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In the most secret heart of every intellectual ... there lies hidden ... the hope of power, the desi...

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We've no use for intellectuals in this outfit. What we need is chimpanzees. Let me give you a word o...

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There are few genuine conservatives within the U.S. political system, and it is a sign of the intell...

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Respectable opinion would never consider an assessment of the Reagan Doctrine or earlier exercises i...

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The man of action has the present, but the thinker controls the future.

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.The Essential Holmes: Selections from the Letters

Ideally, the pursuit of truth is said to be at the heart of the intellectual's business, but this cr...

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If mind is seen not as a threat but as a guide to emotion, if intellect is seen neither as a guarant...

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To those who suspect that intellect is a subversive force in society, it will not do to reply that i...

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Even intellectuals should have learned by now that objective rationality is not the default position...

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Roy Blount, Jr.Long Time Leaving: Dispatches from Up South

Intellect is not wisdom.

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Thomas SowellIntellectuals and Society

What is fascinating is that it is physical. You know, that's one thing about intellectuals, they've ...

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An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I lik...

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The communist regime in the East could stand and grow due to the enthusiastic support from an enormo...

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Those intellectuals are our natural enemies; the only kind who are worth anything are the musicians ...

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To leave town, and the struggle and the swim of life, and go and hide yourself in a farmhouse is not...

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The popular element "feels" but does not always know or understand; the intellectual element "knows"...

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My favourite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelli

During the Bosnian war in the late 1990s, I spent several days traveling around the country with Sus...

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One minute. You know nothing about him. He probably has his own joys and interests- wife, children, ...

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Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its ...

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If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's n...

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Two classes of people make up the world: those who have found God, and those who are looking for Him...

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I grew up in an atmosphere tinged with militarism, and afterwards I spent five boring years within t...

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