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Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them. - Albert Einstein

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them. Albert Einstein

Problems, Brainy, Prevent, Solve, Them

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

Government, Authority, Mercy, Students

'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, Capitalism, Free, Dirty, Trade

Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way. Marcel Proust

Intelligence, Simple, Saying, Way, Like

Most intellectuals today have a phobia of any explanation of the mind that invokes genetics. Steven Pinker

Today, Mind, Genetics, Explanation, Most

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you. Theodor Adorno

Intelligence, Advice, You, No-One

The respected intellectuals are those who conform and serve power interests. Noam Chomsky

Power, Serve, Interests, Who, Respected

The war industry people are very together; they know exactly what they want; they don't even have to talk to each other. The peace industry people are just intellectuals who are very critical of each other... Unless the peace industry is powerful, we're always going to have war. It is as simple as that. Yoko Ono

War, Peace, Simple, Together, People

You go to conferences, and your fellow African intellectuals - and even heads of state - they all say: 'Nigeria is a big disappointment. It is the shame of the African continent.' Wole Soyinka

Disappointment, You, Say, Shame, Big, Go

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

Time, People, Thinking, Accept, Will

I think public intellectuals have a responsibility - to be self-critical on the one hand, to do serious, nuanced work rigorously executed; but to also be able to get off those perches and out of those ivory towers and speak to the real people who make decisions; to speak truth to power and the powerless with lucidity and eloquence. Michael Eric Dyson

Work, Truth, Power, Responsibility, Real

Dissident intellectuals aren't all beautiful. Noam Chomsky

Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions. Noam Chomsky

Hidden, Actions, Intentions, Position

Beekeeping is farming for intellectuals. Sue Hubbell

We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense. Samuel Fuller

Common Sense, Afraid, Sense, Common, Who

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

Faith, Time, Reason, Public, Other

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

Society, Revolution, Important, Dislike

The people on my mum's side of the family are atheist intellectuals who are ueber-proper. My dad's side of the family are missionaries who are more comfortable sitting around in sweatpants than they are in a five-star restaurant. But those two influences converged in my life. Evangeline Lilly

Family, Life, People, My Life, Sitting

I allowed myself to be taken in by the intellectuals. I believed too much in the Polish intellectuals and followed their advice. Lech Walesa

Myself, Advice, Too Much, Too, Much

The Right likes to think that intellectuals and academics like Allan Bloom and Dinesh D'Souza spurred the explosive growth of movement conservatism in the 1980s and 1990s, when it was actually mostly Rush Limbaugh. Alex Pareene

Growth, Think, Bloom, Right, Movement

The smaller a group, the easier it is for more people to argue and enter into discussions. The U.S. is vast. It's too large. The intellectuals hide out in enclaves, in big cities or universities, like a bunch of chickens hiding from a fox. Elfriede Jelinek

People, Group, Hide, Fox, Chickens, More

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

Business, Decisions, Excuses, Republican

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

Learning, Culture, People, Language

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

White, House, White House, More, Been

Instrumental music is nonverbal and thus radically ambiguous. It doesn't lend itself to what might be called content-oriented analysis, though plenty of intellectuals have tried to analyze it in precisely that way. Terry Teachout

Music, Way, Analysis, Tried, Though

Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals. Edmund Wilson

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