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Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.
Albert Einstein
Brainy
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Prevent
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Solve
'Capitalism' is a dirty word for many intellectuals, but there are a number of studies showing that open economies and free trade are negatively correlated with genocide and war.
Steven Pinker
War
,
Genocide
,
Dirty
Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.
Theodor Adorno
Intelligence
,
Advice
,
No-One
Authority has to exist before it can be limited, and it is authority that is in scarce supply in those modernizing countries where government is at the mercy of alienated intellectuals, rambunctious colonels, and rioting students.
Ferdinand Marcos
Before
,
Limited
,
Rioting
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
Marcel Proust
Intelligence
,
Simple Way
In the 1970s, many intellectuals had become political radicals. Marxism was correct, liberalism was for wimps, and Marx had pronounced that 'the ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.'
Steven Pinker
Liberalism
,
Marxism
,
Wimps
I think I'll always be a better playwright than a pundit, but I believe that writers should be public intellectuals and that theater, even more than film, is a place of public debate.
Tony Kushner
Think
,
Always
,
I Think
We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense.
Samuel Fuller
Too
,
Use
,
Common
Some people spend their time reasoning and thinking out everything, and so anything that cannot be fully understood, they will not accept. We call these people 'intellectuals.'
Mother Angelica
Will
,
Some
,
Reasoning
I know I've got a degree. Why does that mean I have to spend my life with intellectuals? I've got a lifesaving certificate but I don't spend my evenings diving for a rubber brick with my pyjamas on.
Victoria Wood
My Life
,
Degree
,
Evenings
Revolution is glorified by intellectuals, apotheosized by poets, sanctified by visionaries, and bled white by politicians.
Ameen Rihani
White
,
Sanctified
,
Bled
My parents divorced. There was the usual awkward business of going between them, but I was mostly with my mother. She remarried to a Greek painter Nico Ghika, so we were always around artists and intellectuals.
Jacob Rothschild
Always
,
Greek
,
Mostly
Visit a typical science classroom and you will discover far more than empirical facts being taught. The dominant worldview among scientific intellectuals is evolutionary naturalism, which holds that humans are essentially biochemical machines.
Nancy Pearcey
Facts
,
Empirical
,
Scientific
Aesthetes have it all over intellectuals in one very important respect: You'll rarely catch us hustling anyone off to the nearest guillotine. We're too busy trying to make the world more beautiful. Our hands are stained with ink and paint, not blood.
Terry Teachout
Hands
,
Stained
,
Very
Complex astronomical instruments like the Antikythera Mechanism and the Nebra Sky Disk were made by Pagans. Our Pagan intellectual heritage includes poets and scientists and literary intellectuals of every kind, especially including those who wrote some of the most important and influential books in all of Western history.
Brendan Myers
Some
,
Astronomical
,
Literary
How often do you see young actors playing scholars? Or striving to be intellectuals, you know? It's not that often.
Jurnee Smollett-Bell
Young
,
Striving
,
Often
Every White House has had its intellectuals, but very few presidents have been intellectuals themselves - Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Woodrow Wilson, the list more or less stops there.
Jonathan Raban
Been
,
Very
,
Presidents
Intellectuals are too sentimental for me.
Margaret Anderson
Intelligence
,
Me
,
Too
I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor.
Steven Pinker
Think
,
I Think
,
Kind
It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.
Sam Harris
Reason
,
Other
,
Contest
I believe that everybody has the right to view his or her own body as a palette. However, I think intellectuals should at least try to be role models.
Camille Paglia
Think
,
However
,
Models
I'm not one of those James Joyce intellectuals who can stand back and look at the whole edifice... It was a slow process for me to just crawl out of it, like a snake leaving his skin behind.
Frank McCourt
Snake
,
Behind
,
James
My wife and I, unlike many intellectuals, spent five years working on assembly lines. We came to fully understand the criticisms of the industrial age, in which you are an appendage of a machine that sets the pace.
Alvin Toffler
Years
,
Assembly
,
Unlike
Venezuelan interests are to be defended by Venezuela. The U.S. should defend the interests of the U.S. Where are the U.S. people, where are the intellectuals, who could put limits on their government?
Hugo Chavez
People
,
Could
,
Defended
The British are supposed to be particularly averse to intellectuals, a prejudice closely bound up with their dislike of foreigners. Indeed, one important source of this Anglo-Saxon distaste for highbrows and eggheads was the French revolution, which was seen as an attempt to reconstruct society on the basis of abstract rational principles.
Terry Eagleton
Dislike
,
Foreigners
,
Averse
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.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
Many
,
Recognized
,
Writers
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