Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

Albert Einstein

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Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them. - Albert Einstein

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them. Albert Einstein

Brainy, Prevent, 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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