Intellectuals Quotes for Whatsapp and Facebook Status
The noble temptation to see too much in everything.
G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) British author
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955) German-American theoretical physicist
And still they gaz’d, and still the wonder grew, That one small head could carry all he knew.
Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774) Anglo-Irish author
Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946)
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched.
Albert Camus (1913-1960) French writer
Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly.
Mao Zedong (1893-1976) founder of the People’s Republic of China on intellectuals
To the man-in-the-street, who, I’m sorry to say, Is a keen observer of life, The word “Intellectual” suggests straight away. A man who’s untrue to his wife.
W. H. Auden (1907-1973) Anglo-American poet
An intellectual is a man who doesn’t know how to park a bike.
Spiro Agnew (b. 1918)
A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.
J. Brander Matthews (1852-1929) American essayist, critic
Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they are so often patsies for the ruling classes in nineteenth-century France and England, or twentieth-century Russia and America.
Lillian Hellman (1907-1964) American playwright
A new word ending in “ism” that no one else knew was for him a gift of the gods.
PioBaroja (1872-1956) Spanish novelist, essayist
The good are so harsh to the clever, The clever so rude to the good!
Elizabeth Wordsworth (1840-1932) British educator
Intellectuals are the most intolerant of all people.
Paul Durcan (b. 1944) Irish poet
For all your answers are great and excellent; and which a man can hardly understand.
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