inattentive reader could hardly fail to notice if he scratched the s… Roberto Bolaño
“ The gap (between intellectuals and politicians) divides writing hands, talking heads and thinking minds of this country into two sections. One section flaunts academic achievements to make up for shor… Mohammad Badrul Ahsan
“ More personally, my intellect is a stumbling block to much that makes life worth living: laughter, love; a wiling acceptance of being created. The rational intellect doesn't have a great deal to do wi… Madeleine L'Engle
“ Why are poets so apt to choose their mates, not for any similarity of poetic endowment, but for qualities which might make the happiness of the rudest handicraftsman as well as that of the ideal craft… Nathaniel Hawthorne
